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Why Capable AI Keeps Getting Blocked
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I spent ten years teaching college English. Now I teach developers, search engines, and AI systems to understand each other.
Writing about developer experience, AI tooling, and the communities that make tech worth working in.
Currently Developer Experience Lead, AI Platform at Paper Compute
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