Documenting my journey in learning and building technical systems with AI

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seb — 23 · streaming ops by day · cloud & AI after hours

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building on AWS · cutting through the AI hype · uncovering what actually works

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Things I run: a Proxmox homelab, a local LLM stack on RDNA4, this site on S3 + CloudFront. Repos and diagrams, not descriptions.

My knowledge base: research, findings, and evidence-backed systems for learning and retaining efficiently.

Every week there’s a new AI tool to jump on. This tracks which ones actually earn a place in my work, and which are just hype.

RESULT · 2026-06

Active recall took me from no cloud background to a passed AWS SAA in ~6 weeks.