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News & Posts

This page collects some of my posts, notes, and updates. Some started and remained as LinkedIn posts, some as internal notes, and some as experiments I decided to share more broadly.

Over time, I'll link individual items to dedicated pages or external content. For now, treat this as a simple index of some of the things I've written.

2026 Posts

• 2026-09-02 — AI Governance Operating Model — A Reference Model for a Public Agency
  Summary of a 150-page AI governance operating model designed and authored in 2026 — ten linked papers, eleven appendices, one intake instrument.
• 2026-09-02 — Patterns for Governing Enterprise AI Adoption
  Nine transferable design patterns for governing enterprise AI adoption — the moves that carry forward across contexts.
• 2026-09-02 — Patterns for Coauthoring with AI
  Patterns for coauthoring at scale with AI on serious writing — what works, what breaks, what the failure modes are.
• 2026-05-27 — AI is technology, not a product
  The framing I landed on after collecting a dozen different definitions of “AI” in my first week on a public-sector program — and what changes when you stop asking “what’s our AI strategy?” the way nobody asks “what’s our internet strategy?” (discuss on LinkedIn)
• 2026-05-26 — AI Fails
  A new running log of AI failures that reveal something about how these systems actually work. Two entries so far.
• 2026-02-12 — LLM Benchmarking
  I've been experimenting with different types and sizes of LLMs solving different problems. It's fascinating how models can perform so differently. I started some basic benchmarking which you can see at apps.databloom.net/ai_benchmark.
• 2026-02-10 — Claude Code /init on an Existing Project
  I pointed Claude Code at my Streamlit apps project, ran /init, and it produced a comprehensive CLAUDE.md entirely from reading the source files. Here's what it came up with.
• 2026-02-03 — AI-Assisted Coding vs Agentic Coding: A Simple Example
  What's the difference between coding with an AI and having an AI code for you? I build the same small Python project two ways to compare the workflows and tradeoffs.
• 2026-01-01 — Advent of Code 2024
  A buddy of mine told me about Advent of Code. In a nutshell, this cool guy named Eric Wastl built a set of small programming puzzles for people to solve. They start pretty easy and get... hard. I got through a bit more than half. You can see my (not great, but working) code at github.com/databloomnet/advent_of_code_2025.

2025 Posts

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• AWS Certified AI Practitioner
• GenAI Demo App
• IBM GenAI Eng Prof Cert
• Vanity/Ghost Jobs
• Be the first to apply!
• NVIDIA Cert
• Some Intro AI & LLM Notebooks
• CISSP Certified

More posts will be added and linked as I migrate content.

Future Structure

Over time, I plan to organize posts into a few themes:

• AI & GenAI – experiments, demos, and product thoughts
• Cloud & Security – architectures, tradeoffs, and patterns
• Product Management – strategy, execution, and team dynamics
• Career & Learning – certifications, courses, and meta-learning

Find Me Elsewhere

• apps.databloom.net - my coding & AI microsite
• LinkedIn - posts, updates, and context
• My Resume - PDF version
• GitHub - sample code and experiments
• Email: firstname at bloomfamily.com (or firstname at thisdomain, which forwards)