Sharing the Work in Public
I like resumes, but I love links. Here is how I use a live report, this blog, and an open knowledge base as a gentle way to show how I think and build—without a big marketing machine behind me.
Hi, I'm Victoria
Writing about building products with AI, shipping full-stack software, and the craft of product & project management.
Recent Posts
Tabs, Cognitive Load, and Choosing a Simpler Stack First
My market report grew past a thousand lines, and one section carried most of the scroll. Here is how I made it kinder to read on a phone—without jumping straight to a big client-side framework.
I Built a Financial Defense System With AI Agents During a Real Market Crisis
When my financial report hit 100/100 CRITICAL risk and I had a real 401(k) question, I stopped treating the project as a learning exercise and started building for real stakes.
I Audited My Own Context Engineering Setup and Found It Barefoot
We published a blog post about 8 context engineering components. Then we audited our own workspace against the framework. Six of seven were strong. One was barely there.
Attention Is All You Need — But It's Not All You Control
The transformer paper told us how AI models think. Context engineering tells us what they see. These are two different layers of the same stack, and confusing them costs you.
Why I Plan Before I Build (Even When the AI Can Just Do It)
Plan mode in Cursor isn't a solo pause — it's where human and AI align on direction before execution. Here's why that collaboration matters, and what I do when the UI and the chat disagree.
Projects I've Built
Real projects built with AI agents — each one an experiment in shipping software, learning a stack, and solving problems that matter to me.
What it is
A searchable knowledge base for learning Cursor and AI-assisted work — from beginner installation guides to deep technical articles on LLM architectures, agentic AI, and context engineering, backed by 100+ scholarly sources.
Why I built it
To create a free, open resource that serves three audiences at once: non-technical people trying Cursor for the first time, intermediate users leveling up their workflow, and engineers who want research papers and architectural depth — all in one site with persona-aware content that adapts to the reader.
What's inside
Tech stack
Pain points left to solve
- Add summary tabs to all content pages (currently ~9 of ~20)
- Analytics to understand which content people actually read
What it is
A personal blog for my mom — a space where she can collect and share her thoughts, memories, and photographs for later generations.
Why I built it
To create something meaningful for family, and to learn a different tech stack — pure HTML/CSS with no framework, neural text-to-speech for audio narration, and image processing for scanned photographs from the 1950s.
Tech stack
Pain points left to solve
- Building a true CMS so Mom can add her own posts without code
What it is
A financial markets aggregator and risk assessment tool that pulls live data, scores market risk across 80+ assets, and generates a static HTML report — readable by anyone, not just traders.
Why I built it
To learn how to be an AI builder end-to-end: data ingestion from multiple APIs, a rule-based risk engine, Claude-powered narrative analysis, and automated deployment — all shipping to a live public URL.
Data sources
Tech stack
Pain points left to solve
- Reduce cognitive load — the report is data-rich but can overwhelm
- Optimize for mobile — wide tables still need horizontal scroll