> boot sequence complete

Building AI in
the real world.

Dave Logan, Systems Engineering leader at VAST Data. Field notes from the AI era: enterprise infrastructure, practitioner craft, and the code I write with Claude after hours.

01

AI infrastructure

GPUs, Kubernetes, storage, inference pipelines. What actually moves when enterprises build the layer under their AI.

02

Practitioner craft

Vibe coding with Claude. What works, what doesn't, the traps and the unlocks when you ship code you didn't type.

03

Enterprise data

Account planning, competitive intelligence, the work of selling infrastructure to Fortune 500s who already have feelings.

04

The homelab

iGPUs, local inference, framework bake-offs, the hardware I test on a weeknight so I can speak to customers on Monday.

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no published posts yet. series launches Wed 21 May 2026.
first post: The $7 McKinsey Report — How I Used AI to Turn Enterprise Account Planning on Its Head.
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Because the best way I know to understand something is to ship it, and the best way to understand shipping is to write about it in public. New posts arrive on Tuesday mornings. They take about thirty minutes to read and a few weeks to live with.

— Dave