Blog.
Notes on AI tooling, teaching, and what UW Informatics is like from the inside. Rough drafts, specific details.
Engineering
Wiring GPT-4o-mini into a repair dispatch platform
How FixFlow turns a tenant's paragraph ("the dishwasher is making a noise and also leaking") into a structured work order with priority, equipment type, and parts likelihood, without the model fabricating unit numbers.
Teaching
If you can explain recursion to a 10-year-old
Six years of tutoring kids taught me more about API design than any framework docs. If a ten-year-old can't guess what your function does from its name, you named it wrong.
Research
Research, pivots, punts: the Go Macro capstone journey
We started building a calorie tracker. We shipped a decision-fatigue tool. Three months of user interviews, three scrapped Figma files, and one user quote sit between those sentences.
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