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Thoughts & Essays
Technical deep-dives, ideas, and perspectives on engineering and AI.
Sovereign architect part 2: From Philosophy to Protocol
Part 2 of 2 — The Sovereign Architect Part 1 laid out what I believe: engineering is applied philosophy, and the job is to survive human irrationality, se...
8 min
Sovereign architect part 1: Engineering Is Applied Philosophy
Part 1 of 2 — The Sovereign Architect "Engineering is applied philosophy. We solve human realities under irrationality, selfishness, and chaos: not just s...
9 min
Your Model Isn't a Product Until It's an API: Why AI Engineers Need Backend Skills
A finetuned model sitting in a Jupyter notebook has done nothing for anyone yet. It has no users, no uptime, no way to be called by another system. The momen...
4 min
We Cannot Win the Frontier AI Race: Here Is the Race Africa Can Win
In short: Building a frontier AI model to rival GPT, Gemini, or Claude costs hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in compute alone, plus energy infras...
12 min