Writing

Essays and book notes on building AI products, risk, and the judgment that carries over from one to the other.

• Book notes·Jun 2026

  Book notes: the RAG chapter of AI Engineering

  I built retrieval into two products before I could have defined it. What the RAG chapter taught me about the boring half of the system, where most of the quality lives.

• Essay·May 2026

  What a risk desk taught me about evaluating AI agents

  The failure modes that matter aren't in the demo. They're in the long tail nobody scripted. A risk operator's lens on shipping agents.

• Book notes·Apr 2026

  Book notes: The Laws of Human Nature

  What Robert Greene gets right about first impressions and the halo effect, and how it shows up when you build products people judge in seconds.