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Your AI Assistant Is Only as Good as Its Interface

I switched my AI assistant from Telegram to Discord. The model didn't change. Everything else did.

Feeling Like a Beginner in Two Worlds (And Why That's the Point)

I'm an M2 at UCLA who spent years in a BCI lab. This week I stood in an OR feeling completely lost — and I think that's exactly where I should be.

AI Tools in Clerkship: What I Actually Use

I gave my AI assistant root access to my life

What happens when you stop treating AI like a chatbot and start treating it like an on-call engineer who happens to live in your Mac mini.

Flat RAG Is Failing Medical Students

First Aid is a tree. Your AI study tool treats it like a bag of words. Here's why that matters — and what a smarter pipeline would look like.

I turned 25,000 texts into a book

How I spent my day off building a relationship archive with AI — and why the hardest part wasn't the code.

Building AI Tools for Medical Education

Reflections on designing LLM-powered applications that help medical students learn more effectively — from clinical chart review to interactive case studies.