What I'm going to build
A numbered list of small projects at the intersection of generative AI and space, posted so I can be held to it.
I’m six months into an Engineering Fellowship at a16z. Before this I was an engineer in the Space Force. The fellowship has been a lot of pitches and a lot of time with companies. Good work. But I haven’t built anything of my own since I started, and that bugs me.
So here’s the fix: a public list. Each project below is small enough to finish in a couple of weekends and specific enough that you can tell whether I did it. As each one ships, the entry gets a link to the write-up.
- [Project name] - [What it is, in one line. Why it’s interesting, in one more.]
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Two rules. Real data, not toy data - TLEs, imagery, filings, telemetry, whatever the problem actually runs on. And write it up either way. The ones that don’t work are usually the more useful posts.
If you’re building in this space and want to compare notes, my email is on the contact page.