Building with AI

How to actually build with AI. Hands-on engineering and applied workflows for real environments. Integration, automation pipelines, multi-agent workflows, and what it takes to deploy intelligence into products and operations that have to work.

LunarSite: An end-to-end ML pipeline for lunar south pole landing site selection

ALAN SCOTT ENCINAS CASE STUDY · LUNARSITE (FULL PIPELINE) LunarSite: An end-to-end ML pipeline for lunar south pole landing site selection Sim-to-real terrain segmentation, fine-tuned crater detection, PSR-aware XGBoost site scoring, and calibrated uncertainty — validated against NASA’s Artemis III…

Space and Defense Building with AI Case Studies

I built an AI agent that reads my CRM emails and scores leads for $0.01 each

I built an AI agent that reads my CRM emails and scores leads for $0.01 each It scored 1,051 leads in one run for $15.07 — and surfaced $82K+ in pipeline I didn’t know I had. The problem I run…

Business and Entrepreneurship All Writing Building with AI

I Built an App in Four Days and Sold It in One

This story isn't about speed for the sake of speed. It's about what happens when friction disappears. AI didn't invent the idea. It didn't decide the architecture, the revenue model, or the constraints. What it did was remove the bottlenecks that had stopped me from shipping for years.