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→Purifying silicon into a tightly controlled semiconductor feedstock.
- 9N shorthand
- 1 part per billion impurity
- 11N mass example
- 10 ng impurity per kg
- Product specification
- Individual impurity limits matter
Quartz furnace feed and high-purity quartz for crucibles are different supply chains.
Example suppliersWacker · Hemlock
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. How to reason about per-token energy and cost without hiding the assumptions.April 30, 2026
- Making Tokens, Pt. 4: A City's Worth of PowerPower, cooling, and capital around a training cluster. An H100 scenario with the assumptions and units visible.April 7, 2026
- Making Tokens, Pt. 3: PhotolithographyRepeatedly patterning circuits on silicon. The process control, resource accounting, and yield behind an AI accelerator.March 10, 2026
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