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Notes from working on data platforms, infrastructure, and side projects.
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AI-assisted
What this series is
A small series of opinionated hot takes on AI engineering, drafted with LLM assistance and verified by hand. The index post.
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Telling an AI not to hallucinate is like telling a person not to make mistakes
Apple's "do not hallucinate" prompt is funny. The same logic is why AI-written + AI-reviewed pipelines silently approve bugs, why long contexts compound errors, and why the real guardrails are deterministic.
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Every new AI IDE is the same model with a different system prompt
Cursor, Kiro, Windsurf, Antigravity, Trae. All forks of VS Code, all wrapping one of three model APIs, all selling a long system prompt that does not move the model's ceiling. The vibe-coding tech-debt numbers were always pointing somewhere else.
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