I design and build solutions. I've been building things on the internet since the early days, which means I'm well over 10,000 hours in each part of the full stack. Not just the technology stack, the business and marketing stack too. Most recently I've been immersed in the practical application of LLMs (you may know them as AI).
Over the last 30 years, I've built web businesses from the ground up and helped existing companies multiply their revenue by satisfying numbers. I prefer to work under the premise that there shouldn't be too much distinction between how we view ethics in business and ethics in the rest of life. Capitalism is a great economic system, when practically constrained, but it's a terrible contextual framework for creating values to apply to humanity.
Solving interesting business, or nonprofit, problems is one of my favorite things to do. Get in touch if you have one.
A note about AI: There are so many unfortunate things about LLM powered AI agents... copyright violation, capital consolidation, job displacement, the amount of AI slop that's flooding the internet. I never want to read another LLM written blog post.
But it's also really exciting from a tech perspective. As I mentioned, I was around for the internet when it was a baby and this is the first technology since then that has the same sort of paradigm shifting potential. As I write this I've already implemented AI improvements to a variety of business processes and the potential is undeniable, not just for large companies, but for smaller businesses as well. Like the internet did, it can help make it possible for people, even sole proprietors, to do things that previously required large teams. To me that was the most exciting part of the early internet and now AI: Making crazy ideas reality is easier now, even without a lot of resources.
At the same time, AI used for the wrong things, or implemented badly, is a net negative. Sometimes dramatically so. It's not like an appliance that you just plug in and it works, regardless of what the AI hype machine says. That's likely to get less true over time, but it's true as I write this and there are a variety of industries which are currently in the 'fuck around' stage, the 'find out' part is going to be interesting.