The AI Paradox: Why Capability Doesn't Equal Throughput

Why increased capability doesn't always translate to increased output, and where the real bottlenecks have moved. Last updated: 2025-12-27

From Flask to Go: Rewriting thebuildmaestro.com

The story of migrating thebuildmaestro.com from Python/Flask to a Go-based static site generator, keeping the same content-first philosophy but with better performance and simpler deployment. Last updated: 2025-12-27

From RAG to Ambient Intelligence: Why I Moved the Work to the Front of the Pipeline

Why I gave up on traditional retrieval-first RAG and started classifying intent at ingestion time instead. Notes from building Nogura. Last updated: 2026-04-26

Go Projects Overview

A quick overview of various Go projects I've been working on in my goprojects directory, covering web development, database tools, automation, and more. Last updated: 2025-12-27

From InstallShield Battles to Go and Postgres: A Tour of My Old War Stories

A quick recap of the older Build Maestro posts that still matter, plus the problems that shaped how I build systems today. Last updated: 2025-12-22

Welcome to thebuildmaestro.com

I prefer to have control over my web presence rather than using a corporate blogging "social network" like tumblr, facebook that feel more like government forms asking for private data. This is thebuildmaestro.com Last updated: 2018-02-08