Field notes from shipping the real thing.
Articles, talks, and platform write-ups. Honest about what worked, why, and the boring parts that made it stick.
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'Forward Deployed Engineer' Is the Latest Hot Title in AI. 'Outcome Engineer' Is All You Need.
Prompt engineer, then applied AI architect, now forward deployed engineer. The hot AI title keeps changing. The one that never goes stale names the result, not the fashion: the outcome engineer. Why buyers should hire the outcome, not the badge.
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Your AI Needs a Brain, Not a Better Model
A map of the 12 memory and RAG tools building the AI brain layer. Why temporal knowledge graphs beat vector-only RAG, and how to pick the right stack for your agents in production.
- 10 Apr 2026
Towards AI I built an AI outbound agent. Here's what actually worked.
Honest write-up of building the AI sales agent. What moved the metrics, what didn't, and the surprising amount of plumbing under a working agent.
- 14 Jun 2025
TowardsDev I built a stock-market analyst using AI and low-code in a weekend
The weekend build behind PulseView: AI agents that pair trading signals with the reasoning behind them. n8n for workflow, Tavily for web search, a custom market-data pipeline, shipped end to end in a weekend.
- 11 Apr 2025
Substack Agentic AI: Simple ReAct Agent
A no-magic walkthrough of building a ReAct agent from scratch. The prompt loop, the tool calls, and where this pattern breaks in production.
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Java Annotations: A Comprehensive Guide
A focused guide to Java Annotations. Definition, creation, and usage through practical examples. Covers built-in annotations, custom annotation design, reflection techniques, and best practices.
- 12 Nov 2024TowardsDev
Visualising AI embeddings with a heatmap
A small but useful technique for understanding what your embedding model actually clusters together, and where it fails silently.
- 22 Aug 2024Medium
The blueprint for building high-impact teams
Six years of building engineering teams that ship. What actually compounds. Less about process, more about hiring for craft and curiosity.
- 4 Jun 2024Medium
High-performance, scalable URL shortener
Reference architecture and Terraform for a URL shortener that scales. Covers the hot-path cache, write fan-out, and the boring constraints that matter.
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AI and creativity
Talk at Front Conference on what AI changes about creative work, and what it does not.
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From infinite possibilities to finite results
Talk at AI for the Rest of Us (UK). Narrowing AI ambition down to one shippable thing.
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Microfrontends: revolutionising frontend architecture
Developer Week USA. The case for microfrontends from someone who shipped them at Beekeeper for millions of users.
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From idea to product
Dev Innovation Summit USA. The path from a vague idea to a customer-facing product, told via real ship-or-cut decisions.
- 21 Nov 2018
AWS Public Sector EPFL designs robots through artificial evolution
AWS Public Sector feature on the Robogen platform. Co-evolving robot bodies and brains via genetic algorithms, parallelised on AWS.
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