The hard part
isn't capability.
It's adoption.

I work at the point where emerging technical capability becomes operational reality. Research, enterprise systems, open source, teaching, and now AI — the recurring pattern is the same: identify, build, help adapt.

Publishing the AI attribution framework as a practical open standard.

AI Attribution

Teaching courses in data science, data and software engineering, with substantial GenAI integration, at Boston University.

Exploring where institutional capacity meets agentic systems.

Operating the AI-Native Stack

Recent thinking

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The Architect and the Coder

Most talk about AI agents treats 'the agent' as one worker. In practice it's two roles, and keeping them apart, with a written contract between them, is most of why the setup works.

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Compile-Time Came Back

Agentic coding reintroduced the dead time long compiles used to have. The part that reorganized my day isn't that the agents write code, it's that I turned into the scheduler.

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Who Wrote This?

When an agent writes the code and you direct and approve it, 'who's the author' feels like a deep question. Operationally it isn't a question about authorship at all. It's a logging problem.

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Selected work

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AI Attribution Framework

A four-level taxonomy for describing how AI was involved in a piece of work — built for journalism, academia, and professional practice, and positioned as an open standard.

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Computational Journalism Innovation

Methodology and program design at the intersection of journalism, computation, and institutional practice — including TRACE, open tools, and curricular experimentation.

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GenAI Educational Integration

Systematic protocols for integrating generative AI across data science coursework — balancing productivity with educational integrity and professional responsibility.

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Follow a thread

Trails are author-curated paths through the body of work — linking essays, older projects, and material that wouldn't surface in a feed. Start anywhere and follow the connections.

Distributed Work

A trail on ambient presence, consulting infrastructure, and the things remote work tooling keeps getting wrong — and what that reveals about what presence actually requires.