Longer pieces about the work, the questions I am chasing, and the turns that led me here.
Speaking at NiDS was not my first time in front of an audience. It was the first time I presented research that was truly mine — after two bumpy years of work, and with more at stake than the details on the slides.
AI can summarize a research paper in seconds. ReCo was created for something slower and more valuable: helping a reader genuinely understand it.
AI agents changed how I program, and that change forced a harder question — could I keep doing this for the rest of my professional life? This is the story of leaving before I knew where I was going, and finding my way back to research.