I'm a software engineer in Portland. I write essays on engineering, startups, and training — the threads that keep showing up when I sit down to think.
Right now I'm building threshold.fit, the fitness platform I wish existed.
This site is where the writing happens.
Why I built another LeetCode clone, and why it isn't really about LeetCode.
How manual gold-standard curation at a legal AI startup and a two-tier deterministic/LLM-judge gate at my own coaching platform taught me the same lesson: an evaluation system that scores confidently and wrongly is worse than having no evaluation at all.