Series: Looking back — A retrospective on applied AI projects from 2024-2026

• Looking back: structured extraction with Pydantic and JSON schemas, the core of CICA

  This is a look back, written in 2026, at work from spring 2025—specifically March to June of that year. By…
  Oct 26, '26

• From Forecasting Models to AI Agents

  People often ask how I went from transportation modeling to building AI agents. On the surface, these seem like completely…
  Mar 1, '25

• Building with LLMs: Lessons from the Trenches

  After a year of building products on top of large language models, here are the lessons that cost me the…
  Nov 1, '24