Engineering Board

A personal roadmap of ideas, projects, learning goals, and experiments.

Ideas
2
In Progress
2
Shipped
2
Total Tickets
9

Ideas

2
AI-001Medium

Explore a local-first RAG pipeline

Prototype a retrieval pipeline that runs fully on-device using a small embedding model, no external API calls. Mostly about understanding the trade-offs of **local** inference versus hosted APIs.

RAG · LLM

AI-002Low

Try a lightweight agent framework for scheduling

Spend a weekend evaluating whether a small agent loop is a better fit than a plain cron job for a task that needs judgment, not just a trigger.

Agents · Experiments

Planned

2
AI-003High

Add an evaluation harness for prompt regressions

A small structural evaluation suite that runs automatically before any prompt change ships — checking length, structure, and subject coverage rather than full semantic correctness.

Evaluation · Infrastructure

AI-004Medium

Write a follow-up post on retrieval quality

A companion piece to the evaluation post — see [Notes on Evaluating LLM Output Quality](/writing/notes-on-evaluating-llm-output-quality) — this time focused on retrieval rather than generation.

Writing · RAG

In Progress

2
AI-005High

Build an AI Lab experimentation sandbox

A collection of small, self-contained AI experiments that don't need to become full projects — just a place to try an idea and write down what happened.

AI · Portfolio

AI-006Medium

Learn the fundamentals of vector database internals

Go past the client library and actually understand how approximate nearest-neighbor indexes (`HNSW`, IVF) trade off recall against latency.

Learning · Infrastructure

Review

1
AI-007Medium

Refactor the embeddings pipeline for reuse

Pull shared chunking and embedding logic into a single internal package instead of copy-pasting it between experiments.

Infrastructure · Tooling

Shipped

2
AI-008High

Rebuild personal site with a minimal, editorial design

Replace the old cyberpunk-terminal portfolio with a calmer, typography-first design in the spirit of Linear, Vercel, and Stripe Press.

Portfolio · Design

AI-009Low

Ship dark mode theming

Warm off-white and lavender in light mode, charcoal and the same lavender accent in dark mode — one consistent token set across every page.

Portfolio · Tooling