What I Use

The Machine

M5 Max MacBook Pro, 128GB unified memory.

Configured for running local AI stacks and large-context models.

AI / ML Stack

• • Python + FastAPI
• • LangGraph, LangChain, Pydantic AI
• • LangSmith & Langfuse for observability
• • OpenAI API & Anthropic API
• • Ollama for local models

Vector Databases

• • MongoDB Atlas Vector Search
• • Qdrant
• • Pinecone
• • ChromaDB
• • Weaviate
• • pgvector

Development

• • PyCharm / VS Code
• • Claude Code
• • Warp terminal

Languages & Frameworks

• • Python, primary language now
• • PHP / Laravel, the roots
• • TypeScript
• • FastAPI & React

Cloud & Infrastructure

• • AWS (Lambda, S3, ECS)
• • Google Cloud
• • Kubernetes
• • Terraform
• • Docker
• • GitHub Actions

Knowledge System

Obsidian with custom YAML frontmatter, wiki-link hubs, and epistemic belief-update framing.

Every note has a confidence level and updates as evidence changes, like a Bayesian prior.