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Business / EducationI Built an AI Tutor for My Niece's Algebra Class. Her Teacher Asked for the Link.
My niece kept getting stuck on quadratics. I built a Socratic-method tutor that never just gives the answer. Her grade w
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Business / Professional ServicesWhat the Big Four Did to Their AI Economics in 2025, and Why Mid-Tier Firms Are Repricing
The Big Four accounting and advisory firms collectively spent an estimated $2.8 billion on AI infrastructure in 2025, su
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Technology / Harness EngineeringStructured Outputs vs. Function Calling vs. JSON Mode: A Benchmark With Actual Production Data
I had three ways to get structured output from an LLM. I had actual production data to test against. I benchmarked all t
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Technology / Harness EngineeringStop Calling It Prompt Engineering. Call It What It Is: Interface Design.
A health-tech team shipped an AI clinical-note summarizer with a plaintext prompt exposed directly to clinicians; daily
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Business / Energy & UtilitiesFrom Meter Readers to Model Stewards: A Generation of Field Workers in Transition
The last utility meter reader in her district retired in February, and the job that nominally replaced hers pays 22% les
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Business / Technology & TelecomHere Is What Happened When I Let an Agent Triage My Startup's Tier-1 Support Queue for a Week
I let an agent handle Tier-1 support for 7 days. It resolved 64% of tickets without escalation. It also almost promised
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Technology / AI EngineeringI Built a Multi-Agent System With LangGraph in a Weekend. Here Is What Broke and What Held.
I rebuilt a workflow I had been running manually for six months as a three-agent LangGraph system. Two of the three agen
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Business / Retail & E-CommerceWhen the Algorithm Schedules Your Life: Warehouse Workers and the AI Shift-Optimizer
AI workforce-management systems are optimizing retail and warehouse shifts down to the fifteen-minute block, and for the
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Business / Manufacturing & IndustrialPredictive Maintenance Has Finally Outgrown the Pilot. The Numbers Are Starting to Justify Corporate Rollout.
Predictive maintenance AI has been a perennial pilot candidate since 2018, advancing to board approval at only a handful
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Technology / Models & BenchmarksThe MMLU Trap: Why Your Benchmark-Topping Model Is Failing in Production
A Fortune 100 insurer selected a model ranked first on MMLU for an adjudication assistant, and within six weeks p95 late
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Business / HealthcareThe AI Intake Form That Stopped Patients Ghosting: A 48-Hour Build Log
Every clinic I have ever been to has the same pre-appointment form and the same 28% ghost rate. I rebuilt it with a conv
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Business / Financial ServicesThe Unit-Economics Case for Embedded AI in Commercial Lending
Commercial lenders that deployed AI-augmented underwriting in 2025 are reporting fully-loaded cost per file of $3.40 aga
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