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Notes on AI systems design, digital transformation, trustworthy AI, and what 25 years of large-scale engineering can teach us about getting this generation of technology right.

May 2026

What 25 Years in Large-Scale Systems Taught Me About AI That Most Companies Miss

Most enterprise AI strategies are built on a quiet assumption: that intelligence is the hard part. After two and a half decades engineering systems for national laboratories, I'm convinced it isn't. The hard part is everything around the model.

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Trustworthy AI in Regulated Environments: A Practitioner's Field Guide

A working framework for building AI systems that survive contact with auditors, scientists, and skeptical end-users — drawn from deployments in research and federal environments.

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Why Digital Transformation Programs Stall — and What Actually Restarts Them

Notes from leading enterprise transformation across research, government, and commercial environments. The common patterns of failure are remarkably consistent.

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