The hard part of building DailySurf
AI made the app faster to build. It did not make finding the right product easier.
Articles
Vibe retouching with Silver AI
Nik Silver Efex is an established reference for professional black-and-white editing. Silver AI grew from a two-person prototype into a cross-functional DxO project building an inspectable editing agent for it.
AI-native development with Linear
How I coordinate human decisions, AI agents, and delivery gates through a shared workflow.
What if Steve Jobs was wrong all along?
Smartphones, AI, and the fact that products evolve faster than people do.
Why I decided to quit my PhD
A personal account of leaving academia and choosing to work on products.
Mapping deciduous and evergreen forests from space
A controlled France-wide comparison of AlphaEarth embeddings and hand-built Sentinel-2 phenology features.
Joining forest disturbance records with graph theory
An unpublished framework for reconciling incomplete event records across space, time, and source reliability.
Dynamic World, revisited
A compact 1.6-million-parameter U-Net trained for stability across dates, seasons, and biomes.