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Essays about Tech & the Future
My thoughts on the craft of building AI products, thinking about the future, and being optimistic about our technological progress.
August 2026
From biological intelligence to artificial intelligence: a brain for hire
AIHow intelligence went from biology to silicon, and why today's large language models are best understood as a brain you can hire.
August 2026
The art of AI engineering — harnessing the power of AI for reliable use — Part I
AIAI engineering is building reliable products on top of pre-trained models: knowing when to hire the brain, and evaluating it honestly.
September 2026
The art of AI engineering — harnessing the power of AI for reliable use — Part II
AIThe model is one piece. The scaffolding around it, plus security, observability and continuous improvement, is what makes it reliable in production.
September 2026
Case study: AI-powered travel RAG system — what I learned from AI engineering
AIPlanned for 16 weeks, public in three: a ruthless MVP, what was cut or deferred and why, and why the model was the easiest part.
- RAG pipeline design: from raw PDFs to grounded answers
- Evaluation: building a harness that measures RAG quality reliably
- Provider economics: why reserved capacity, not price per token, drives cost and fit
- Observability: instrumenting an AI application across four tools
- Regulatory compliance: mapping GDPR and the EU AI Act onto a RAG system
September 2026
Traditional ML in practice: predicting follow-on funding from Crunchbase data
AIA step-by-step ML project: predicting which startups raise again within two years, from EDA and label design to a model whose top decile raises again at 69%.
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Mastering the art of context engineering — context is all you need
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Agent swarms — comparing orchestration approaches: performance, cost, monitoring, and risks
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Different inference techniques — the art of serving intelligence
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Training an LLM model from scratch — a learning project
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Distillation technique — how to achieve more with less, a cost-effective way of training AI models
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LLM-powered automation tool — coding & search
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Multimodal models — what does it take to build them
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In-depth analysis: inside a reasoning model
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Fine-tuning and the art of working with open-weight models
AISoonJuly 2026
The importance of our climate in history of human civilisation
Climate changeClimate has shaped where and how human civilisation grew, which is why a changing climate matters so much for our future.
July 2026
The search for clean energy
Climate changeHumanity has been decarbonising its energy for centuries. Nuclear, renewables and hydrogen are how we could finish the job.
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The future of food — The 4th agricultural revolution
Climate changeSoonUpcoming
Protecting & developing our cities
Climate changeSoonUpcoming
Bringing back biodiversity
Climate changeSoon