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Thoughts on Engineering

Things I have learned building production AI systems and full-stack products. Written plainly, without filler.

A minimal chat widget open on a developer portfolio site

Open Source9 min readMay 2025

From a Personal Itch to an Open Source Tool: How I Built SageDesk

I noticed a gap on my own portfolio and ended up building an open source RAG-powered support widget that any Next.js or Express app can use in a few minutes.

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AI-generated product composite inside a 3D retail environment

AI Engineering7 min read

Getting Started with gemini-2.5-flash-image: A Practical Guide

A hands-on guide to image generation and compositing with gemini-2.5-flash-image including a compression trick that cuts your input token cost by 90%.

May 2025Read

A terminal window with an AI assistant calling a local developer tool

Developer Tools8 min read

MCP Servers: Giving AI Coding Assistants Real Dev Tools

How a frustrating habit of copy-pasting dev tool outputs into chat led me to build an MCP server, and what the process taught me about how AI assistants actually work.

Jan 2025Read