Hey, I'm Michael
Unleash Your Abilities in the AI Era
I’m an engineering leader in Singapore writing about agentic AI, leading teams that do their best work, and living deliberately. Everything I publish is here, newest first.
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Scaled Agile Framework
I’m not SAFe-certified. However, as an Agile enthusiast who has scaled engineering teams and delivered complex products, I’ve studied SAFe extensively and found it to be the most …
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Fun Things To Do With Self-Hosted Generative AI
Weekends are my time to break things and build things. My homelab runs a full generative AI stack - models, workflows, UIs - and I use that freedom to experiment with stuff that commercial services …
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Transforming Industries with Text and Image Generative AI
I’ve been running Stable Diffusion and language models on my homelab for a few months now, and the thing that keeps striking me isn’t the output quality - although that’s improved …
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Tech Debt: From a Technical Jargon to Real-World Impacts
I recently gave a presentation at my company about tech debt - sharing knowledge, techniques, and experiences on how to manage it properly and efficiently. The response convinced me to write this up …
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What Can We Do With Self-Hosted ChatGPT
A few weeks ago, I started running my own version of ChatGPT on my homelab. The first attempt was Meta’s LLaMA model in its Alpaca-6B variant - and honestly, the response quality left a lot to …
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The Modern Leader
There’s a pattern I’ve seen play out more than once. A team ships a big release, leadership celebrates, and within weeks the strongest engineers start disengaging. They become quieter in …
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