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Latest talk: It Works! Now What? Fast Iteration for AI Capabilities in Airflow (Airflow Summit 2026)
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Talks: Give Your AI Agent an Exam Before You Give It a Job

Analyticon EMEA 2026 - Amazon - Luxembourg
evals
talks

Before you let an AI agent work unsupervised in a domain, give it an exam: versioned questions with assertions that say what good enough means.

Sep 15, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi

Talks: It Works! Now What? Fast Iteration for AI Capabilities in Airflow

Airflow Summit 2026 - Austin, TX
airflow
talks

Getting an agent to do something is easy now. Making it cheap to change takes executable checks, the right box, and sometimes no inference at all.

Sep 1, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Add a Skip and a Note to Every Question

productivity

Why every survey question should allow a skip and a free-text note, and how a coding agent makes it cheap to run.

Aug 19, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Find The Loop

engineering
genai

Using a cloud LLM agent to benchmark and tune a local LLM setup.

Jul 18, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Solving the Right Problem: Economist Edition, Part 1

economics
genai

What an economics team delegates to AI coding agents, what they never delegate, and why identification stays with the scientist.

Jun 9, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi

Traditional team vs Paul MacCready: one learning cycle per year vs 20+ per day. The breakthrough was shortening the learning loop. Generated with ChatGPT.

Solving The Right Problem

engineering

Sometimes the most important thing is learning how to iterate fast, in order to fail faster and more often with little penalty.

Jun 7, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi

Talks: AI Coding Agents in an Economics Team

NABE TEC EU 2026 - Amsterdam
economics
talks

What economists delegate to AI coding agents, what they never delegate, and how exam-first iteration keeps them in control.

May 29, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi

From scribble to searchable: building a sketch-to-text Agent Skill

genai
productivity
workflows

Why evals matter more than the skill itself, illustrated with a small personal workflow.

Mar 16, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Building Agent Skills: Intent, Determinism, and Stability

genai
workflows
reliability

A mental model and decision tree for building agent skills incrementally: start with intent, add deterministic tools, then use tests and AI evals to reduce drift and risk.

Feb 13, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Measure First, Optimize Last: My Approach to AI Evals

engineering
genai
evals

A pain-driven approach to AI evals: measure first, constrain risk, iterate fast, optimize last.

Feb 10, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Get the Value of a High-Quality Audit, All the Time

engineering
productivity
genai
ops

Turn pain points into repeatable questions and build a lightweight taxonomy of your world.

Jan 29, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Reducing Error Compounding in GenAI Systems

engineering
genai
evals

How chaining LLM calls compounds errors, and why replacing probabilistic steps with deterministic ones improves reliability.

Jan 28, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi

Stop Reformatting Markdown When Pasting into Slack

productivity
Slack only pastes rich formatting when the clipboard advertises text/html, otherwise it treats everything as plain text.
Jan 16, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Fix: pip hangs in WSL (IPv6 / gai.conf)

troubleshooting
pip install hangs in WSL with no useful error, often after it starts fetching from files.pythonhosted.org.
Jan 13, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Talks: Toward a Shared Vision for LLM Evaluation in the Airflow Ecosystem

Airflow Summit 2025 - Lightning Talk (5 min)
airflow
talks

Why the Airflow community needs an agreed-upon way to benchmark LLM tools and agents, and what that could look like.

Sep 9, 2025
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Using Data Build Tool (dbt) to Accelerate & Scale Science

data-science
engineering
This post is part of a series: “Factory of Domain Experts”:
Sep 1, 2025
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Use aider for free with your local LLMs or cheaply with OpenRouter

genai
code
Many people use LLM (Large Language Models) services to code at work but don’t necessarily see a path to use them at home on a budget.
Jul 6, 2025
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Merge and Forget

engineering
After your change is approved and enters the delivery pipeline, you should be able to forget it.
May 18, 2024
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

No News Is Good News

engineering
Do not check whether things are fine.
May 17, 2024
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Set a Meeting Budget

productivity
Too many recurring meetings drain your week’s productivity.
Mar 1, 2023
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Get notifications in ubuntu when command line tasks end

devops
Often, when working in the terminal, you’ll find yourself running a command that takes a non-trivial amount of time and you don’t want to just stare at the screen until it…
Apr 16, 2019
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Accept a self-signed certificate with git

devops
Some time ago I came into an issue where people served git repositories in a local network using apache but used a self-signed certificate for the server.
Feb 11, 2018
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
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