Notes on production AI, agentic systems, and what I am building.
Private Property - No Trespassing On June 12, 2026, SpaceX went public on the Nasdaq. The stock opened at $150, eleven percent above its IPO price, which put the company past $2 trillion and made the offering the largest in history. It raised $75 billion, more than double the Saudi Aramco listing that had held the record since 2019. By the close, Elon Musk was the world’s first trillionaire. His…
There’s a conversation happening right now, and depending on which room you’re in, it sounds completely different. In one room, engineers are running twelve agents in parallel and complaining about their laptop running out of memory. In another, engineers are insisting that every line of a PR be read by a human or it doesn’t ship. On Hacker News, the comment section under any AI coding post feels…
I’ve been building a lot of side projects lately, with the help of agents. All these side projects that I never had the time for, suddenly, are a just a few prompts away from being a reality. This weekend I was working on a tool for my wife, who’s a social media content creator, and I decided to optimize my iteration cycle a bit. The result: 3:02 PM. My wife sends a piece of feedback through a…
I work in AI-driven advertising. Specifically, I’m a Generative AI Engineer at Liftoff, a mobile ad-tech company. I mention this because the thing I’m about to describe isn’t quite a prediction - It already happened in my industry years ago, and now it’s happening in yours. I’m calling it the AI Flippening: the point where AI stops being a tool you direct and starts being the system that directs…
On the topic of immigration in Canada, free speech, the rise of populism.
A blog post on AI's Eyes Only
A blog post on MCP Missing UI
A blog post on AI tools for writing blog posts
A blog post on local LLM models, focusing on the Qwen 32B model and it's limitations
A blog post on what it means to be a GenAI Engineer
What does your email address say about you?
A short blog post surveying the current state of music generation AI models
Building an AI audiogen VST and AU plugin