Corporate Split Personality

Some days I’m knee deep in “strategic vision” that takes five slides to say nothing and three years to maybe do something. Other days I’m begging engineers to update their tickets like I’m yelling into an empty alley.

It’s a split existence. Half big picture chess, half trying to teach grown adults the ancient art of breaking down a task so another human can pick it up. Glamorous? Only if you find beauty in watching paint dry while someone argues about the color.

Moonlighting in AI

So I’ve been moonlighting in AI. Not the keynote speaker kind. I mean messy local models, file aware Q&A bots that sometimes get it right, and multi agent setups that only occasionally stop acting like drunk roommates.

Why I Keep At It

It’s the perfect antidote to the corporate grind. No stakeholder reviews. No endless email threads debating commas. Just me, some code, and the pure satisfaction of making something work or crash spectacularly in real time.

It might not fix my day job, but it keeps me from making "please update your tickets" my legacy.