Writing
Notes on getting language models to do useful, trustworthy work against real infrastructure — MCP, Oracle Cloud, RAG, and the design decisions behind the tools I build.
2026
- A working iOS app in a day, and the parts AI didn't do for me
I'm an integration engineer who'd never written Swift. I wanted to measure how much of shipping a small product is the coding I lack versus the judgment I already have. So I built and open-sourced an iOS file-transfer app with Claude in about nine hours — here's the method and where the human still mattered.
- Ask your cloud metrics a question: an MCP server for OCI Monitoring
Why I built an MCP server that answers "which integration is burning through our message packs?" in plain English — and the design choices behind giving an LLM read-only primitives instead of canned reports.