The case for boring stack choices in regulated AI
Postgres over the latest vector DB. Go stdlib over the framework du jour. Single binary over Kubernetes operator. The choices that bore reviewers and delight on-call engineers.
#Opinion
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The board policy is not a slide — it's a YAML file
The bank's board approves an AI policy. The policy exists as a slide deck nobody reads. The risk team's actual operational policy is what's in the code. Closing that gap is the FREE-AI Rec 14 win.
Audit logs are the API of record
The audit log isn't a side effect of the system. It's the contract you owe to regulators, customers, and your future self. Treat it as a first-class API — schema, versioning, and SLOs included.
Twelve Go idioms I changed my mind about
Patterns I confidently recommended five years ago that I'd argue against today. The list of "things you used to do in Go that don't pay back anymore."
Twelve months of writing in public — what worked, what didn't, what I'd cut
Reflections on a year of consistent technical writing. The post categories that compounded; the ones that didn't; what I'd tell someone starting out.
The recruiter test — what your repo says before the interview
A recruiter spends 90 seconds on your GitHub before deciding to talk to you. What they're looking for; what makes them skip; what signals matter more than the README.