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He Got the Job at My Dream Company
My friend and I interviewed at my dream company, and he got the offer while I was left waiting.
- interviews
- life
- reflections
Notes from production
The Blog
Workflow automation, retrieval-grounded agents, and the infrastructure underneath — written from systems that actually run unattended.
1 min readMy First n8n Template Was Rejected Twice
I had built over ten automations before deciding to publish one on n8n, but my first creator submission was rejected twice.
- n8n
- creators
- rejection
- publishing
3 min readLooking for a Leader, Not a Manager
I used to take on every task, but without a manager who has time to listen and offer direction, I am struggling to find the path forward.
- management
- career
- leadership
- work
3 min readOne Minute to Explain My Work
I spent an hour on a job application, but the hardest part was describing my project in a one-minute video.
- video
- job application
- personal projects
- learning
3 min readGoing to Tungnath with My Colleagues
After weeks of staring at laptop screens, a trip to Tungnath with my colleagues was exactly the reset I needed.
- travel
- tungnath
- colleagues
- mountains
4 min readWeekly AI & Automation Digest: Model Tier Fragmentation, Local Open Weights, and Context Engineering
This week's engineering digest covers OpenAI's o3-pro release and GPT-5.6 Sol preview, Alibaba's Qwen3.8 open weights for local devices, and Elastic's architecture guide on agent context engineering.
- ai
- llm
- agents
- engineering
5 min readChunk size is a retrieval decision, not a formatting one
The choice of chunk size in retrieval-augmented generation directly dictates the quality of information presented to the large language model, making it a critical retrieval parameter rather than a mere formatting preference.
- retrieval augmented generation
- rag
- chunking
- llm
- automation