June 27, 2026 · 5 min read
I built a self-healing RAG pipeline, a guardrails gateway, and an eval gate as one system, then threw a 44-question battery at it. Zero hallucinations, because the behavior that matters most is refusal. Here is how trust got built into t…
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June 17, 2026 · 9 min read
Every system that fuses signals into one consequential number has a fault line: the data you trust enough to composite into a grade versus the data you only trust enough to watch. How I drew that boundary in my personal finance engine, a…
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June 9, 2026 · 10 min read
A backtest's job is not to find an edge. It is to stop you from believing in one that is not there. The toolkit I used to test my own trading engine, and the part where it killed my single best signal.
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May 31, 2026 · 6 min read
How I replaced manual CSV exports with a live Garmin data feed for my AI marathon coach: a scheduled unofficial-API poller, resilient session handling, and the design calls that keep training and recovery data fresh and trustworthy.
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May 28, 2026 · 8 min read
Two posts ago I bet that keeping my portfolio reviewer's engine deterministic and auditable was worth it. This is where that bet paid off: because the engine is replayable, I could run a simulated market crash through the real production…
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May 19, 2026 · 4 min read
A personal portfolio reviewer where the scoring is deterministic and the AI only narrates. The architecture that held up after I had to rewrite the model it was built on, and why that boundary is the whole point.
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April 13, 2026 · 7 min read
How I built a personal AI coaching system for marathon training, layering deterministic guardrails over an LLM narrative engine, ingesting Garmin FIT files, and designing for my own injury history.
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