LLM 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 & TechnologyWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
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 & TechnologyOODA 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 & TechnologyThe Ralph Loop: How I Run Autonomous AI Agents Overnight
I built an autonomous agent system with stop hooks, spawn budgets, and filesystem memory. Here are the failures and what actually ships code.
AI & TechnologyCompounding 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 & TechnologyFrom 76 to 100: Achieving a Perfect Lighthouse Score
A FastAPI site went from Lighthouse 76 with 0.493 CLS to perfect 100/100/100/100. The fix: critical CSS extraction, a CSS variable bug, and async loading.
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.