· agentic AI / engineering / leadership
Boundaries Before Autonomy: A Practical Rule for Agentic AI
The safest way to give an AI agent more freedom is to make its boundaries, evidence, and escalation paths explicit first.
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Notes from inside the system.
AI, engineering leadership, ambition, and the strange work of building a life across cultures.
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· engineering / systems / agentic AI
The Seams Are the System: What Full-Stack Engineering Actually Taught Me
Full-stack experience matters less as a list of technologies than as the ability to see where interfaces, infrastructure, data, and people fail one another.
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Your CTO Should Not Be a Single Point of Failure
A strong technical leader does not collect every decision. They build the context, ownership, and judgment that let the organization move without them.
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From Small Town Dreams to Global Horizons Pt. 1
I grew up in a small town in middle America. Oklahoma was a state with a population of merely 3.9 million people...
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From Small Town Dreams to Global Horizons Pt. 2
Before discussing my travels, let me tell you about the first time I was exposed to Korea, as this moment played a pivotal role in influencing my curiosity and subsequent decisions.
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When my grandpa passed
A reflection on my grandfather, memory, language, and the fear of losing part of my Vietnamese identity.
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