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Screenshot of a custom financial planning dashboard built for an MS Finance case study, with the Tutorial Mode button highlighted in the header.

From 'Do It For Me' to 'Do It With Me'

The cognitive-atrophy worry is real, but only if you let AI do it for you. Here's what changed when I asked it to do it with me instead.

By KC Madsen 09 May 2026
Architectural diagram of an agentic AI workflow.

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The Evolution of an AI Workflow

Two attempts at the same AI hiring helper, a year apart. The first failed, the second shipped — and the difference wasn't that AI got better.

By KC Madsen 05 May 2026
A watercolor mouse in blue overalls holding a chocolate-chip cookie in one hand and the Google Cloud logo in the other.

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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (and a Google Cloud Account)

It started with my son's Minecraft server. Five Google Cloud services later, here's the chain reaction.

By KC Madsen 05 May 2026
How an LLM Brought My Wall Tablets Back to Life

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How an LLM Brought My Wall Tablets Back to Life

Six years ago I yanked my ADT panels off the walls and replaced them with Amazon Fire tablets running custom dashboards. When the dashboard service quietly shut down, my tablets became useless screensavers — until I sat down with an LLM.

By KC Madsen 04 May 2026
The Efficient Frontier App: two portfolio cards above an interactive efficient-frontier chart with a Monte Carlo sampled cloud of points and a CML line.

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Notes from Building the Efficient Frontier App

I started this project thinking the hard part would be the math. I was building a small app on top of J.P. Morgan's Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions — the dense annual report institutional investors use to think about expected returns and risk. The idea: take that dataset, surface

By KC Madsen 02 May 2026
KC's Ongoing Experiments
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