Technology shifts. Sometimes gradually. Sometimes all at once. After more than 35 years in IT, I have learned to pay attention when the direction of the industry changes. In late 2024, I made a deliberate pivot from quantum computing research to applied artificial intelligence. Quantum computing remains fascinating, but the practical signal around AI was impossible to ignore. AI is not just another technology trend. It is becoming part of the operating fabric of modern busine

Recently, I completed a small Zelda-inspired browser game by following a tutorial created by Ania Kubów. This was not an original application that I designed from scratch. I followed along with Ania’s implementation, wrote the code myself as she demonstrated it, and used the project as a hands-on learning exercise. Full credit for the game design, structure, code approach, and tutorial belongs to her. Oddly, she seemed to just do the whole thing as a speed run completely fr

Executive Summary In this mini-project, I rebuilt a personal “Daily Brief” system that sends me a Chief-of-Staff-style summary each morning through Telegram. This was my third attempt at this idea. The first version, built with OpenClaw, took roughly 40 hours and ultimately proved too brittle. The second version, built with Claude Code, took closer to 15 hours but still did not become the stable, enduring system I wanted. This Codex-based build took about two hours and result

Executive Summary In this mini-project, I built a small Streamlit-based AI assistant (an AI Chat Bot) and integrated it with OpenRouter so the application could dynamically route prompts across many large language models. The app itself is intentionally simple: A local Streamlit web interface A text input box for prompts An OpenRouter-backed model call A cost/quality slider (to indicate what kind of model OpenRouter should choose) Copy buttons for both the user question and m