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Personal essays on engineering, startups, and training.
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Kata: a pattern-first way to drill for coding interviews
Why I built another LeetCode clone, and why it isn't really about LeetCode.
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A Bad Judge Is Worse Than No Judge
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.
applied-ai · llm-eval · production-ai · agentic-systems