scientist, engineer, architect; photographer; collects complex mechanical things; tries to swim, bike, run; ex-ibm de; founder and ceo at stealth ai startup
San Jose, CA
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@Pauliusztin_ at Decoding AI interviewed me about weave-cli and wrote a thorough review
open.substack.com/pub/decodi…
Read / watch video to see how you can use one CLI to build your entire RAG pipeline.
One CLI to rule all your vector DB needs!
#AI #VectorDB #SemanticSearch #Agents
BONUS post: ClawMax — OpenClaw to the Max!
Been managing 15+ AI agents with OpenClaw. Incredible foundation, but scaling to teams? Chaos.
Built ClawMax: visual dashboard, workflow automation, org structure, templates, etc. + OSS
clawmax.ai
open.substack.com/pub/maximi…
New post: Value of Hackathons — What I Learned from a Dozen+ Hackathons in 2025
Hackathons aren't just competitions. They're accidental research labs.
My full playbook + perspectives from three SF leaders and what's changed in the AI era.
maximilien.substack.com/p/va…
instagram.com/p/DVRtUmaESrt/…
It’s war: DJT v Anthropic
Je suis Claude!
New post: Selecting Right Software Stack Stop picking stacks based on habit. Describe requirements, ask AI agent to recommend stack, then verify reasoning. War stories from Twitter, Cloud Foundry, and AI agent infra. Plus Python v Go v Rust v Java v TS.
open.substack.com/pub/maximi…
BONUS new post: #AI #Agents Meetup SF — One Year Retrospective
9 events. 4,000+ registrations. Speakers from #IBM, #Meta, #Uber, #Microsoft, #Google + startups like #Comet.
What we learned building a community around AI agents—and what's next for 2026.
open.substack.com/pub/maximi…
New post: On Vector Search—AI Agents' Knowledge
MCP solved the services problem. Vector databases are one answer to knowledge.
But VDBs aren't always right. I cover when to use them, when not to, and the chunking problem nobody talks about enough.
maximilien.substack.com/p/on…
New AI Musings post: "AI Coding Assistants"
After a year testing Cursor, Claude Code, TRAE, Amp & others daily: Two paradigms: IDE vs CLI. One constraint: context windows. My take: 50-80% productivity gains—but testing discipline is non-negotiable.
maximilien.substack.com/p/ai…
After 30 years at IBM, I retired and left to build an AI Agents startup.
Now I'm sharing what I'm learning in a new Substack: AI Musings
→ Coding assistants
→ Agent infrastructure
→ Builder's perspective
No hype. Just signal.
maximilien.substack.com/p/in… 🚀
Trump is BaTman!
I did not vote for Trump. Never did.
But I also try to not be partisan. If he does something good. I can appreciate.
If Venezuelan people get to choose a better path for their future this was a good thing IMO.
And for all that kudos to BaTman
It’s good to have hobbies… one of mine has elevated to passion / obsession (in a good way). Watch this video to understand—my section starts minute 7 or so #leica #streetphotos #film #analogphotography
youtu.be/1aSU_BZtK-4
Be there to learn about the latest in AI, ML, and data engineering
Cc: @davenielsen @tmmoore_1 @bradtopol meetup.com/unstructured-data…
Introducing v2 of the i18n4go Golang package. Streamlined and more consistent commands, various bug fixes, and ease of use updates. Read all about it on latest #IBMDeveloper post with NanaAmfo
developer.ibm.com/articles/a… – at San Jose, CA
Happy to share the news of the launch of the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance (PQCA) pqca.org
Along with colleagues from #AWS, #NVIDIA, #Cisco, #Google, #IntellectEU, #QuSecure, #SandboxAQ, #UOfWaterloo & others we at #IBMQuantum will make the world #QuantumSafe – at San Jose, CA
#KubeCon #CNCFCon 2023 NA is less than two weeks away in the Windy City.
If you plan to attend, see this blog post for a roadmap of IBM’s many contributions. Including w.r.t. #AI and #Quantum and #QuantumSafe.
See you in #Chicago on November 6-10
developer.ibm.com/blogs/awb-… – at Monterey, CA
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#lfmembersummit meeting with @maximilien for the first time in person, catching up with IBM and hobbies
Announcing the availability of #IBMQuantum online course introducing #QuantumSafe #cryptography on the #IBMQuantumLearning site.
It balances a semi-rigorous introduction with practical (live Jupyter code) Python examples.
learning.quantum-computing.i… – at Paradise, NV
Good line up of practical LLM / AI / ML advices from practitioners at the #LLMAvalanche meetup at the @Jewseum as part of the #DataAISummit in #SanFrancisco
Heard of #Ray? Ray.io. It’s an open source frameworks behind #OpenAI & #IBM’s #QuantumServerless.
#RaySummit 2023 is Sept 18-19 in San Francisco. Register and join me for talk on using #Knative and Ray to run serverless workloads
raysummit.anyscale.com/agend…
