Openai
6 min read
The LLM JSON Mode Bug That Corrupts Your Database: What I Learned Chasing Null Bytes
The first log line that mattered looked like this: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x00 CONTEXT: unnamed portal parameter $3 = '...' It came from a PostgreSQL insert that had worked…
Ai
6 min read
Am I Supposed to Be Afraid of AI, or the People Selling It? A Job-Hunter's Guide to Artificial Intelligence Criticism and the Valuation Bubble
I applied to 419 jobs over eleven months. I kept a spreadsheet, because keeping a spreadsheet was the only part of the process I could control.
Ai
6 min read
AI in Game Development Is Now an Awards Season Strategy — Here's What That Means for Your Resume
Last December I did something small and slightly obsessive. During what the industry calls awards season — the stretch where The Game Awards, the DICE nominations, and the BAFTA shortlists all land…
Ai
6 min read
Is Your AI Productivity Gain Real, or Are You Just Buying Speed? My Honest Investment Thesis
I run a company of about 140 people, and last spring I watched an AI tool write a compensation memo in my voice — my cadence, my hedges, the little apologetic clause I always put before bad news.
Speech To Text
5 min read
Whisper vs. Vosk vs. the Cloud: Picking the Speech-to-Text Engine for Self-Hosted Voice Assistants
The advice you'll hear in every self-hosted voice thread is: use Whisper. Just point it at OpenAI's model, or run whisper.cpp locally, and you're done.
Ai
6 min read
The AI Productivity Trap: When Faster Thinking Isn't Better Thinking
I read a memo last spring that was better than the one I would have written. It laid out a compensation decision across four teams, weighed the tradeoffs, anticipated the objection our head of ops…
Javascript
11 min read
Functional Composition Is Where Most JavaScript Functional Programming Quietly Falls Apart
I copied the same eight-line pipe() helper into thirty different files before I understood what it actually promised, and what it quietly didn't.
Hiring
5 min read
Generative Biology Is About to Eat Your Org Chart: Which Jobs It Actually Creates
You have read the number by now. Four trillion dollars, the projected annual economic impact of engineered biology over the next decade or two, depending on which report landed in your inbox.
Ai
4 min read
The Streaming AI Investment Strategy Nobody's Pricing In Before the IPO
The most aggressive AI investment strategy ahead of the streaming platform IPO everyone's circling isn't the streamer, and it isn't the Microsoft position you already hold as your "safe" AI exposure.
Generative Ai
5 min read
Generative AI vs. the Tasting Panel: What Happened When I Let a Model Design a Burger
I gave a model a single instruction — design a beef burger a panel of strangers would rate as well as the one they already love — and then I sat in a fluorescent-lit room while 24 people chewed and…
Enterprise
6 min read
The Sixth Lesson About AI Personalization Infrastructure Nobody Sells You: Your Data Pipeline Is the Product
Eighteen months into a transformation program, a marketing director I worked with showed me a recommendation engine demo that made the room nod. Right product, right customer, right moment.
Ai Reliability
10 min read
The Sixth Lesson of AI-Driven Content Discovery: Your Model Is Only as Good as the Data Nobody Wants to Pay For
A team I worked alongside shipped a support assistant last year that answered 94 percent of test questions correctly in the demo.