The Living Deadline

Pain Point It’s easy for surveys to get wrong data or frustrate users by not guessing the right multiple options to offer.

Pain Point: Finding The Right Combination Of Parameters This is a story about using a cloud LLM agent to tune a local LLM setup.

From my talk at NABE TEC EU 2026.

Paul MacCready won the Kremer Prize for human-powered flight in 1977, after the prize had been open for 18 years.

Given at NABE TEC EU 2026 (National Association for Business Economics, Technology Economics Conference), Amsterdam.

I like sketching on an Onyx Boox.

I want to offer a mental model and decision tree for building Agent Skills incrementally.

If you can’t measure it, you’re guessing.

We keep asking questions we should already know the answer to.

GenAI is non-deterministic and can fail or produce different results for the same input.

Pain Point Slack only pastes rich formatting when the clipboard advertises text/html, otherwise it treats everything as plain text.

Pain Point pip install hangs in WSL with no useful error, often after it starts fetching from files.pythonhosted.org.

Abstract As LLM tools and agents emerge in the Airflow community, whether as plugins, MCP servers, or embedded agents, we lack a consistent way to benchmark across implementations and across versions of the same solution.

This post is part of a series: “Factory of Domain Experts”: What problem are we solving?

Many people use LLM (Large Language Models) services to code at work but don’t necessarily see a path to use them at home on a budget.

The Rule After your change is approved and enters the delivery pipeline, you should be able to forget it.

The Rule Do not check whether things are fine.

Pain Point Too many recurring meetings drain your week’s productivity.

Intro Often, when working in the terminal, you’ll find yourself running a command that takes a non-trivial amount of time and you don’t want to just stare at the screen until it finishes.

Intro Some time ago I came into an issue where people served git repositories in a local network using apache but used a self-signed certificate for the server.