Going deeper into AI engineering
Moving beyond demos into retrieval quality, evaluation, production reliability, and the unglamorous systems work that makes AI genuinely useful.
Now · Manila · July 2026
What has my attention right now.
A snapshot, not a manifesto. This page changes as priorities do, but the current season is about depth: better systems, better stories, fewer shallow bets.
Making finance content with more staying power
More practical YouTube work: clear decisions, grounded tradeoffs, and lessons people can still use after the algorithm moves on.
Keeping the product muscle active
Small bets, quick prototypes, and thoughtful iterations around Mayi, Asenso, and whatever useful idea earns the right to be next.
Building a life outside the dashboard
More movement, more places, better routines, and enough space to notice what is actually working.
A live footnote
What's in the headphones.
From Sam’s desk
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