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Notes on software engineering, cloud data pipelines, and getting real work out of AI tools.
- September 28, 20265 minutesArtificial Intelligence
Thinking About AI Workflows Like Data Pipelines
The scarce resource in an AI workflow isn't information. It's useful context. Here's how the medallion architecture and fan-out / fan-in shape how I think about AI work.
Series: AI & Engineering
aidata-engineeringagentscontext-management - September 27, 20269 minutesArtificial Intelligence
How I Start Each Day With Claude Code
My day planning went from pasting ChatGPT output into Todoist to a Claude Code skill. The first version took about 22 minutes, and the rebuild takes about 8, with evals to keep it from breaking.
Series: AI & Engineering
aiclaude-codeproductivityevals - September 24, 20264 minutesArtificial Intelligence
Keeping My Claude and Codex Usage in the Menu Bar
I moved from the terminal to the desktop apps and lost my usage status line, so I put Claude and Codex usage in the menu bar - side by side.
Series: AI & Engineering
aiclaude-codecodexdeveloper-toolsswift - May 9, 20257 minutesArtificial IntelligenceFeatured
Chain of Thought Reasoning: How to Make AI Think
Learn how Chain of Thought prompting helps AI models reason through complex problems step by step, improving accuracy on math, logic, and multi-step tasks.
Series: AI & Engineering
aiprompt-engineeringbest-practicesproductivity - April 29, 20257 minutesArtificial IntelligenceFeatured
How I Use ChatGPT and Todoist to Plan My Day in Under 10 Minutes
How I use ChatGPT and Todoist together to plan my day in under 10 minutes - complete with prompt setup, examples, and copy-ready syntax.
Series: AI & Engineering
aiprompt-engineeringbest-practicesproductivity - April 8, 20255 minutesArtificial Intelligence
Keep Your AI Assistant Focused: A Simple Prompting Trick to Reduce Drift
Discover how Objective Reiteration can keep your AI conversations focused and productive by preventing context drift in long interactions.
Series: AI & Engineering
aiprompt-engineeringbest-practicesproductivity - April 6, 20255 minutesArtificial Intelligence
ROLE - An Effective Prompt Engineering Technique I Use Every Day
A practical guide to the ROLE prompting technique - define the Role, Objective, Limitations, and Examples to get more focused, useful responses from AI models.
Series: AI & Engineering
aiprompt-engineeringbest-practicesproductivity - March 30, 202515 minutesYear in Review
2024 Retrospective
2024 brought major life changes: welcoming daughter Tiffany, transitioning to a new role at Microsoft, completing home renovations, and exploring AI and theology.
Series: Annual Retrospectives
careerfamilyhome-improvementaitheology - March 26, 202412 minutesYear in Review
2023 Retrospective
Major life updates from 2022-2023: joining Microsoft, welcoming a new dog and baby, launching a woodworking channel, and planning for 2024.
Series: Annual Retrospectives
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