The leap from using AI to building with it is the difference between asking a tool for answers and engineering a system that produces them on its own.
Infrastructure is the technical track: my Personal AI Infrastructure (PAI), agents and skills, retrieval and vector search, document pipelines, and the real projects behind them — knowledge bases, converters, automations I actually run. Expect architecture, trade-offs, and working code, not demos.
New to all this? The Foundations track builds the groundwork first.
When My Own Tool Couldn’t Handle My Work The error message was easy to dismiss: RapidOCR returned empty result!. It appeared …
If a Script Can Do It, Don’t Ask the LLM When your AI system is spending inference tokens to parse date fields, strip PDF …
Front Matter Is the Schema of Your Knowledge Base There is a Dataview query I run at least once a week: TABLE date, author, genre …
Speed Is the Feature. Unexamined Speed Is the Liability. One of the most impressive things about using AI to write code is how …
ProjectDecompose: Breaking Down Complex Projects Into Deliverables Have you ever stared at a project and thought, “This is …
The Promise I Made to Myself In my last post about building the PDF to Markdown converter , I listed some “what’s …
The Problem With Security Books I have a lot of cybersecurity books. PDFs from Humble Bundles, O’Reilly downloads, books …
Connecting PAI to NotebookLM via MCP: Your Research Becomes a Live Knowledge Layer I’ve been using Google’s NotebookLM …
Claude Code Has Skills. PAI Has a Skill System. Here’s the Difference. There’s a word that shows up in both Claude …
The Problem: AI Conferences Are Everywhere and Nowhere If you’ve ever tried to find a comprehensive list of upcoming AI …
RAG, Agents, and Skills: The Three Pillars Inside My Personal AI This site — Augmented Resilience — didn’t get built the way …
The Problem: PDFs Are Knowledge Prisons You know that feeling when you download a brilliant research paper, only to realize you …
I recently deployed my Hugo blog to Namecheap shared hosting, using Obsidian as my content editor and Claude Code with PAI …