The BlueDot Impact Technical AI Safety course is free, well-structured, and worth your time. The mechanistic interpretability unit is what sent me down the rabbit hole I’m currently in.
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Engineering leader at Microsoft. I write about software, AI systems, and the people and organizations building them — how agents work, how to use them well, and what it all means.
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Agents Are Already Here: Notes from the ASPLOS 2026 AIOps Workshop
Thoughts from the Cloud Intelligence / AIOps Workshop at ASPLOS 2026. The field is at an inflection point — not because everything is resolved, but because the capability gap has closed. The harder work now is infrastructure, accountability, and trust.
On Learning Mechanistic Interpretability
I’ve been working through the mech interp fundamentals — reading, notebooks, and a research project — while pushing the boundary of what agentic tools can do without giving up ownership of the work.