Articles
Writing on software engineering and technology.
I don’t play any instruments, but now I can compose a full song from scratch
How I turn an idea into lyrics, a song and a music video with generative AI tools, and why it is so much fun.
Your Staff Reads 500 Reports a Minute. You Can Only Handle Five.
WAR ROOM is a real-time strategy game that shows what happens when AI agents take on the reading and the human keeps the deciding, and five lessons about agentic AI that transfer to any operation.
I Built Six AI Copilots for a Fighter Jet
What a browser arcade game taught me about agentic AI, and the pattern I would use anywhere a human has seconds to act.
The Rocket Is a Decoy: What a Launch Control Room Teaches Us About Putting AI Agents to Work
Go/No-Go is a multiplayer launch control room where AI agents and humans share one mission but not every secret, a playable model of how agents should work as a team inside a company.
Six Artworks, Zero Brushes: What Happened When I Asked an AI to Make Art With Code
Six short prompts, six gallery-style prints, and not a single brush stroke: how an AI wrote, rendered, critiqued and rewrote Python programs that compute art from mathematics.
Live Rubric: An AI Model That Cannot Write a Single Word
Jev returns typed answers instead of prose, fast and cheap enough to re-score fifteen dimensions on every typing pause — so I built Live Rubric to show what that makes possible.
Your Annual Review Shouldn't Be a Memory Test
I kept scrambling to remember a year of work at review time, so I scheduled an AI agent to gather it from email, calendar, chat, documents and code — with a source cited for every claim.
Conduct Risk Radar: The Most Important Design Decision Was Keeping the AI Out of the Decision
How an AI system surfaces emerging patterns in public bank complaint data by letting statistics find the anomalies, confining the model to explaining them, and making a human commit first.
Floorcraft: A Floor Plan You Can Talk To, Where the AI Never Draws
How Floorcraft turns a sentence into a real, editable, dimensioned floor plan by letting the model read intent while a deterministic solver owns the geometry.
From Lyrics and a Song to a Finished Lyric Video, Without Touching an Editor
How an open-source pipeline turns a lyrics file and an audio track into a complete lyric video: story inference, syllable-level alignment, AI art per scene, and incremental re-rendering.
Terra Pulse: Turning Earth’s Signals into Evidence-Aware Intelligence
How Terra Pulse turns fragmented public Earth data into evidence-aware intelligence with provenance, deterministic scoring, uncertainty, and AI explanations.
I Didn’t Want Another AI Chatbot. I Wanted to Understand How AI Teams Work.
A practical look at multi-agent orchestration: coordinating specialized AI agents with contracts, dependencies, validation, observability, and human oversight.
What Building a Game Taught Me About Real-Time Systems, Latency, and Product Evolution
What building a real-time multiplayer browser game taught me about latency, authoritative state, WebSockets, client prediction, and product iteration.
Designing a Vendor-Agnostic Enterprise Architecture
How to modernize an established enterprise without allowing vendors to own your domain logic, data model, or operational muscle memory.
How to price your product
Airline revenue management is a practical lesson in pricing scarce, perishable inventory — and a pattern that applies far beyond airplanes.