José Troche — Articles https://jose-troche.pages.dev Personal site of José Troche — Principal Software Engineer in the Washington, DC Metro Area. Technical articles, projects, research, talks, and videos on cloud, AI, and robotics. en-us Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/conduct-risk-radar/ https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/conduct-risk-radar/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Artificial Intelligence Financial Services Regulatory Compliance Anomaly Detection Data Engineering Model Evaluation 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. https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/floorcraft/ https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/floorcraft/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Artificial Intelligence CAD Computational Geometry Constraint Solvers MCP Cloudflare Workers 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. https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/video-lyrics-generator/ https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/video-lyrics-generator/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Artificial Intelligence Video Production Python ffmpeg Generative Art Pipelines 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. https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/terra-pulse/ https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/terra-pulse/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Earth Intelligence Public Data Data Visualization Geospatial Systems Artificial Intelligence Cloudflare Workers 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. https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/product-forge-ai/ https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/product-forge-ai/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Artificial Intelligence Multi-Agent Systems Workflow Orchestration Product Planning Software Architecture Observability 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. https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/tanks-game/ https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/tanks-game/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Browser Games TypeScript WebSockets Game Development Distributed Systems Preact 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. https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/designing-vendor-agnostic-enterprise-architecture/ https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/designing-vendor-agnostic-enterprise-architecture/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Enterprise Architecture Cloud Architecture Domain-Driven Design Modernization 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. https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/plane-ticket-revenue-management/ https://jose-troche.pages.dev/articles/plane-ticket-revenue-management/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Revenue Management Pricing Data Science Product Strategy