Writing

Notes on infrastructure, the transition from telecom ops to cloud engineering, and applied AI in unexpected places.

• The C code factory: local first, cloud only when needed

  A 7B model on a laptop with no GPU solved 20 of 41 C tasks under the 42 Norm; a cloud cascade solved all 41 for USD 1.01. Method, results, and the six mistakes I caught along the way.

• What 25 Years of Telecom Ops Taught Me About Cloud Infrastructure

  The instincts don't change when the hardware does — they just get renamed.