Andre's Blog

Thoughts on AI, engineering, and building things.

March 15, 2026 · 4 min read

What Building a CNN Taught Me About Software Engineering

Most people think machine learning is about math. After building a CNN for my thesis, I learned it is mostly about discipline, patience, and a new kind of debugging.

AI/MLPythonComputer Vision

February 20, 2026 · 3 min read

Why I Started Integrating AI Into Everything I Build

A year ago, AI felt like a separate discipline — something you studied, not something you shipped. That changed when I realized how small the integration surface actually is.

AIFull-StackGenerative AI

January 10, 2026 · 5 min read

What a Real Codebase Taught Me

I expected to fix bugs and write small features. I did not expect to own a document management system within the first few weeks. Here is what that experience taught me.

CareerFull-StackASP.NET

December 5, 2025 · 4 min read

Pose Estimation and Body Measurement: How We Hit 95% Accuracy

Getting a machine to measure a human body reliably sounded harder than it turned out to be — mostly because MediaPipe BlazePose did the heavy lifting.

Computer VisionMediaPipePython

November 12, 2025 · 3 min read

Why TypeScript Changed How I Think About Code

I resisted TypeScript longer than I should have. Adding types felt like extra work for the same output. I was wrong — not about the types, but about what they are actually for.

TypeScriptJavaScriptDeveloper Experience