Writings

A demand forecasting project where the honest answer was uncomfortable, and how pre-registering the rules kept me from hiding it.

If a chatbot returns business data, prompts and post-checks aren't the guardrail. The architecture has to be.

What a stakeholder means by a soft rule, and why your objective function should take it literally.

Blocked registries, unreachable CDNs and telemetry that fails silently. Designing for it saves you from a very long launch night.