Building semantic search over PubMed end to end: ingestion, training experiments, serving, monitoring, and an MCP server your own AI assistant can use. What each piece does, and the tradeoffs that keep it running for free.
How a side project became a three-month engineering binge. Django, HTMX, and 875 commits later.
I contributed three new debate matchups to Silicon Symposium, a project that assigns philosophers to local LLMs and lets them go at it. Aquinas vs Hume on God. Early vs late Wittgenstein on language. Aristotle vs Nietzsche on ethics.
The companies building AI are recapitulating debates Aristotle was having. He got the closest to an answer.
An AI agent attacked an open source maintainer by name after he rejected its code. The incident is small, but what it reveals about our systems of trust is not.
A quick intro — what I've been working on, where I'm headed, and why I made this site.