Developer tools, maps, and AI agents

I lead Developer Experience Engineering at Google Maps Platform. I write here about building developer tools, open-source libraries, and AI agents.

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Featured · August 15, 2026

Can I Build an AI Agent That Doesn't Write Slop?

I tested prompt engineering and local fine-tuning to build an AI copy editor. Fine-tuning beats prompting for voice, but a modular pipeline beats fine-tuning for maintenance.

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Personal · November 1, 2026

Why We Decide Beats What We Decide

AI makes generating options nearly free, which shifts the bottleneck to human judgment and makes explicit personal values the only durable filter against decision fatigue.

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August 4, 2026

Fine-Tuning Was the Easy Part

Tuning a small model to generate minimal API field masks took an afternoon. The hard platform problem is distribution: getting that fix past a single adapter, across dozens of APIs, and into the foundation models developers choose next.

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July 20, 2026

A Model Router Needs a Scoreboard

Routing tasks to cheaper capability tiers is an easy policy to write, but it remains a hypothesis until held-out runs prove quality holds and measure the real cost of retries, latency, and rescues.

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