A Forensic Analysis of LLM Math Errors: What ChatGPT Got Wrong in 2023
Dissecting the structural engineering conversations that led to bent steel poles.
Writings
I am current migrating old writings and blog posts to a single place. More will be backfilled soon.
Don't Leave Ash Behind—On Staff Archetypes and the Work Nobody Sees
Have you stayed anywhere for a while? An interviewer asked me that once. It stung—because I knew what they were really asking.
Cognitive RAM, Two Years Later
Two years ago I started treating documentation as cognitive RAM for a stateless AI. The core insight held — but everything around it evolved.
We Stopped the Bleeding (But Didn't Cure the Disease)
An honest postmortem about debugging a Kafka pipeline nobody fully understood, and the gap between stabilization and cure.
Cognitive RAM: How I Learned to Work with a Stateless AI
ChatGPT has no memory. That's not a bug — it's the engineering constraint you design around. Here's what I started doing about it.
LLMs Need Supervision, Not Worship
The AI productivity gap isn't primarily a prompting problem. It's a code review problem.
How ChatGPT Helped Me Bend Steel Poles
I asked ChatGPT to help me engineer a backyard ninja course. It gave me six different answers to the same question — from 44 lbs to 51,857 lbs. I picked the wrong ones. The poles bent.
Cultivating a High Performance Engineering Team
Eight goals a company should aspire towards to unlock their engineering team.