Your AI Needs a Brain, Not a Better Model
A map of the 14 memory, retrieval and knowledge 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.
Blog
Field notes from building AI systems and investing my own money. Long posts, short notes, and pieces I published elsewhere.
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Forward Deployed Engineer Is the Title. Outcome Engineer Is the Job.
Forward deployed engineer is the hottest title in AI. If you want it, aim at the part that never goes stale: owning the outcome. What the title means, why it got hot, and what every posting actually asks for.
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Box spread in one page
The short version of my box-spread post: what it is, when it beats a margin loan, and the one variable that decides.
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Connect Salesforce to Claude Code in 10 Minutes
A friendly, click-by-click guide to wire Salesforce into Claude Code as an MCP server, so your terminal can read and reason over your CRM data.
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Box Spread as a Low-Interest Loan
How a box spread turns index options into a near risk-free loan: cheap enough to beat a margin loan, protect your portfolio ROI, or replace debt like a car lease. Includes a rate calculator.
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Towards AI Drafted, not sent: how I built the second half of an AI outbound agent
A rep told me I had built half the product. So the agent now drafts the full 10-touch sequence and drops it into Outreach, ready for the rep to review and send. Nothing goes out on its own.
- External 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.
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Substack RAG is broken: we need connected entities, not isolated chunks
Why text chunking destroys the context that matters most.
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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.
- External 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.
- External TowardsDev
Visualizing AI: understanding embeddings with heatmaps
A small but useful technique for understanding what your embedding model actually clusters together, and where it fails silently.
- External Medium
The blueprint for building high-impact teams: hiring remote engineers
A step-by-step guide to hiring remote software engineers, starting with defining the position and the ideal candidate.
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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.
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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.