Hi, I'm Jim Rosser.
I engineer systems, lead humans, and make things with my hands.
Thoughts
All thoughts →AI Coding Tools: It's Complicated
The tools are neither a panacea nor useless. They're a real capability that rewards the context you bring to them, and punishes its absence.
The Cost of Not Wanting to Hear It
The habit of reaching for a reason a problem doesn't count, instead of trying to understand it, compounds. Each time you do it, you make it a little harder for the next real thing to reach you.
Agents Don't Go in the Org Chart
An AI agent is software. It doesn't go in the org chart any more than your CRM goes in the org chart.
Art
All artwork →Engineering
All projects →Ratio
Cloud-native AI composition platform on AWS. Versioned filesystem, event-driven tool execution, and composable workflows with built-in safety controls.
da-vinci
Python framework for serverless AWS applications. DynamoDB ORM, event bus, exception trapping, CDK constructs. Powers IRIS, Ratio, and other production systems.