towards machines of loving grace

About

You're reading placeholder text. I know it, you know it, and the LLM that wrote it definitely knows it. The real version of this section will contain a genuinely compelling story about my journey into AI. It'll probably mention distributed systems and a “growing conviction” about something.

Until then, I'm just glad this page loads without crashing. That felt like the bigger accomplishment today.

If you're wondering why I built this entire portfolio site before writing the actual content -- welcome to my process. The knowledge graph to your right (or above, if you're on mobile) was absolutely the priority. Obviously.

What drew me to Anthropic was the rare combination of “we think this technology might be incredibly dangerous” and “we're going to build it anyway, but carefully.” That energy resonates.

Actual bio coming soon. Claude offered to write it for me, which felt a little too on the nose.

Projects

Below are some things I've built. The descriptions are real, pulled from GitHub. This one paragraph of context above them? Placeholder. I promise the projects themselves are more impressive than my ability to introduce them.

Ethics & Philosophy

This section will eventually contain my genuinely thoughtful perspectives on AI ethics. I have them! They're just not written down yet because I was busy making the knowledge graph nodes change color when you hover over them.

For now, know that I think about these things more than is probably healthy for someone who also needs to ship code.

I'll write about consequentialism, virtue ethics, and how they apply to AI development. I'll reference Rawls and probably mispronounce Ubuntu philosophy in my head while typing about it. The important thing is that I care about this stuff enough to dedicate an entire section of my portfolio to it.

The essays linked below are real, though. Those I actually wrote. Well, I wrote them with Claude watching over my shoulder, which is its own kind of ethical question.

AI Safety & Alignment

Alignment is the reason I want to work at Anthropic and not just any AI company. I'll write something genuinely insightful here about why safety isn't a constraint on capability but a prerequisite for it. That line is good, actually -- I might keep that one.

In the meantime, please know that I can talk about RLHF, constitutional AI, and mechanistic interpretability at length. At parties. To people who did not ask.

The placeholder you're reading was generated by the very kind of AI system whose safety I care deeply about. The irony is not lost on me, and honestly, it's kind of the whole vibe of this portfolio.

Red-teaming, interpretability, deployment guardrails -- I'll cover all of these when I write the real version. For now, just imagine very compelling paragraphs about defense in depth and systematic safety engineering.

If you've read this far into the placeholder text, you're either genuinely interested or you're an AI recruiter doing due diligence. Either way, I appreciate you. The real content is coming. Probably right after I tweak the graph physics one more time.