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One report outside our field, and that single week was the beginning. AI drafts, and a human verifies to the end what must not be wrong — the discipline that became the backbone of _y Tower.
First issue · Coming soonA lab where real engineering keeps sliding behind a flood of requirements. How a team of three doing the work of ten put AI back — not as a tool, but as hands and feet.
Up next · Coming soonThinking the problem was too few people, I gathered as many as thirteen — but after they scattered, only I was left. Half a year of filling that space with AI instead of people.
Up next · Coming soonA story that began with one report led to the lectern and a book. A record of the single conviction found at the end of it.
Up next · Coming soonA two-month first-pass patent review, done in a day. Instead of asking the AI for the answer, we had it erase what was plainly irrelevant, and kept the risky 5% in human hands.
Up next · Coming soonReviewing other people’s beginnings is my job — and yet my own ‘someday’ kept getting pushed back. Why a newsletter became the first step back toward the people I care about.
Up next · Coming soonCertification research once meant digging through dozens of PDFs by hand. Public data and a free server cut it to seconds — and leaving AI out made it cheaper and more accurate.
Up next · Coming soonFrom industry news and regulations to integrated schedules, field pilots, and an issue tracker — everything the lab runs, on one dashboard. What we learned, and what did not work.
Up next · Coming soonAll I built was a bid-alert service for Korea's public procurement portal — then data pipelines, payments, email, and marketing followed one after another. A record of eleven months of trial and error, and what grew out of it.
Up next · Coming soonWe couldn’t simply trust the list the patent team had filtered for us, so we pulled the data ourselves and built a database. When the review was done, ten new patents remained — and so did one question.
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