Gilbert Ramirez
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Essays on work and tech, and experiments in AI engineering.
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002 — Writing
AI engineering is a cargo cult (Feynman called it in 1974)
In 1974, Richard Feynman gave Caltech's graduates a test for spotting a field where nobody knows anything. AI engineering fails it.
Kafka's 1915 warning about your job
Kafka's Metamorphosis is a story about a family running the five stages of grief on someone still in the next room — which is roughly where we are with AI and jobs.
You're not learning, you're watching summaries (a 1909 book saw it coming)
In 1909, E.M. Forster imagined a world where everyone lives in a pod, learns everything through screens, and is warned to beware of first-hand ideas — it reads like a description of your afternoon.
003 — Portfolio
Complex NTWRK
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Shopify
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ESRI
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Open Source MiraCloud
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City of Sand - Oculus Launch Pad
Lead Developer
VR Steam Engines
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AR-tisanal Coffee
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Quest Hand Tracking
Software Engineer
VR Cornhole
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