IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS

Journal

Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.

279 articles

15 Feb 2026 · 10 min read

Building an AI Voice Interview Platform: What Actually Worked (and What Didn't)

Lessons from building a real-time AI interviewer with LiveKit, OpenAI Realtime, Gemini Live, and Bedrock Nova. VAD tuning, provider failover, latency budgets, and the things nobody warns you about.

15 Feb 2026 · 9 min read

I Replaced Half My Dev Scripts with Moltbot (And My Workflow Is Better for It)

How I set up Moltbot — the open-source personal AI assistant — to automate code reviews, deployments, monitoring alerts, and daily standups. A practical guide for developers who want AI that actually does things.

01 Feb 2026 · 4 min read

AI Coding Tools: An Honest Review After a Year of Daily Use

I've used Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and other AI tools every day for over a year. Here's what actually saves time, what wastes it, and the productivity trap nobody talks about.

15 Nov 2025 · 3 min read

How I Built an AI Code Review Bot That My Team Actually Uses

I built a GitHub Action that uses Claude to review PRs. The first version was annoying. The current version catches real bugs. Here's the whole journey.

20 Sep 2025 · 4 min read

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I Spent a Weekend Building AI Agents. Most of Them Were Useless.

I experimented with CrewAI and LangGraph to build multi-agent workflows. Some were genuinely useful, some were expensive toys. Here's what I learned.

15 Jun 2025 · 4 min read

Our First RAG System Was Terrible (Here's What We Fixed)

We built a RAG knowledge base. The first version gave wrong answers half the time. Six months of iteration later, it actually works. Here's every lesson.

10 Feb 2025 · 4 min read

I Tried Five Vector Databases. Here's What I'd Actually Use.

We tested ChromaDB, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, and pgvector for our RAG system. Benchmarks, costs, developer experience — and the one I'd pick today.

20 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Setting Up Azure OpenAI for Enterprise: What Nobody Tells You

We integrated Azure OpenAI into a client's enterprise platform. Here's the practical stuff — networking, content filtering, cost surprises, and what the docs don't cover.

08 Jun 2024 · 5 min read

15 Years of .NET: From Web Forms to AI Agents

I started with ASP.NET Web Forms in 2008. Now I'm building AI agents with .NET and Python. A reflection on how the ecosystem changed — and how it didn't.