Every engineer has had to grapple with their identity since the rise of generative AI. Like most people, I was worried when I first learned about just how well chatbots can generate coherent and simple functions. At this point, generative AI by itself is unable to build large software systems that span domains. For example,…

Before I was born my parents started a small skilled trades business fixing restaurant equipment which ended up being very lucrative. My mother managed book work and compliance and my father handled all the repairs. I have always sought to replicate their success in my own career. When I asked my father what advice he…

Link to Demo Link to GitHub Repo Recently, I built a complete web application that uses AWS Rekognition to produce labels for any given input image. In this article I walk through how this project was built. The image below shows the high level architecture used in the project. The core functionality is as follows.…