A Sample ML Engineering Project

Founder Virtues, per the Thiel Fellowship

How much is a pension worth?

Engineering Buy-in

Reverse-engineering Firestore calls to export personal data

The Websocket Deploy Bug

Google Gemini is the worst LLM API

LLM Fine-tuning Notes (Apr 2025)

Love your competitors

Unprofitable growth & stacked S-curves

How I use AI (early 2025)

Unusual $/MTok numbers

Does Protein Supplementation Alone Help? (n=1)

Using Clerk with Firestore

Reading List: Hamming Answers

8,000 Easy Lumens For The Winter

Outside Game, Inside Game

Reading List: Liberal Capitalism

On LLCs & corporations

Evaluating stock option offers

The Firestore vulnerability found in Arc is likely widespread

Serverless fire-and-forget subrequests

LLM Costs per MTok

Replicate & Fly cold-start latency

Embedding search latency

Building with the Cloudflare Stack

Equity comp induces a desirable correlation between stock price and employee retention

Inflation adjustment is often misleading

Proxying LLMs via Vercel is expensive

When should you add Redis to Postgres?