The models work. Now what?
I'm Spencer. I work on everything else. The integration, the workflows, the maintenance, the operating model that decides whether AI actually gets used.
This site hosts some projects, writing, and assorted materials that I tend to reference often.
featured project
read the full project →The Science of Making Tokens
hover a step to explore.deep dive available for each.
Five real unit operations between a quartz mine and the next word a model gives you.
step 01Siemens process
read the breakdown→Turning quartz sand into the purest commodity humanity produces.
- Energy intensity
- ~110 kWh per kg of poly-Si
- Output purity
- 99.9999999% (9N)
- Global output
- ~600 kt / year
- Electronics share
- ~10% (rest goes to solar)
A roughly 200x value-add by mass: quartz sand at $0.10/kg becomes polysilicon at $20-30/kg.
Polysilicon producersWacker · GCL · Hemlock · OCI · Tongwei
Writing
everything- Your SaaS Isn't Dying. It's Going Headless.The agent era is creating a sharp question for every enterprise SaaS vendor: are you a UI or a platform? The answer is being decided right now, in real time. Salesforce just gave one of the most legible answers.May 28, 2026
- Outsmarting AISynthetic content is everywhere now. The skill we used to call 'can you spot it' is becoming 'what does it mean that you can't.' A note on detection, skin in the game, and harm reduction.May 20, 2026
- Making Tokens, Pt. 5: The Forward PassAll of the upstream chemistry, physics, and capital comes to rest on a single computation. One forward pass through the trained network. Out the other end: one token. The whole supply chain priced out per unit.April 30, 2026
- Making Tokens, Pt. 4: A City's Worth of PowerA frontier training cluster is a small city of compute, with the power draw and water demand of a small city to match. The siting decisions are quietly reshaping the US power grid.April 7, 2026
- Making Tokens, Pt. 3: PhotolithographyEighty rounds of printing patterns thinner than a virus on a single piece of glass, in a room cleaner than any operating theater on earth. The most complex object humans make at scale.March 10, 2026
this site, but conversational
Ask it anything. It knows me.
The little pill in the corner is an AI that knows my background, my writing, and my calendar. Cold email is dead. Ask the website.
