I Spent $127K on Machine Learning Infrastructure — Here's What Actually Worked

After building Machine Learning systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M Machine Learning Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's Machine Learning project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos,... Read more

The NLP Mistakes That Are Costing Companies Millions (And How to Avoid Them)

After building NLP systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M NLP Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's NLP project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos, impressive accuracy metrics, glowing res... Read more

AI Tools in 2025: What's Actually Useful vs What's Just Hype

After building AI Tools systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M AI Tools Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's AI Tools project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos, impressive accuracy metrics, glowing rese... Read more

Machine Learning is Not Magic — It's Engineering (And Here's How to Do It Right)

After building Machine Learning systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M Machine Learning Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's Machine Learning project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demo... Read more

The AI Ethics Framework Every Engineering Team Needs in 2025

After building AI Ethics systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M AI Ethics Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's AI Ethics project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos, impressive accuracy metrics, glowing r... Read more

Deep Learning in 2025: What's Actually Useful vs What's Just Hype

After building Deep Learning systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M Deep Learning Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's Deep Learning project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos, impressive accuracy m... Read more

The AI Ethics Framework Every Engineering Team Needs in 2025

After building AI Ethics systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M AI Ethics Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's AI Ethics project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos, impressive accuracy metrics, glowing r... Read more

The AI Tools Strategy That Turned Our Prototype Into $10M ARR

After building AI Tools systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M AI Tools Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's AI Tools project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos, impressive accuracy metrics, glowing res... Read more

How We Reduced Machine Learning Inference Costs by 89% Without Losing Accuracy

After building Machine Learning systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M Machine Learning Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's Machine Learning project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos,... Read more

NLP in 2025: What's Actually Useful vs What's Just Hype

After building NLP systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M NLP Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's NLP project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos, impressive accuracy metrics, glowing research papers.

The pr... Read more

I Built Deep Learning Systems at 3 Unicorns — Here Are the Patterns That Actually Scale

After building Deep Learning systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M Deep Learning Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's Deep Learning project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos,... Read more

I Built Deep Learning Systems at 3 Unicorns — Here Are the Patterns That Actually Scale

After building Deep Learning systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M Deep Learning Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's Deep Learning project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos,... Read more

Why Your Deep Learning Model Works in Jupyter But Fails in Production

After building Deep Learning systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M Deep Learning Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's Deep Learning project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos, impressive accura... Read more

How We Reduced Computer Vision Inference Costs by 89% Without Losing Accuracy

After building Computer Vision systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M Computer Vision Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's Computer Vision project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos, imp... Read more

Why Your Data Science Model Works in Jupyter But Fails in Production

After building Data Science systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M Data Science Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's Data Science project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos, impressive accuracy m... Read more

The Data Science Mistakes That Are Costing Companies Millions (And How to Avoid Them)

After building Data Science systems at three different unicorns and consulting for 50+ AI implementations, I've seen the same patterns kill projects over and over. The good news? The solutions are simpler than you think.

The $2.7M Data Science Failure

Last year, I was called in to investigate why a company's Data Science project was burning $2.7M annually with zero production impact. Beautiful demos, impr... Read more

I Built a Custom ChatGPT for My Company's Codebase. Here's What I Learned About Enterprise AI

Building AI systems for enterprise use is vastly different from creating proofs of concept or research prototypes. After months of real-world implementation, here's what I wish I knew before starting.

Six months ago, our engineering team was drowning in tribal knowledge. New developers spent weeks just understanding our codebase architecture. So I built an internal AI assistant trained on our docum... Read more