i took the long way around on purpose. that's the whole thing.
ai can be quick. it will hand you instant gratification, a passable answer, a generic site, a caption that sounds like everyone else's. that speed is real, and it is also a trap, because the fast version is the average of everything, and the average is forgettable.
so i slow down. i build thorough systems and i build agents that ask before they act, because that is the part that actually serves a person, the connection and the judgment the computer doesn't have. taste is the actual stack. the differentiator was never the tooling.
// the arc, briefly.
i started where art meets tech: coding apps, games, and interactive media for stand up speak out, a program that shares a campus with bedford hills women's prison, where i helped teach storytelling and media production. then data and machine learning, including a stretch as an ai solutions architect rebuilding a colorado contractor's data systems so the people could focus on the safety of the actual road. now: design engineering with ai, in public, under the hot path.
the throughline is staying current with the tech, then translating it into something a normal person can actually pick up and use. i want people to see ai as a tool, not a threat.
this post is short on purpose. the longer proof is the rest of the site. go click around.
// the hot path
// the long way around