Gordon Burgett | Fractional AI Engineering Director

What is the act of programming?

Scrum is broken.

The Problem I’m Trying to Solve I’ve been coding with AI agents for as long as they’ve been generally available, and I keep running into the same bottleneck: me.

What does it look like to build AI agents that actually empower people’s lives, not just “augment” them?

As Director of Tech Dev at Watermark, I overhauled our mobile app managing the entire process from vision casting through budgeting, vendor selection, implementation, testing, and launch.

Sometimes the hardest thing to figure out is not “how” to best apply a new technology, but “when not” to apply it.

I built the HealthShare app to solve my own problems with Christian Healthcare Ministries (CHM).

In the process of building out the VoirDire App for our client, we ran into an interesting problem.

We built the VoirDire app to help our client handle jury selection electronically for his upcoming trials.

As AI tools continue to reshape software development, I’ve been particularly impressed with Cursor, an AI-powered code editor that has transformed my daily workflow.

In contracting hourly for Neighbor Solutions, I’ve been enjoying working with AI to build unstructured data import and a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline.

Day 1 Saturday July 2 After an 11 hour overnight flight, a 7 hour layover, and multiple last-minute passport issues, we made it!

Day 1 Sunday September 19 Travel day - got on flight Saturday night at 8 Mini heart attack about proving vaccination status Ate dinner pre-flight, got to know the team (what you do, what got you to Albania) Brian, engineer Andrew, accountant Allison (Alli…

This year we unfortunately had to cancel our summer project due to COVID-19.

The in-between I had a full week in between the Shkoder project and the YP project.

Day 1 Tuesday June 25 We arrived in Tirana around noon and met Pal at the airport.

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it.

This month, while we’ve been working on the summer project here in Albania, I’ve been reading the book of Acts.

Day 1 Sunday July 1 We traveled overnight Friday, finally arriving Saturday night.

I spent some time this week playing with Typescript 2.8’s new features for modeling various complex types.

It’s that time again!

When I look back on my experience with Albania, starting from my first trip there in 2013 until now, I can’t help but be amazed at the way God has used this partnership to bring change not only in my life but in the lives of my friends.

Hey Y’all!

My site is getting pretty big now!

My journal for the 2017 project is up!

photo by Lauren Dean Day 1 Sunday July 2 Today was a travel day for the others, fortunately I didn’t have to travel :).

So, I’ve got an announcement to make.

April was a fairly slow month.

Today in 2017, there are a thousand and one different ways to build a website.

We love momentum March 13-17 was a big week for us.

So I took a look at my blog recently to make sure everything is working, and got a big fat “Your connection is not secure” message.

What a great weekend!

Lots of stuff has happened this past month!

Merry Christmas to everybody!

We’ve been working on follow up since Momentum Europe.

September and October have been pretty slow months, as we plan and gear up for our first big event, Momentum Europe.

One of my projects during my vacation has been to take back control of my data.

Well, it’s been a crazy couple months!

Day 1 Monday July 4 Today was a nice break.

photo by Ron Acord Day 1 Monday June 27 This year things have been a bit different, but I’m trying as much as possible to feel like I’m part of the American group.

What time is it?

It’s always great to go home.

This is my happy place Lake Lyndon B.

We’re moving into the spring now, and as I’m preparing to go back to Dallas for a 1 month fundraising trip, I thought I’d reflect on where we are after 6 months.

We got to see a really cool musical event this week!

I’ve posted a lot about the good times recently on this blog, but I thought with this post I’d let y’all in on the tough parts.

I’ve been on a serious docker/aws kick recently.

I had some time off today so I decided to revisit how I’m hosting all my stuff.

This past week I went to the STINT Mid-Year conference in Málaga, Spain.

Here’s another technical post for y’all!