Notes from
the workbench.
Writing about AI, automation, mobile engineering, and building at scale
I Built a Video Editor Where the AI Has to Ask Before It Publishes
How I built Greenlight, a cloud video editor where TrueForge can research, cut, render, and stage a YouTube video without hiding the work or taking away creator control.
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Scaling Hackathon Judging with Multi-Agent Evaluation at Chai Code
How we built an agentic pipeline that evaluates 200+ project submissions in under 4 hours, with detailed feedback for every participant
How I Shipped 17,000+ Lines to a 10K-Star Open Source Project in One Week
Going from minor bug fixes to shipping full features in open source - my experience contributing to Accomplish AI during the WeMakeDevs hackathon
Building CandidAI: An AI Interviewer That Actually Sees You
How I built a real-time AI technical interviewer using Vision Agents SDK that watches body language, evaluates live code, and generates comprehensive interview reports - all over WebRTC
DIY Air Purifier: My First 3D Printing Project
How I built a custom air purifier using Creality Ender V3 SE 3D printer with OpenSCAD-designed parts, bringing my room's AQI down to 50
From a Flight to Victory: How I Won the FutureStack GenAI Hackathon
A story of building SRE Sentinel - an AI-powered DevOps copilot that won the Docker MCP Gateway track among 250+ submissions