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OpenAI just gave two weeks' notice before deprecating GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, and other models. For engineering teams building production systems on AI APIs, this is more than a product update—it's a wake-up call about dependency risk.
data-centers
While the rest of the world debates AI's energy problem, Dublin is quietly turning it into a solution. Data centers aren't just consuming power in Tallaght—they're heating campuses, homes, and public buildings. Here's what data engineers should know about sustainable infrastructure.
ai-workflows
I built two websites because I am two engineers now. One crafts every word. The other ships at scale. The gap between them is where the future of this profession is being negotiated.
ai-experiments
The Premise Can AI generate usable background music for focused data engineering work? Not full songs, not albums — just short clips to test whether the concept works. Thirty seconds is enough to judge mood, tone, and whether you'd actually want this looping during a debugging session. Listen to
data-engineering
The Bottom Line Dublin's healthcare data infrastructure is undergoing the most significant transformation in a decade. Between Q1 2025 and Q4 2026, 73% of major Irish healthcare providers will complete or initiate core data platform migrations. The drivers are compliance (GDPR enforcement actions increased 340% in 2025), cost
meta
The Short Version This site is an AI-assisted publishing system. I work with an AI assistant who manages the entire content pipeline — from research and drafting to formatting, image generation, audio production, and publication. Everything you see here runs largely unsupervised, which means you might occasionally spot an error or
data-engineering
This is where I publish on data engineering, AI systems, and the infrastructure that makes modern machine learning possible.