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Guilty Until Proven Human

How AI writing detection actually works, and why an accurate score still cannot tell you what you want to know.

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AIsolation of Slop

Writing code got cheap, containing it did not. How to isolate AI slop with small services, contracts kept outside the code, and a spec file per service.

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Taking Chances

AI is one loaded chamber among several. A short look at the technologies that could end us, a small game about the odds, and the ones we decided not to build.

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Tools

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Detour Reader

A Chrome extension that opens the page in your current tab on archive.today: the newest snapshot if there is one, a fresh archive if not.

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Nopeify

Stamp any photo with an AI watermark and watch it stop being believed. A demonstration of how little it takes to discredit a real image.

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Saine

A curated timeline of articles on AI, its impact, and responsible usage, necessary knowledge to stay sane in this day and age.

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I wrote a book

How philosophy's oldest questions became tech's biggest problems

The rise of AI didn't bring new questions. It made the old ones operational and, for the first time in history, urgent. What does it mean to understand, to be conscious, to be intelligent? How do we value creativity, judgement, and personhood? How do the limits of our own perception shape the machines we build? And is there anything more than computation to being human?

Bringing philosophy to technology and technology to philosophy, this book starts from a simple premise. We cannot align a machine to values we cannot name, and this is where the naming begins.

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Services

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Cloud architecture, full-stack engineering, and AI development over two decades of delivering solutions across startups, enterprises, and everything in between. From TypeScript, Python, and Go applications, over VPSes, AWS, Azure and GCP infrastructure to the work that spans through AI powered tools, serverless platforms, expert systems, and much more.

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This website is a creative outlet, a place where I gather the resources, ideas, and experiments I collect along the way, and try to make sense of them by putting them into words.


The world of software engineering is changing faster than anyone can keep up with, and AI is accelerating that pace in ways that are simultaneously thrilling and disorienting. I needed a space to track my own work and explorations, to document the things I build, break, and learn from, not for an audience, but for myself. If someone else finds it useful, even better.


You will find hot takes and personal opinions that might age poorly. You will find whacky tools built for no reason other than curiosity and fun. You will find write-ups on navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-assisted development, what works, what does not, and what I think about it all. Some of it will be technical, some of it will be philosophical, and some of it will just be me thinking out loud.


This is also where my portfolio lives, a unified home for the projects, tools, and professional work scattered across years and platforms. Rather than maintaining a dozen profiles elsewhere, everything converges here. The blog posts, the experiments, the professional work and the services, they are all part of the same story.


So no, this is not a blog about best practices or industry trends written to rank on search engines. It is one engineer's notebook, left open on the desk. Flip through it if you like. Disagree with it if you must. But know that everything here was written because it mattered to me at the time, and that is the only editorial standard this place will ever have.


Love,
Ogi