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What I am working on this week.

projects worked on in the last 7 days
14
working sessions with AI agents this month
34

Where those projects sit

  • Agentic systems3
  • Geospatial intelligence2
  • Meeting assistants0
  • Industrial and predictive AI2
  • Video and audio AI1
  • Platform and infrastructure3
  • Internal tools and other3

Counted automatically from my work log. Projects are grouped by the kind of work, and no client is named. Updated October 13, 2026.

Notes

Latest field notes.

  1. The deploy that worked until it did not

    RuleRun deploy jobs on the target, not over SSH into it.

    A pipeline stage passed for days, then timed out with no code change. It had been waiting for a person to click a link.

  2. The laptop did the work while the server sat idle

    RuleAsk where heavy work runs before it starts.

    A two-day data job pinned my laptop. A far bigger server on the same network had nothing to do.

  3. Three days of work lived in /tmp

    RuleWork that must survive gets pushed as it lands.

    A laptop restarted and took five branches with it. They had been committed, but never pushed.