The Human Behind the Terminal

Ten-plus years building AI/ML systems that had to survive contact with production — not demos, not slide decks. Pipelines that ran at 3 a.m.

and had to be right by 9.

Certified AI/ML specialist on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

Graduate degree, University of Michigan. Go Blue.

None of that is why you should listen to me. The 3 a.m. pipelines are.

Then came the layoff. Then the illness. Then the long stretch at the bottom, where the résumé stops mattering and you find out what you actually know.

This terminal is what came out the other side.

WHAT I ACTUALLY DO

Build AI/ML systems, break them, then write down

exactly what broke. Teach the parts of AI that

survive contact with reality.

Call out the theater — out loud, in public,

with receipts.

WHY THIS EXISTS

The open web is drowning in people who wrapped

somebody else's API and called themselves

an AI company.

That isn't engineering. That's a costume.

I'm not here to sell you a course on prompting.

I'm here to show you the math, the dataset, and

the failure mode — and to make fun of

everything in between.

All models are wrong. Some are useful.

I try to ship the useful ones.