AI Theater: Why Only 23% of Companies Create Real Value
McKinsey found 90% of companies claim AI adoption but only 23% scale beyond pilots. I've witnessed three flavors of AI theater and practiced one myself.
AI & TechnologyWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Design Careers That Survive AI: Judgment Over Tools
After 12 years as VP of Product Design, I watched three paradigm shifts. The skills that survived every one are the same skills AI can't replace.
Design & UXBuilding AI Systems: From RAG to Agents
I built a 3,500-line agent system with 86 hooks and consensus validation. Here's what I learned about RAG, fine-tuning, and agent orchestration.
AI & TechnologyColor Science for Interfaces: Building a Zero-Color Site
I built a site with no colors — just white on absolute black with four opacity layers. Here's the color science that made the decision work.
Design & UXFour Years of Past Year Reviews: What I Actually Learned
Four years of Past Year Review data revealed which decisions compound and which drain energy. The data changed how I make career decisions.
Systems & ProductivityCompounding Engineering: Why My Codebase Accelerates
Most codebases slow down as they grow. Mine accelerates. 95 hooks, 44 skills, and 14 configs make each feature cheaper than the last.
AI & TechnologyType Scales: How I Chose 13 Steps and Why the Ratio Matters
My site uses a 13-step type scale from 12px to 80px. How I chose the ratio, why system fonts outperform custom fonts, and what the squint test reveals.
Design & UXBrutalist Web Design Meets Beauty: My Site's Approach
I built my site at the intersection of beauty and brutalism: structural honesty, precise typography, and four opacity tiers on absolute black. No colors needed.
Design & UXOODA Loop Prompt Engineering: What Five Failures Taught Me
Five prompt failures taught me that structured observation beats clever wording. Boyd's OODA loop maps directly to my daily prompt engineering workflow.
AI & TechnologyVibe Coding vs. Engineering: Where I Draw the Line
I use Claude Code daily with 86 hooks and a full quality gate system. Here's where I vibe code, where I engineer, and why the boundary matters.
AI & TechnologyCritical Yet Kind: Feedback Principles Encoded in 86 Hooks
Google's Project Aristotle found psychological safety predicts team performance. I encoded the same principles into automated code review hooks.
Career & GrowthLLM Tokenization: Why Korean Costs 2.8x More Than English
Translating my site into 6 languages revealed that Korean costs 2.8x more tokens than English for identical content. An interactive visualizer shows why.
AI & TechnologyExternal Publications
Technical writing at Introl
Local LLM Hardware Pricing Guide 2025
Comprehensive hardware recommendations and cost analysis for running large language models locally.
H100 vs. H200 vs. B200: Choosing the Right NVIDIA GPUs for Your AI Workload
GPU selection guide comparing NVIDIA's latest datacenter accelerators for different AI workloads.
TPU Architecture: Complete Guide to Google's 7 Generations
Deep technical dive into Google's Tensor Processing Unit evolution from TPUv1 to TPUv5.
GPU Memory Pooling in Multi-Tenant Kubernetes
Resource sharing strategies for GPU clusters in containerized environments.
Ray Clusters: Distributed AI Computing Infrastructure
Guide to building and managing distributed AI computing with Ray framework.
DeepSeek V3 Open Source AI Cost Advantage
Analysis of open source LLM economics and DeepSeek's competitive positioning.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU 600kW Racks 2027
Future datacenter power requirements and NVIDIA's next-generation GPU roadmap.
SMR Nuclear Power for AI Data Centers
Small modular reactor solutions for powering next-generation AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek MHC Architecture Breakthrough
Technical analysis of DeepSeek's Multi-Head Compression architecture innovations.