Journal of a passionate technologist building production AI Tools (RAG platforms, intelligent query systems, and agentic workflows). Hacker of local models across an NVIDIA DGX Spark (128GB Unified VRAM) & an RTX 4090, rangefinder shooter (Leica M10 with Summicron 35 & Summilux 50 ASPH), and trilingual builder based in England.
From bricking an early NVIDIA RIVA 128 at age 13 in Beijing to walking to work at NVIDIA when CUDA 1.0 launched on the GeForce 8800 GTX — the origin of Compusential.
Moments through the viewfinder — optical essence, landscapes & natural light.
Why treating bleeding-edge developer kits like Google ADK as enterprise prerequisites misses the point: rapid SDK churn, the compounding context feeding tax in tools like Claude Code, and why Atlassian Rovo proves we are still in the early days.
Why enterprise agents like Atlassian Rovo create tasks in the wrong project, the dangers of ambient write permissions, and how deterministic TDD test suites prevent autonomous failures.
Building a triple-GPU Frankenstein mining rig in 2011, testing cross-border settlement from bitcoin.de to Alipay, surviving forum scams, and buying autonomy for graduate school at Imperial.
Why spending £4,000 on a 128GB NVIDIA DGX Spark alongside an RTX 4090 makes sense: the friction of the cloud hourly meter, memory bandwidth vs capacity trade-offs, and running 131k context on local silicon.