Adam Bourg
Principal Engineer building AI systems that run real businesses — agentic workflows, not slideware.
AI / MLSoftware / engineering practiceJavaScript / TypeScript
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- 22 from 12 Sep 2023 to 17 Oct 2026
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- I Mined 12 Months of My Own Google Voice History to Sell Leads. The First Version of My Report Would Have Cost Me the Deal.
- RAG vs Fine-Tuning: The Question I Get Asked Most, Answered Honestly
- I Tested AI Code Review Against My Own Agentic Workflow. Here’s What It Actually Catches.
- AI Strategy for Companies That Don’t Have a Chief AI Officer
- I Wrote a 150-Line Python Bot So My Idle Game Earns Coins While I Sleep
- When One AI Agent Isn’t Enough: A Practical Look at Multi-Agent Systems
- Orchestration Is the Part of ‘Agentic AI’ No Product Demo Shows You
- AI Compliance for Businesses That Aren’t Big Enough to Have a Compliance Department
- The AI Risks Worth Losing Sleep Over (and the Ones You Can Ignore)
- AI Governance Doesn’t Need a 40-Page Policy Doc. Here’s What Actually Matters.
- I Turned 230 Podcast Episodes Into a $33 RAG Pipeline Instead of Paying $600/Month for Coaching
- AI // SECURITY // SMALL-BUSINESS Your Employees Are Already Using AI Without You Knowing. Here's the Actual Risk. “Shadow AI” is a term that’s been climbing hard in search data lately: nearly 3,000 searches a month and rising. What is shadow AI? In one sentence: employees... READ WRITE-UP →
- JAVASCRIPT // NODE.JS // ENGINEERING // PERFORMANCE JavaScript Doesn't Have Memory Leaks. Your References Do. “JavaScript is garbage collected, so I don’t have to think about memory” is one of the more expensive lies engineers tell themselves. I’ve been writing JavaScript since I... READ WRITE-UP →
- AI // AGENTIC-WORKFLOWS // STRATEGY What 'Agentic AI' Actually Means (and Why Most Vendor Pitches Get It Wrong) “Agentic AI” is the single most-searched AI term I found when I went digging through market data recently: 90,000+ searches a month, and rising fast. It’s also, in... READ WRITE-UP →
- AI // AGENTIC-WORKFLOWS // STRATEGY // SMALL-BUSINESS I Pressure-Tested Six Local Business Verticals With AI Market Research in One Afternoon I’m a Principal Engineer, and I was about to build an AI-powered service business for local businesses in the Denver metro. Before writing a line of code, I..
- SEO // AUTOMATION // SOFTWARE // 3.0 // SMALL // BUSINESS I Rebuilt My Entire Local SEO Strategy in One Session. Here's What That Looks Like. Let me be direct. I’m a Principal Engineer. I run a junk removal and scrap metal business on the side. And until recently, my website was a single... READ WRI
- M4MAC // AI // AUTOMATION // ENGINEERING Master Guide: Building a Local AI Content Pipeline on M4 Apple Silicon If you just unboxed an M4 MacBook Pro and restored it from an Intel Time Machine backup, your terminal is probably a lie. You’re running a beast of... READ WRITE-UP →
- AI // SOFTWARE3.0 // M4MAC // PRODUCTIVITY Why I Nuked My OpenAI Quota for a Slick Local Vector Search I’m a senior engineer. I’m also “Software 3.0” pilled. That means I don’t want to spend my life doing the “grind” of manual documentation or digging through my... READ WRITE-UP →
- AUTOMATION // SOFTWARE3.0 // GITHUBACTIONS // SOVEREIGNTY The Sovereign Publisher: How I Automated My Content Pipeline with GitHub Actions Building a technical audience is a marathon, but the “grind” of manually cross-posting content across platforms is a sprint that nobody wants to run every week.
2025 1
2023 2
- CHATGPT // SQL Using Chatgpt to write SQL Stack Overflow sucks. The code is sometimes helpful, many times its not, many times it’s plain wrong. GitHub Copilt and ChatGPT are excellent tools and are really useful... READ WRITE-UP →
- CONVERSATIONS // AI // PROMPT-ENGINEERING Conversations with an AI: Part 1 I might be crazy, but I find that I talk to my computer and they talk back, yes they. I talk to multiple models (I hope my wife... READ WRITE-UP →