Derrick Lin's Blog https://derricklin.dev/blog Thoughts on building health tech, AI in medical education, and the intersection of software engineering and medicine. en-us Your AI Assistant Is Only as Good as Its Interface https://derricklin.dev/blog/2026-03-14-your-ai-assistant-is-only-as-good-as-its-interface https://derricklin.dev/blog/2026-03-14-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. Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Feeling Like a Beginner in Two Worlds (And Why That's the Point) https://derricklin.dev/blog/2026-03-07-beginner-in-two-worlds https://derricklin.dev/blog/2026-03-07-beginner-in-two-worlds 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. Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Tools in Clerkship: What I Actually Use https://derricklin.dev/blog/2026-02-28-ai-tools-in-clerkship https://derricklin.dev/blog/2026-02-28-ai-tools-in-clerkship Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT I gave my AI assistant root access to my life https://derricklin.dev/blog/2026-02-25-ai-root-access https://derricklin.dev/blog/2026-02-25-ai-root-access 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. Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Flat RAG Is Failing Medical Students https://derricklin.dev/blog/2026-02-25-flat-rag-is-failing-med-students https://derricklin.dev/blog/2026-02-25-flat-rag-is-failing-med-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. Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT I turned 25,000 texts into a book https://derricklin.dev/blog/2026-02-21-i-turned-25000-texts-into-a-book https://derricklin.dev/blog/2026-02-21-i-turned-25000-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. Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Building AI Tools for Medical Education https://derricklin.dev/blog/building-ai-tools-for-medical-education https://derricklin.dev/blog/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. Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT