Intelligence is easy. Staying up is hard. The second half is where the engineering lives.
AI career ecosystem
It charts your next move, grows your craft, shapes your résumé and sends your applications, briefs you every morning, and makes sure you never walk the road alone.
The one I will flex about proudly, loudly, at the smallest excuse anybody gives me.
These are where I stopped being frightened of other people’s data.
Somewhere in here I got strangely good at making paperwork behave.
This is where I learned to like the boring half of the job.
Reasonable proof that I will build almost anything once.
These are the years I spent finding out what actually breaks.
Where I started. I keep them running mostly out of stubbornness.
Clients
Web
Mobile
Edge and API
Services
Auth
Intelligence
Background work
Realtime
Vectors
State
Databases
Cache
Platform
Late, with lofi running low in the background and the house finally quiet. The only decision left is whether to finish fixing the bug or start building the feature the bug just handed me. It is almost never the bug.
GitHubMy apple falling on Newton. Every bug I have fixed and every idea worth having started here. Half the playlist is in languages I do not speak and have never bothered to translate. They say behind every successful man there is a woman. Behind me there is a playlist.
SpotifyMy actual measure of success, and it has nothing to do with revenue. Thirty countries, minimum. Different food, different streets, different people politely confused by my questions. I am not planning it so much as manifesting it, which I am told counts.
When the code stops, this is what kept the company through some genuinely lonely stretches. A Nolan devotee, and happy to defend that at length without being asked. But the watchlist has no borders: every industry, every country, subtitles on, three in the morning, one more.
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