JOURNAL

Writing & notes

Occasional notes on engineering, design, and the things I build.

Allagritechaiarchitecturebuilding-in-publicclimatedayrlismengineeringfounder
August 14, 2026 · 4 min

Why We Didn't Build Our AI Platform Around AI (Yet)

Every startup says "AI-powered" — here's the honest version: at HiTerra, AI is a thin, deliberate layer on a boring, solid foundation, and the heaviest AI work is deferred on purpose until we have data worth training on.

engineeringaiagritech
June 23, 2026 · 4 min

MRV, Explained for Engineers

A carbon credit is only worth the system that proves it's real — so MRV (measurement, reporting, and verification) is less a climate problem than an engineering one: building data pipelines that survive an adversarial audit.

agritechclimateengineering