Writing
Notes from the parts that break.
Field notes on agentic systems, computer vision, and the engineering work between a promising model and a dependable system.
The Safest npm Package May Be the One You Do Not Install Today
The latest npm worm is a reminder that release age, lockfiles, deterministic builds, and install-time defenses all belong in a practical supply-chain security baseline.
On agentic pipelines, and where they still break
Tool-grounded reasoning gets you most of the way. The last mile is evaluation, and nobody tells you that part up front.
Diffusion models, briefly
A short, practical mental model for DDPMs — from a thesis I actually had to defend.
Notes from an OCR paper, five years later
What held up, what I'd redo, and why segmentation is still the hard part.