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Notes on AI, software engineering, and the practice of research.
Essays drawn from the space between the lab and the field — what building, teaching, and researching AI actually teach you.
Featured Essay · 2026
From Lab to Field: What Building an AI Platform for Waste Management Taught Me
The distance between a model that works on a benchmark and a system that works in the field, and the engineering judgment it takes to close it.
AIDeploymentField Notes
A PhD, Two Decades of Teaching, and the Gap Between Theory and Deployment
What rigorous research, years in the classroom, and shipping real products each taught me, and where they quietly disagree.
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