From Chords to Code: My Musical Journey and Madison AI
Music has always been the rhythm of my life. From the early days of strumming my first guitar to the countless hours spent composing melodies that spoke to my soul, music was more than a [...]
How Building Madison AI Screwed With My Philosophy and Saved My Inner Writer (Sort Of)
Let’s start with the obvious: building an AI company was never on my bingo card. I didn’t grow up thinking, “One day, I’ll use Python to disrupt public service workflows and build municipal software so [...]
Punch Cards and Poetry: A Coder’s Journey Through Time
The journey of a coder is a winding road, full of unexpected turns, frustrating dead ends, and moments of pure exhilaration. Also, a frequent desire to bang your head against a fucking wall. It's a [...]
My Life in Code: Marvelous 3, AI Search, and the Occasional Existential Crisis
Alright, imaginary friends, gather 'round the virtual campfire. Today, we're diving deep into the labyrinth of my memories and code files to unearth some hidden gems. You asked for details about the band Marvelous 3 [...]
The Long and Winding Road to Hybrid Search: A Facebook Flashback
Hey everyone, I wanted to take a bit more time to share the story behind the development of the madison_hybrid_search function at Madison AI. It wasn't a walk in the park, and looking back at [...]
Early Days with Azure Search AI: The Time I Almost Gave Up on AI-Powered Search
Not long ago, I was just a guy trying to make **search not suck**. My first attempts at AI-powered search? **Disasters.** If I had a dollar for every time I thought, “this is completely broken,” [...]
The Frustrations of Data Processing: AI, Bureaucracy, and the Never-Ending Battle for Clean Data
Data: The Necessary Evil of AI Development As the Lead AI Solutions Architect at Madison AI, my job isn’t just to build AI systems—it’s to make them work in the real world. And if there’s [...]
From LAMP to Python & TypeScript: My Journey into Modern Development
There was a time when I thought I had it all figured out. A website was a series of carefully stacked bricks—HTML, CSS, PHP, jQuery—arranged just so, and if the wall didn’t collapse under the [...]
Madison AI: The Governance AI Born Out of Pure Frustration
At the time Madison AI began, artificial intelligence was just emerging into the public conversation in a big way. While AI was being hailed as the future, government workflows were still stuck in the past—bogged [...]
Why You Won’t find me on FaceBook
Time to make a change Recently, I took a year off of Facebook. I would occasionally log in to make sure I wasn't missing any messages from loved ones, but otherwise I kept away. And [...]