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Real-world engineering, systems thinking, and leadership from the field.
A malicious litellm package hit PyPI. I needed to know if our production systems were compromised. Claude Code figured it out in 5 minutes. The same investigation would've taken me hours.
I kept running out of Claude sessions without realizing it. So I built a menu bar app to track them. The whole thing was vibe coded with Claude Code itself.
AI can generate code at incredible speed, but the defining engineering skill now is careful review, judgment, and accountability at scale.
How Infrastructure as Code transformed a startup burning $1500/month on vague cloud infrastructure into a lean, scalable operation with 86% cost reduction and 98% faster deployments.
148,706 km of track. 1.2 million workers. And the primary protection against being hit by a train is a person holding a flag. I went to the Southern Railway to understand this problem firsthand — here's what the data and the workers told me.
How a casual book recommendation during Covid changed my relationship with money, helped me survive a layoff, and gave me the courage to become a founder.
Leaving a stable career to pursue entrepreneurship, government projects, and hard-earned lessons about building, selling, and surviving.