Building a model I never thought I’d build.

I haven’t posted to in a while because I spent the last two weekends (and most days in between) building a multi-model sports analytics system with an LLM,…

Mod 2: We finished the tool — and spun up an app on Replit

Over the last sprint I used an LLM to refactor and fine-tune our real-estate rent-estimation engine. The result is a cleaner, deterministic progression that’s easier to reason about…

Mod 1: From Pseudocode → Working Investor Tool (and what we’ll fix in Mod 2)

🎥 The full walkthrough video is embedded below. Today I shipped Mod 1 of a one-file program called investor_tool.py. In plain English, it: Reads two spreadsheets (actives +…

Pseudocode: A Conceptual Bridge to Better Prompt Engineering

Pseudocode is one of the first things new programmers learn- an informal way to outline an algorithm without worrying about the strict syntax of a programming language. This…

Building a Two-Step Real Estate Investment Analysis Tool (Step 0: Planning)

Before coding, we plan — and in this screencast, I walk through the concept, tools, duration, and first AI-assisted prompt for the project. We’re building a two-step real…

Mod 3 From Raw Data to a Facebook Marketing List in 30 Minutes

oday I walked through a screencast showing how to take assessor and property data, clean it up, and transform it into a Facebook-ready custom audience list. In just…

Mod 2: Data Enhancement with the MCTA API (AAEL Workflow)

Goal: Turn raw MLS sales into a clean, actionable prospect list by enriching records with Assessor data. Why an API?MLS tells you what sold. The Assessor API adds…

Facebook Marketing Campaign: Module 1

💡 FB Refi Marketing Project – Class 2 Recap This week we showed how you can go beyond the obvious fields in ARMLS and pull “hidden” loan-type data…

AI at Warp Speed: From Pair Programming Secrets to Four Years in Four Days and the Need for Guardrails

Lately I have been struck by a trio of articles that perfectly capture the extremes of today’s AI conversation. 1. A ZDNet piece on 60+ hours of pair…

Project Spotlight: Data-Driven Refinance Marketing Campaign

In this video, I do an overview on how to build a Facebook marketing campaign for refinance leads, using real data from ARMLS, MCTA, and the Freddie Mac…