Blog

Writing about systems, shipping, and the little decisions that shape trust.

Published notes on technical growth, operating reliable systems, and what I learn while building software that needs to hold up over time.

Published pieces with practical context instead of vague takeaways.

Expect writeups on homelab work, frontend details, debugging, and the tradeoffs that only appear after real implementation.

Read in any order, but the most recent posts are usually the clearest snapshot of what I am learning right now.

AIMarch 17, 20263 min read

Optimizing AI Usage

As part of this approach is embracing AI as a manager because as I grow in my IT journey, I'll need to get better and better at approaching things from a managerial POV while understanding the POV of a "grunt". I'm hoping this makes me better at delivering high quality work efficiently.

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AIMarch 13, 20262 min read

AI "Master" prompts

I'm currently playing around with a merged master prompt created by having opus 4.6 merge some agency agents prompts with my own master prompts. This has been tremendously useful for having higher quality code.

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AIMarch 8, 20262 min read

Development with GPT 5.4

I just finished rewriting my blog site with openai's new model GPT 5.4 through opencode with github copilot. The results are...wow. To have this level of code delivered for a very low usage of copilot's premium request for the month is crazy to see.

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