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Notes on optimization, AI-assisted building, and the machinery underneath both — written by a physicist who ships production systems for a living.
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On careers · Advice
Through the Looking Glass
Most career advice is autobiography with the rough pieces sanded off. Three terrible ideas, and what each one looks like reflected back.
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Jul 2026
9 min On living · Optimization More or Less A physicist's framework for changing your life — feel the local slope, take one small step downhill, and repeat. Why the modest algorithm beats the wholesale transformation, and the rare moment it doesn't. → -
Apr 2026
8 min On building · AI-assisted engineering Vibe DevOps: the boring parts that make it work The unglamorous habits — real evals, tests, contracts at the seams — that keep AI-assisted building from collapsing into throwaway spaghetti. Eight rules I actually use. → -
Feb 2026
5 min On AI · Markets Cheap or expensive is the wrong question DeepSeek at $0.14 a million tokens and $160 for an hour of a frontier model are two points on the same curve — not an argument about whether AI is cheap. → -
Aug 2025
6 min On AI · Forecasting The one AI metric that matters: H₅₀ The longest task an agent completes reliably — and why the curve is steeper than your roadmap assumes. → -
2025
6 min On careers · Physics What I wish I knew before a Physics PhD The economics, the opportunity cost, and the unstructured time that paid off more than the degree. →
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