A weekend spent over-engineering my coffee
Over-engineering my coffee with scales, brew ratios, and spreadsheets taught me the real optimum was just paying attention — a lesson in optimization's limits.
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Over-engineering my coffee with scales, brew ratios, and spreadsheets taught me the real optimum was just paying attention — a lesson in optimization's limits.
Most LLM hallucination is a retrieval failure in disguise. Fix the context first, force citations, and give the model a sanctioned way to say 'I don't know.'
Inference cost optimization is a measurement problem in disguise. Fix the quality metric first, then trim context, route models, and cache the stable prefix.
'Should we fine-tune?' is usually the wrong first question. Ask instead: is the gap knowledge or behavior, and how often does the answer change?
I'm no CR7, but football taught me resilience, consistency, and how to rewrite my own story — ten lessons from the pitch that carry far beyond the game.
How owning less gave me more: minimalism cleared my mental bandwidth, cut the clutter and stress, and made room for the experiences that actually matter.
Lessons from 24 years of trying everything — design, startups, sports, travel, and failure — and why curiosity and the journey beat the destination.