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AI Product Demo/MVP/Prototype Builder

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Got an idea you want to see working, not just written up in a document or a pitch deck? This is the service for that. Contract me to build your demo, MVP, or prototype, instead of hiring a full-time AI Product Engineer to do it. You get the thing built and in front of real users, without carrying a permanent salary just to find out whether the idea has legs.

Job Hunting Is Such a Pain. So I Let an AI Do the Boring Bit.

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0100

Job hunting is such a pain.

There, I said it. So many different websites, so many different layouts, and every single one wants you to fill in the same details all over again. Name, email, work history, upload the CV, now type the CV back in by hand because the parser mangled it. Again. And again. (You know the drill.)

I just got curious about exploring some new opportunities, because I’ve learned never to put all my eggs in one basket. But the moment I started, I remembered exactly why it’s such a slog. The admin is soul-destroying.

Market Breadth, Market Condition Signals, and Market Regime

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:30:00 +0100

Before I automated anything, I spent a good 6 months just studying the market. No code, no system yet, just me and the charts. 2,000+ hours, easily. 10 to 12 hours a day, every day, just trying to understand how the overall market moves.

Everything I came up with came out of watching one thing: the QQQ, my market monitor. It turned into three separate angles, and this post walks through all three. If you want the engineering side of how the platform itself got built, that story is over here. This one is about the studying that came first. And when studying each one, I also studied hundreds of stocks alongside it, to understand their movement over time together with the QQQ’s, across multiple timeframes. Hence why the study took 6 months and not 6 days!

How to Actually Build Communities. This is the Way.

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:30:00 +0100

What if I told you I have built the biggest Brazilian Zouk community online?

Brazilian Zouk is one of those modern niche dances that still has not really picked up momentum. And building a community in a fresh market, from nothing, is probably the hardest thing you can pick to do. Most businesses take the easy path. They grab a slice of someone else’s already-baked pie. The pioneers do the opposite. We walk into the unknown and build the thing that is not there yet.

AGIT Story Guidelines

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Asians & Gingers in Tech (AGIT) is a feature series published by HOIBOY AI LTD (UK Companies House 17211412), the company behind hoiboy.uk. When you send us your story through the “Get featured” form, these guidelines are the deal between you and us. The consent box on the form is where you agree to them, so please read this first.

The short version: tell your own true story, be kind about the people in it, keep your old employer’s secrets, and you get the final say before anything goes public.

#1 Hoi aka Hoiboy

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0100

Before all the AI stuff, I spent eight years at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. My title said Data Centre Engineer the whole time. Flat organisation, and I never needed a new title to prove what I could do.

Superpowers: ADHD and OCD for getting shit done properly.

Current role: AI Product & Automation Engineer.

What I quietly did: the role outgrew the title almost straight away. Data Centre Engineer on paper, but in practice the infrastructure architect, the procurement lead, the project manager (PMP certified) and the data centre manager, all at once, running the sites largely on my own for years. I designed and rolled out Canonical’s cloud data centres across London, Boston and Taipei, mentored the engineers who came after me, coordinated remotely with everyone from contractors to the COO across disciplines and teams scattered all over the world, and negotiated the supplier deals down hard enough to save the business a small fortune. Whatever I was handed, I gave back in better shape than I found it. Nobody threw a party for any of it. The work just spoke for itself, even when the title didn’t. That is usually how it goes for the quiet ones.

Chung Ying

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Client: Chung Ying.

Work in progress

This one is still being built. The full write-up, the problem, how I helped, and the outcome, will land here once it ships.

I Bounced Off 3D Tools for 20 Years. AI Changed That.

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:05:00 +0100

I have been circling 3D modelling tools for twenty years. Blender, Maya, SketchUp, I have had a proper go at all three, and not one of them ever really stuck. Too many buttons, too many panels, too many settings I did not understand, and a learning curve that felt more like a cliff. Last month, on a three day job, one of them finally clicked. The thing that got me over the wall was AI.

Singer & Steel

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Client: Singer & Steel, an architecture and design practice run by Holly and Derek. Base-only harness managed by HOIBOY AI LTD.

The problem

Singer & Steel spend real money and real time on every project, working with an interior designer to get each space looking the way they envision it. That is how good design happens, no complaint there. But they had a fair question: could AI take some of that on? Could you automate the 3D modelling of their architectural designs in Blender or SketchUp, turn concepts into visuals faster, and cut the per project cost and the back and forth?

Client Harnesses Drift. Here's the Monitoring Dashboard That Catches It.

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0100

I build AI harnesses for clients. A harness is the simple scaffolding around Claude Code that makes it actually useful for real work: the rules, the guardrails, the workflow, the standards it has to follow. I have written before about why you even need one. This post is about what happens after I hand one over.

Because once I hand a harness over, it does not live on my machine. It lives on theirs.

The Market Wouldn't Tell Me When to Size Up. The Setup Did.

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:20:00 +0100

The last post ended on an open question. I wanted to size my risk to the market. Press harder when the whole thing was strong, pull back when it was getting stretched. So I graded the whole market to find that signal. It was noise. (Binned. You can read the wreckage in the market-grading post.)

But the question never went away. When do I press, and when do I ease off?

Maturity Grading Worked on Stocks. The Market? Pure Noise.

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:30:00 +0100

I spent about 30 hours, pretty much non stop, trying to build one new market signal. Claude Code kept coming back with the same answer: fail, fail, fail. Then one time it thought it had something. So I pushed harder, made it prove the thing against slice after slice of my backtest data, and back it came. Negative again. More fail. Eventually we gave up.

Binned. The only thing I got out of those 30 hours is this blog and one lesson worth keeping.

How I Analysed Backtested Data To Build A Maturity Graded Framework

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:45:00 +0100

I built a maturity grade for my trading system. It passed every test I threw at it. Then I watched it run for a couple of weeks, looked at the actual entries it was lighting up, and realised it was telling me almost nothing useful.

Not broken broken. Just… useless.

No automated test caught that. I did, with my own eyes. And that one gut-check kicked off 7 full days of ripping the thing out and rewiring it from scratch.

Business Automation Services

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Not every business owner or team wants to learn or use AI. Some are just too busy, and they would rather it was handled for them. No weakness in that: successful owners are successful because they delegate. They hire the right people with the right skills to add value, focus on the management side, and bring in the right resources to make their team more effective. Handing the AI part to me is the same move. That is where this service comes in. Too busy to learn AI? Contract me as your AI Engineer and I build the automation for you, instead of teaching your staff to build their own.

CU Architects

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Client: CU Architects, an architectural practice run by Chan. Managed and Automated by HOIBOY AI LTD.

The problem

Chan had been meaning to have a website since 2013, when she started her architectural practice. More than a decade of good intentions and never the time to actually get it done. Running a practice eats every hour, so the website kept sliding to the bottom of the list, year after year.

AI Jargon for Noobs

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0100

I have been knee-deep in AI for about three years now, building with it most days, and I’m still nowhere near the bottom of it. Tip of the iceberg, honestly.

So this is not a lecture. It’s my plain-English map of the jargon, the words that get thrown about like everyone was born knowing them. This is my understanding, dumbed right down. If I’ve got one wrong, brilliant, shoot me down (I learn that way).

Why You Should Not Use AI to Write About Human Experiences

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:55:00 +0100

So here is a slightly funny one.

A while back I built myself a voice persona. Basically a profile of how I write, my tone, my quirks, my bad habits, the lot. I even built a whole framework around it and wrote about that here. And I got a bit excited. Whoa, cool. Maybe now I can get AI to write my blogs for me. My articles. Even my marketing. All in my own voice and personality. Sounded brilliant at the time.

The Tech Stack I Use to Build an Automated Trading System

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:25:00 +0100

I recently gave a talk to the London Investments and Traders Group. Afterwards I ended up in a few smaller chats with other techies, and the same question kept coming back: what did you actually use to build the thing? What data providers, what languages, what libraries, what tools?

So here it is. The parts list.

If you want the story of how it all came together (the crashes, the rebuilds, the things I broke and then had to fix), that one already exists: building a production-grade trading system. This post is just the breakdown. What each piece is, and what it’s there for.

Talk: Using AI to Build Trading Tools

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:45:00 +0100

On Saturday the 13th of June 2026, I gave a talk to the London Investments and Traders Group. The topic was “Using AI to build trading tools”.

It turned out fruitful. I originally created this talk to be only about 30 minutes long, and left 30 minutes for Q&A. It went on for 2+ hours, with many questions, discussions and debates. For me that was very positive feedback, because so many people were interested and very engaged. Which is why they managed to hang around for that long lol.

Why Does AI Hallucination Keep Happening?

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:30:00 +0100

You have used an AI chat at some point. And at some point, it forgot what it was supposed to be doing. It ignored things you asked it to do. It made stuff up. It invented a feature you never asked for, then carried on like that was always the plan. And once in a while it just ignores you completely, no matter what you type into it.

Is 10 Years of Backtest Data Too Much? My Overfitting Tests

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:30:00 +0100

Four months ago, my trading system went live. At that point it was running on a flat 10 years of backtest data (a backtest is replaying your strategy over historical data to see how it would have done), right up to today’s date, for all 3 timeframes I trade: daily, weekly, and monthly. Then I decided to put it on pause for a few weeks, because I realised I hadn’t done any overfitting tests, and I had optimised my system according to that one slice of data.

AI Burnout Is No Joke

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0100

When I started using Claude Code, I didn’t think it would push me that hard. In the beginning I was beaming with energy, excitement and wonder, watching it help me get things done faster and in ways I’d never imagined. Nine months in, I was totally burned. Mentally, emotionally, and physically. This is that story.

12 to 15 Hours a Day, Every Day

The project that did it was my automated trading system, plus the constant refinement and experimentation on my own AI harness (the rulebook and guardrails I built so the AI works to my standards, which went through three generations, SST1 to SST3, along the way).

Deterministic vs Probabilistic. Same Input, Different Answer.

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Two words. They explain almost everything that feels strange about AI.

Deterministic, and probabilistic. More boring words for you to learn about AI, I know. Stick with me since these are very important and because the gap between the two is the whole game, and almost nobody spells it out before throwing you in.

Deterministic: same input, same output

A deterministic system gives you the same answer every single time. Put 2 + 2 in, get 4 out. Today, tomorrow, on my laptop, on yours. A database query against the same data, a hash function, a humble little script… all deterministic. Same input, same output, every time. No surprises. No mood.

Dancing Is for Girls? Hell No!

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0100

I wrote this on Facebook about eight years ago. I’ve been off social media for about three years now, but I logged in this week to reconnect with a few old friends before deactivating again, and this post turned up in my feed. Brought back some funny memories, and I thought it was worth sharing here on the blog, so here it is word for word, with the original video at the bottom.

Observability, You Can't Fix What You Can't See

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0100

Here is a fast way to set yourself up to fail. Build a whole system with AI, or just vibe code your way to something that runs, and never once make it tell you what it is doing inside. It will look fine. It will click and load and show you numbers. And the day something goes wrong, you will be standing there in the dark with no idea what broke, or where.

3 Types of Tests I Build for Production Systems

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0100

You can build a thing that looks finished, runs without crashing, and is still quietly wrong. That’s the part nobody warns you about when coding with AI. The code compiles, the screen shows numbers, everything feels done, and underneath, a calculation is off by a decimal or a function is sitting there never actually being called. With AI doing the typing, this happens more, not less.

So when I build something real, like my automated swing-trading system, I don’t trust “it ran.” I trust tests (lots and lots of tests). There are three types I use to cover as many edge cases as possible and get to a reliable, robust system that’s ready for production.

Dynamic Workflows and Security Guidance integration into SST3-AI-Harness

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0100

When Opus 4.8 dropped (Claude’s biggest model, the one I lean on most), I did what I always do with a new release. Read the notes. Got a bit fidgety. Two features jumped out at me: Dynamic Workflows and Security Guidance.

I’m not going to explain what they are in full. The official Claude docs do that better than I can, go read them. What I can give you is my own read on why they’re useful, and what happened when I bolted them into my own setup. Because one of them I’d basically been hand-building for six months. And the first time I really used it, it torched half my weekly token allowance in four repos.

Migrating Off Squarespace to Cloudflare

Sat, 30 May 2026 12:00:00 +0100

I had a small site sitting on Squarespace. It was the marketing site for id8u, a dating-platform side project I’ve written about before (the idea that won’t die, here). Squarespace is lovely and easy. It is also £204 a year for the Business plan, plus 20 percent VAT on top, so call it £245 a year. For a brochure site that barely changes.

I wanted it on the same stack this very blog runs on: Hugo and Cloudflare Pages. Hugo is a static site generator, which means it takes a folder of plain text files and turns them into a fast website with no database and no login page (nothing sitting there to hack). Cloudflare Pages then hosts the result for free. The only thing left to pay for is the domain name, which is under £10 a year.

My Baby Steps to Becoming a Professional Trader

Wed, 27 May 2026 12:00:00 +0100

It’s been over 3 years since I started this journey. Two years of intense learning. One year of intense building, which turned everything I’d picked up into an automated trading platform with a simple (not so simple) MVWAP strategy and a workflow that’s almost fully automated. Almost. I kept a human in the loop for the actual trade entry decisions, on purpose. If you want the build side of that story, it’s over here: Building a Production-Grade Trading System with Claude Code.

Born Different. Here's How I Learned to Learn.

Fri, 15 May 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Funny thing first. When I finally got the ADHD diagnosis I went round to my friends, “Hey guys, look, I got ADHD”, and showed them the report. They just looked at me puzzled. “Hoi, we all knew, we thought you knew?”. I was like… er what?! I never even knew what ADHD was until then. lol. Talk about lack of self-awareness (and I’m the one always preaching this). Some friends I have, right? They all thought I knew and never said a word, yet they all knew or thought it anyway. haha. Could’ve saved me £900 for the assessment! But oh well. At least I know now. Not that it changes anything.

Done With Building AI for Machines? I'm Building AI for People.

Tue, 12 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

I had a few interviews lined up. Decent companies, decent AI roles. And then, halfway through the second one, the thing clicked.

I was about to be thrown into building AI infrastructure for things I do not really care about. Like building AI for machines. Cool work, no doubt. Smart people, big budgets, all the toys. But the actual product? Pipelines feeding pipelines feeding more pipelines, with the human bit pushed three floors away from where the AI lived.

I Built My Own Automated Meeting Notes. Three Attempts.

Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:00 +0100

I handwrite notes during every client meeting. The notes are detailed enough to drive the work afterwards. This post is not about replacing them.

I wanted a transcript alongside, as a sanity check against my own notes. So I built my own. Two reasons.

First, I didn’t want another £9-40/month SaaS subscription forever for what’s basically Whisper plus a summariser, both open-source and free. Second, I wanted to test how accurate self-hosted transcription has actually got in 2026. Plenty of marketing copy out there. Not much “I ran a real meeting through this and here’s what came out the other side”.

Entrepreneurship in a Nutshell. 20 Years In, Still Building.

Sun, 10 May 2026 12:00:00 +0100

2005. I was 23, fresh into my first proper job as a Systems Administrator at SunGard Availability Services in London. Earning a real salary for the first time. Three months in, I had the role figured out and my brain was already drifting. The work was fine. The work was dull. I wanted something bigger.

Then a friend pitched me a karaoke bar. Then it became a karaoke restaurant, because a pure karaoke bar only really makes money on room rental and snacks and drinks, and a restaurant catches lunch trade too. That was the logic, anyway.

Privacy Notice

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100

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Sub-processors

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100

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When a sub-processor is added or replaced, affected clients are emailed the change with an effective-date at least 30 days out. Clients may object on reasonable grounds within those 30 days; an unresolved objection means the affected SOW may be terminated with pro-rata refund per SOW §5.

I Reverse-Engineered My Moju Ginger Shot Habit. £1.28 a Bottle.

Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 +0100

I’ve been buying Moju ginger shots for two whole years. One shot a day, every morning, religious about it. Eight bottles every eight weeks. About £50 each time. On autopilot.

(That’s roughly £325 a year. £650 across two years. Yes, I worked it out. I should’ve worked it out sooner.)

Then one morning I’m holding the bottle, looking at the back, and my brain finally caught up. Apple. Ginger. Lemon. Ascorbic acid. That’s it.

10 AI Harnesses. One Job. Who Will Win?

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

AI Managed Harness Services

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0100

I help non-technical domain experts and subject matter experts (SME) adopt AI properly. Not by handing you a tool and saying “off you go”. Not by writing a hand-wavy AI strategy deck either! My strength is people and moving parts: a serial entrepreneur who has run real businesses, a qualified project manager who was PMP certified (PMI, 2023), with donkey years of programme management on projects of scale.

I Built an eBay Harness in 15 Days. Here's What 17 Tools Look Like.

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

The problem I gave myself a window to fix

I run a small eBay reseller business on the side, nothing big as I never intend to scale it. Listing creation. Photos. Item specifics. Condition descriptions. Pricing checks. Inventory monitoring. Repricing when the market shifts. Watching feedback. Watching returns. Watching the active listings panel for the ones that have gone quiet.

It is manual. It is serial. It is error-prone. Multiple live listings. More in the queue. Do the maths.

Reverted code review graphs. Going back to basics

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0100

Cutting to the chase: this morning we ripped code-review-graph MCP (Model Context Protocol) out of our SST3 harness. Same day, I filed the upstream bug report. Same day, I filed the internal issue to replace the whole daemon-MCP path with request-scoped Bash scripts. The rule that pointed at the graph survived all of that. This post is about that line, why it matters more than the tool that was sitting underneath it, and why we are choosing to go back to basics on graph tooling for a while.

14 Years of Zouk. Same Dancers on the Sidelines.

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Bit of a reintroduction first, for anyone who landed here fresh. This is my first dance blog since June 2019. So I’m kinda back…ish!

I’m Hoi. 14 years of Brazilian Zouk under the belt. Tango was my first dance love, well before I discovered Zouk and it completely stole the show. The last 3 years or so I’ve been focused on Hip Hop and Afrobeats (fell in love with both, different energy, similar rules, they work together). And across the last 15 years I’ve dabbled in and out of basically everything you can think of. 1 year of Tango. 9 months of Salsa. 3 months of Bachata. A couple of months of Kizomba. 3 months of West Coast Swing. Plus any random class I could get my hands on just to see what’s out there. If a school offered a taster on something odd I hadn’t tried, I’d rock up.

Shipped Ralph Review Trio, But What Is It?

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0100

There is a moment when you ship a tool and then point the tool at itself.

This afternoon, a few hours after pushing Ralph Review Trio to a public GitHub repo, I installed it into my own Claude Code session and ran it on the branch that contained the ship. Three tiers. Haiku surface. Sonnet logic. Opus deep. Ten and a half minutes, 235,000 tokens, 116 tool uses. All three came back clean. Five non-blocking observations flagged, none of them about the ship itself.

Learning AI Is Hard. Really.

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

I’ve been using AI for about three years now. ChatGPT from the early days. Perplexity when it got properly useful. A tiny bit of Gemini. A little poke at DeepSeek. But predominantly Claude Code via Anthropic for the last good chunk. Not playing with it. Not writing haikus about it. Using it. Every day. Real work, real shipping, real pain.

Here is the uncomfortable bit. The more I use it, the more I realise how little I actually know.

Brands Have Voices. People Do Too.

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

A week ago I published the SST3-AI-Harness reshapeable-knife post and closed it with “watch this space. More posts coming on the specific bits. The voice guard for writing.” This is that post. It is about a marketing trick applied to a person.

Here is what drove it. 3 years of watching AI write, from ChatGPT through to Claude. The pattern does not shift. Mechanical. Generic. Buzzword-heavy. A love for uncommon acronyms everyday readers will not understand. Same tell across every new model. This post is what I did with the observation.

Every Subject Matter Expert (SME) Needs Their Own AI Harness

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

You are a lawyer. A marketer. An HR lead. A financial adviser. A physiotherapist. A teacher. A recruiter. A trader. You have watched AI chew through developer jobs for eighteen months, and you have been quietly asking when it is your turn. Not if AI comes for your work. When, and in what shape.

Here is the shape. The frontier labs build one big model. They discover it is good at lots of things. They slice off the profitable slices and productise them. Developers got Claude Code. Non-devs are getting Claude Cowork. Designers are getting Claude Design. The next slice is yours.

Prompts, Agents, Harnesses. The Fourth Is Where It Gets Good.

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Every twelve-to-eighteen months, AI’s “main thing” changes. ChatGPT landed late 2022. Prompt engineering was the thing. Then agents. Now harnesses. Three eras in three years. I reckon the fourth one is already underway, and it is the one that will actually matter to anyone who has to trust what an AI hands back.

Era 1. Prompt Engineering. 2023

Learn the magic words. That was the promise.

OpenAI and DeepLearning.AI launched the ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers free course in April 2023 (Isa Fulford and Andrew Ng). Anthropic posted a prompt-engineer role paying up to $335K, which Fortune ran on 9 March 2023 as the “hot new job” story. Indeed search queries for “prompt engineer” went from 2 per million to 144 per million in the first four months. Sam Altman, on StrictlyVC in March 2023, said “I don’t think we’ll be doing prompt engineering in five years.” O’Reilly published a whole book on it (Berryman and Ziegler, November 2024).

Scaling Without Quality. Just Multiplying Bugs.

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Every Release Has a Bug Storm After It. AI Just Made the Storms Expensive

Every big release has a bug storm after it.

New version. Ship Monday. Firefight all week. Always…

And it’s not because the team were lazy. The opposite. They scale when they genuinely think they’ve covered the edge cases, the test suite is green, everyone feels it’s good enough to go. They do their due diligence. Then real users turn up, at real scale, and edge cases that nobody could have anticipated at ten users or a hundred users start showing the cracks.

Ultrathink Mode aka Overthink Mode. Why I Keep Turning It Off.

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Every time Claude ships a new model or variant, one of my first jobs is to check the effort setting. Arrow keys until I land in the middle. Used to be middle of three. Now middle of five. Every time.

Claude Code currently gives me five steps on the dial: low, medium, high, xhigh, max. There’s also an auto mode, which I never use (I’d rather not leave the setting to the UI). Across tools the top tiers go by different names. Ultrathink. Max mode. Extended thinking. Whatever the marketing team picked that week. I call them overthink mode. Because that’s what they do.

Why I Spend More Tokens Refining Scope Than Writing Code

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

There was a version of me, about six months back, who thought the smart move was to point an AI agent at a problem and let it rip. Five agents. Ten agents. Fire away. Maximum throughput. What could go wrong.

A lot, as it turns out.

What SST2 taught me

Before SST3-AI-Harness there was SST2. SST2 was a multi-agent setup: one orchestrator, a pool of specialist agents, coordination messages flying between them, and every agent holding a loaded write-access permission. Lots of parallel writers. My own guardrails welded on the side. I thought throughput was the answer.

Why Do We Need an AI Harness?

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

You paste a prompt into ChatGPT. It works. First try. You close the tab feeling smart.

You paste the same prompt tomorrow. Different answer. Completely different. Not slightly rephrased. Sometimes not even in the same direction. Same prompt. Same AI. Not the same result.

Nobody really warns you about this bit on the way in. But this is THE thing. Pretty much everything else flows from it.

SST3-AI-Harness. Why I Built a Hero Suit for AI.

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Once upon a time, I was staring at stock charts 6 to 12 hours a day

Anywhere between 6 and 12 hours depending on how busy the week was. Same patterns. Same indicators. Same exhausting slog of “is this a real bounce or am I about to get slapped in the face by the market?” Constantly trying to figure out what works and what doesn’t, how it works, and why it works. Then figuring out how to test the thing that seemed to work. Then trying to work out whether it was ACTUALLY working or just overfitted nonsense that looked brilliant on paper and would fall apart the moment the stock’s personality shifted. (I didn’t have a backtest system back then, so “on paper” really meant manually reviewing charts by eye. Basically theory. Dangerous theory with no data to back it up.) The eBay side hustle was the thing I’d poke at whenever I had a little extra time. Honestly, mostly procrastination.

Every Book I've Read in 20 Years. All 127 of Them.

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

I thought it would be interesting to get AI to dig through 20 years of Amazon orders, Kindle downloads, and Audible listens to pull together every book I’ve ever read. All of them. The good, the bad, the ones I finished at 3am, and the ones I gave up after two chapters because I’d already got what I needed. Honestly, out of the 127… maybe 10-20% I only read the parts that were relevant. The rest I read inside out, cover to cover.

We Wanted More Properties. Then We Did the Maths.

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

On paper, buy-to-let looks brilliant. You buy a house, someone else pays the mortgage, the value goes up, you remortgage and buy another one. Rinse, repeat. Financial freedom by 45. That’s the pitch, anyway.

The reality in 2026? 93,000 landlords quit last year. 41% of the ones still standing are thinking about selling up. We’re not expanding our portfolio either. Let me walk you through why.

The Tax Change That Broke Everything

This is the one most people outside property don’t know about, and it’s the single biggest reason the maths stopped working.

Do We Actually Need LLM Wiki?

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

My mate Bear sent me a link the other day. “Have you seen this?”

It was some gist about something called LLM Wiki. Went viral apparently. I didn’t even clock who wrote it at first (turns out it was Andrej Karpathy, a fairly big deal in AI). I just skim-read what it was proposing and immediately started having questions. We were two bottles deep at this point (a Burgundy and a Chablis, pre-dinner) so naturally I had a lot of questions. By the time we’d finished dinner and worked through 2 ports each, 2 martinis each, a negroni each, and an old fashioned each… I had even more questions.

iD8u: The Idea That Won't Die

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0100

I’ve had this idea since COVID. March 2021. Sat at a friend’s kitchen table, two of us brainstorming what dating should actually look like if you stripped away all the rubbish.

No swiping. No endless chats that go nowhere. No bots. No catfishing. No “hey” messages at 2am. Just… book an adventure together and meet in person. Cooking class, bouldering, axe throwing, escape rooms, wine tasting. Both people pay equally (sorry leeches, it ends here). You show up, you do something fun together, and if there’s a spark, great. If not, at least you learned how to throw an axe.

Building a Production-Grade Trading System with Claude Code

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

9,437 commits. 1,419 issues. 5 months of tracked code. Half of it was fixing things I broke.

That’s the short version. The long version starts with a hacky Google spreadsheet, goes through 3 years of trading study, and ends with a production-grade autonomous trading system built with Claude Code. The 5 months is just the GitHub-tracked phase. The full journey (including about 9 months of intensive building at 12-15 hours a day, 7 days a week) is longer. Let me explain.

i r back!

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Twenty-two years of writing scattered across WordPress backups, Joomla backups, loose HTML files, and Google Docs sitting in storage while collecting digital dust. Today I built its new home that pulls them all together. Hugo, a custom theme, Cloudflare Pages. The whole thing is managed by Claude Code running my SST3-AI-Harness framework and custom built AI skills, which means the commit history is half mine and half a robot’s. Suits me.

X books that will change your dating life

Sun, 25 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0100

If you have struggled with dating, you may have tried reading “the game”? It’s about a guy called Neil Straus in the 2000s when he stumbled into a world of pick up artists. PUA got short.

A whole bunch of texting guide books which is okay but not date changing because the strategy I use evolved is minimum amount of phone calls and texting. You only use text and phone calls to set dates to meet and not really as a tool to flirt and get to know one another. I actually get bored sitting on a phone call or texting, since I like to spend time doing things I’m interested in than

3 Decisions To Change Your Dating Life, Forever

Sun, 06 Jun 2021 12:00:00 +0100

3 Decisions To Change Your Dating Life, Forever

My name is Hoi and thank you for reading my dating blog on iD8u - I Date You!

I am writing blogs based on my own male perspective and life journey. Women readers are welcome because it may give you insight about how some of us men think (and behave… badly sometimes but mostly good I hope!).

I used to be bad with women until the age of 30 when I made three decisions that changed everything, from dating success to living the life I want.

ReportaDancer.com. Why it was DOOMED to Fail

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:00:00 +0100

A few years ago I created a web tool called ReportaDancer.com. Yes, you’ve guessed it right what it does!

So this video just came out by Jessica Carro of Zoukology!

Things have since gotten quite messy since the @chegadeassedionadanca instagram page was created. A #metoo-type movement has male instructors turning against women and vice versa. It’s also motivated others in the scene to create new anonymous pages targeting certain artists, which can be very dangerous.

Food for Thoughts for Dance Teachers and Organisers

Thu, 28 Nov 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Structured programmes such as Zouk dance camps and boot camps are a new era and becoming widely popular and for many positive reasons. It’s amazing seeing our community heading this direction because of artists and organisers who have invested their time, blood, sweat and yes lots of money to help grow our passion for Brazilian Zouk.

I’ve recently had a very very very interesting but concerning discussion with another fellow dance camp organiser. As a fellow dance camp organiser who has risked and invested heavily, I completely understand the situation.

Zouk Dance Camps and Boot Camps 2020

Thu, 28 Nov 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Brazilian Zouk dance camps and boot camps is a new era and have become an essential learning tool and an asset contributing to the healthy growth of our beloved Brazilian Zouk community. They offer a controlled environment with a smaller number of students, teacher’s attention, progressive learning, learning structure and more; all of which help deliver a more in-depth, higher quality and effective personal dance development.

If you’ve not read my older blog posts comparing the different types of learning environments, check it out!

5 Stages of Learning Social Dance Movements

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0100

Anamé & I recently taught our concept, ‘The 3 Key Aspects of Social Dance’. During our class, we shared our thoughts about the (1) Physical Aspects which talk about how our body & mind learns movement. We’re not going to be talking about (2) Emotional Aspects or (3) Social Aspects in this blog.

As part of the (1) Physical Aspects, I want to share much deeper thoughts about learning social dance and what I think are the 5 stages we go through in learning each movement. Please note each movement you are learning simultaneously may be each be at different learning stages.

What are basic movements and why are they so important?

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0100

What are Zouk basic movements and why are they so important?

When learning social dance, I am very sure that all of us always hear repeatedly from our teachers and other experienced dancers that learning and practicing basics are so important and here is the basics blah d blah, blah blah blah. You need to learn the basics to dance Brazilian Zouk blah d blah…

However, it’s so rare anyone actually explains WHY!?

Falling in Zouk Love Again. My Russian Saga

Wed, 17 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0100

Falling in Zouk Love Again - My Russian Saga

Brazilian Zouk have taken me (Hoi) to so many places in this World. And it continues to reshape who I am through the interaction of people and culture.

I realise my biggest growth is when I travel alone and this time for Moscow, Russia for the Zouk Non-Stop (ZNS) marathon event. It was a new event planned within 3 months and very little publication or marketing done to the rest of the world. There was around 15 international dancers who also decided to make this journey within the 165 Russian dancers of 180. Despite being a foreigner I felt so warmly welcomed and part of this family. The moments shared have found a permanent spot in my heart and will always remember this feeling of falling in love with the dancers of Russia. I feel so peaceful, so grateful and thankful. I am fulfilled.

The Clockworks of a Dance Scene

Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Following on from ‘Poland’s Big Bang Zouk Theory’, I am sure there are many ways to grow a healthy dance scene. but here are some of my thoughts and general thinking based on observations who are the main contributors that make a thriving and healthy dance scene.

Some contributors may play several roles, some may choose to play one role. Nonetheless, they each are important and can’t be disregarded as a lesser importance when it comes to growing a healthy and thriving dance scene.

Poland's Big Bang Zouk Theory

Sun, 12 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000

I am by no means an expert in growing a Zouk scene, however, one of my biggest all-time inspirations would be the city Warsaw, Poland. From there, it emanated to the rest of Poland with many upcoming and thriving Zouk scenes.

Warsaw had become the Zouk capital of Europe with many frequent weekly classes, massive international events, boot camps and weekly parties happening!

Having had the chance to spend a whole week stuck on a yacht with Michal Wysoczanski who played a key part in the Polish group’s development of the Zouk scene in Warsaw.

The Key To Effective Zouk Practice

Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0100

What seems to be stopping people from practicing is “boredom”. They’ve tried practicing but gave up quickly because they got “bored”.

This is true and I would also give up if I had no idea whether it will improve my dancing or not and would prefer doing something more productive with my time.

The reason for “boredom” is because you’ve been doing it all WRONG! (hoi to do: use the quote format for this paragraph on website)

What To Practice in Zouk Solo

Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:00:00 +0100

Now that you understand the 7 Great Reasons To Practice Zouk Solo, let’s look at what you should practice in Zouk solo.

Have a look at the illustration below, ‘Solo Practice Pyramid for Zouk’. This will give you a visual understanding of how much time I usually spend on different areas of my body during a solo practice session.

I build my dance from the bottom up, but I’ve seen many dancers and teachers who would build from the top down or just random. I don’t understand the reason for this but always open to listen and know about the logic behind?

7 Great Reasons To Practice Zouk Solo

Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0100

Though leading and following are essential skills, it is often over-emphasised as the only skills you need to develop to be a great social dancer.

I’m a great believer that social dancing should be danced together, hence why the skills to lead and dance at the same time are essential to be a great lead. The same reason why a great follow can dance and follow at the same time without disrupting the flow.

Understanding Dance Growth, Plateaux and Bad Habits

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0100

Understanding Dance Growth, Plateaux and Bad Habits - Part 1

Introduction

One area that I feel has very little attention in Zouk teaching is the setting & managing of progression expectations versus time frame in learning Zouk (especially if you’ve never danced before).

I hope when you’ve finished reading this blog, it will not discourage you from taking up (or giving up Zouk if you have already started) but instead, provide you with an understanding that learning to dance is a very long and continuous journey that requires much time, effort, dedication and study.

A Guide to Different Types of Zouk Classes

Sat, 26 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0100

A Guide to Different Types of Zouk Classes - Part 1

Introduction

Dancing has been one of my greatest investments. With the correct nurturing and guidance, it will reward you for all the time, effort and money you’ve invested into achieving your desired results.

Over the years I’ve tried many different types of Zouk classes and courses, both locally in the UK and internationally.

In this series of blogs, I’ll share my thoughts on various learning methods, comparing the different class types and who they may be most suitable for.

Will UK Dance Connexion change Zouk in London

Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0100

Many of you may know that I’m not the happiest chap when it comes to dancing Zouk in London.

As an experienced international Zouk dancer, I have an extremely one sided feeling about it, but at the same time, I can see the huge potential in London.

If you’ve not read my blog post that was published last year and wish to know my thoughts then you can read it here ‘How To Avoid Becoming A Terrible Zouk Dancer In London’. – Be warned, you may not like what you read and this is actually an edited “censored” version compared my original blog post. My feelings haven’t changed much since the time of writing, but I’m starting to see some hope… and here are some of the reasons why…

Become The Dance Listener By Using The 3 Dance Approach

Mon, 29 May 2017 12:00:00 +0100

Do you want to know the secret between the average Zouk dancer and an exceptional Zouk dancer?

There are many other articles out there that talks about becoming a Light Follow or how to be a Strong Lead. Each would touch on the topic about adapting and listening to the partner. This blog builds on top of these.

For the Ladies who wish to become a Light Follow, there’s a well written blog by Stefanie at ThePerfectFollow.com called How To Be A Light Follow (original URL no longer available). She’s also written number of blogs on why you would want to become a “Pure Follow”. I would suggest spending some time browsing her blogsite. Very useful.

How To Avoid Becoming A Terrible Zouk Dancer In London (Censored)

Wed, 12 Oct 2016 12:00:00 +0100

16 Skills That Makes The Ultimate Adventurer

Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:00:00 +0000

My childhood heroes were certainly Indiana Jones and Jackie Chan. How many times have you seen their movies and thought I want to do that!

If asked, what would make you into your real life Ultimate Adventurer? I know my answer…

Here I give you 16 Skills that would make the Ultimate Adventurer

1 Scuba Diving - Being able to explore underwater takes your experience to a whole new world. The Ocean itself covers 70% of our planet. There is so much to discover because we humans have only explored a mere five percent leaving a huge mystery yet to be learned.

The Sun Had Set For 2014. Here Rises The Sun For 2015.

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:00:00 +0000

The Sun Had Set For 2014. Here Rises The Sun For 2015

As 2014 reaches it’s end and 2015 coming to life, I stood there in the middle of Centenary Square Birmingham waiting for the fireworks and reminiscing all the adventures I had within this year.

The crowd of thousands chatted away when the fireworks went off. I turned around to my cousin Sang and asked him when the countdown will begin. He responded, “It’s gone! The New Year had arrived… There were no DJ’s in the square doing the countdown!”

For The Love Of Wine

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:00:00 +0000

For The Love Of Wine

Do you love the taste of Wine but really have no clue about it?
You drink Wine because it makes you appear more sophisticated?
All your friends have matured and drinking Wine but you?
So you went on a date and instead of ordering your usual pint of Beer, you select the Wine menu hoping to leave a good impression?
You love Food and want to know how Wine Pairing can enhance the experience?

This is my first blog of many touching on the subject “Wine”. I will share with you my journey and how you too can discover the same joy & curiosity when I popped open a bottle of Chianti Classico 2008 Reserva.

The Biggest Zouk Family Gathering in Europe - DutchZouk! International Congress 2014

Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:00:00 +0000

With over 100+ Artists (Dance Teachers, DJ’s & Performers) and 1000+ Attendees, DutchZouk! really was the biggest Zouk Congress in Europe! We had Zoukers stretching as far as Australia and Canada.

It was an exhausting 7 days of dancing with most of the action taken place during the weekend. Having attended 5 out of the 7 days, I wished I had stayed from the very first day until the very end!

5 Common Mistakes Dance Teachers Make At Congresses

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:00:00 +0000

With over a hundred students in one room, Dance Teachers are challenged in their teaching skills. Most Dance Teachers are extremely talented at Dancing that made them well known for their art and mastery within this field. But when it balls down to teaching, they can fail drastically!

Being an effective Teacher will draw in Students and gain even more popularity. Failing so, can put students off forever attending another one of their classes, no matter how talented of a Dancer they may be.

Scenic Lovers must Visit Grindelwald, Switzerland

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:00:00 +0000

Scenic Lovers must Visit Grindelwald, Switzerland

If I had to describe this town in one sentence it probably be, “Grindelwald, the most picturesque place I have ever set my eyes upon.”

The Place to Be

Grindelwald is the sister city of a small village in Japan called Azumi which later merged with Matsumoto City. Everywhere you look, the signs were all written in English, Japanese and Chinese.

We visited between end of May through the first week of June and even though it hadn’t quite reached the peak season yet, it still felt very touristy with so many orientals and their massive SLR, posing and taking snapshots.

A Beginners Guide to Zouk Classes in UK

Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:00:00 +0100

A Beginners Guide to Zouk Classes in UK

Here is a list of Zouk classes and socials across the United Kingdom. I will try my best to keep the list up-to-date, but it is subject to change and always best to contact the teachers/group directly to confirm.

Find Brazilian Zouk dance schools around the World whether you are visiting or looking for a local school, please visit zoukbase.com (no longer available) !!! It has the most up-to-date info

If you are a teacher/group and would like to be added to this list, please contact me via facebook or the contact form with your class details in the same format as shown below.

7 Dance Tips from Zero to Hero

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 12:00:00 +0100

7 Dance Tips from Zero to Hero

If you are impatient like me and always like the fasts track but afraid of shortcuts that can cause bad habits. Here are a few suggestions that may help speed up your learning process and get you onto the dance floor with confidence. However, like all skills, you still need to give it time before your muscle memory kicks in, so it is still true that it is down to lots of practice.

What is Zouk?

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 11:00:00 +0100

I have been asked this question a million times. Not once have I ever gotten bored explaining it to others. In fact, I still get very excited telling others what it is and what makes Zouk so awesome!

Zouk is a Brazilian dance and still very young compare to many other social dances. It was popularised in the 1980, and has grown popularity all over the world, mainly in UK, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Birmingham Bouldering Centre

Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:00:00 +0100

Ever since started climbing about 4 months ago, I haven’t stopped. This is a sport that I would like to see more of my friends doing. It is fun, challenging and has a great sense of accomplishment when you complete a route. This kind of activity is very sociable as we can chill and chat with friends while having a good work out.

Where the

Situated under a subway near Snowhill station, we found this place while on the way to my first Capeiro Dance class. It is much smaller than Boulder Central where I usually climb, but this place has it’s own appeal.

Hen & Chickens Pub Grill

Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:00:00 +0100

Hen & Chickens Pub Grill

I have heard of this place from TripAdvisor and the raving reviews it had. After a hard bouldering session, me and Xin decided to go for some curry. Since we were nearby, I suggested we try this place and cross it off my list.

The exterior would somewhat trouble you, giving off a very ghetto and chavvy feel to it. You can probably seat about 20 people inside place. The interior were old with mismatched furnitures. However, we wasn’t there to admire it’s beauty. So lets eat!

ZoukTime! 5th Brazilian Dance Congress

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:00:00 +0100

ZoukTime! 5th Brazilian Dance Congress

Published: 12 September 2014 | Author: Hoi Ung | Posted from: Brno, Czech Republic

Hundreds of dancers. Professionals, amateurs and beginners from all over the world gathered in one place! Classes during the day time, performances and social dancing throughout the night until the morning.

ZoukTime! has had the reputation for being one of the best in Europe. This being their 5th year running certainly didn’t disappoint! With world class teachers and DJ’s, ZoukTime! decided to change their class schedules extending from 6 x 1 hour classes to 4 x 1.5 hour classes each day. Personally, I’ve felt it worked well. The teachers had that little extra time needed to go into details for what’s being taught and the students aren’t overloaded with as many combinations or techniques to remember. Quality over quantity for effective learning.

Turtle Bay Restaurant

Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:00:00 +0100

Turtle Bay Restaurant

I have been longing to visit this restaurant for some time after hearing it and seeing many friends check-in on their facebooks. I have always loved caribbean food, especially oxtail and ackee & salt fish being my favorite! Lamb pattie too! mMmm…

When entering the restaurant, it was bigger than expected. They were playing chillaxing Reggae type music and the staff appeared to be friendly. We were promptly seated by the receptionist as it wasn’t too busy at 5pm.

Woodsmoke - Woodlanders Bushcraft Course

Sun, 10 Aug 2014 12:00:00 +0100

Woodsmoke - Woodlanders Bushcraft Course

What is Bushcraft?

The first time I’ve ever heard of Bushcraft was a few years back when googling about living in the wild. Some people may have misconception of what Bushcraft really is about, as it was easily confused with the stuff that Bear Grylls does on TV. I am sure we all got a little excited when watching Bear grylls eating bugs, sleeping rough and teaching techniques on how to stay hydrated and fed. To make a clear distinction, Bear Grylls’ does what is called survival training. How to get out of a situation if you are exposed to the natural environment and no communication to civilization. To be able to survive and get yourself back to civilisation as quick as possible.

AI Adoption Training

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Done-with-you, not done-for-you, and definitely not a slide deck. I train your team to use AI properly, on your real work, not toy examples. I focus mainly on Claude Code (my primary tool, the one I bet my consultancy on), and I can also teach AI in general terms at a high level, so your people learn how to get the most out of most models, not just one.

Asians & Gingers in Tech

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, my name is Hoi aka Hoiboy!

After 32+ years of extensive research* I’ve concluded that East/South-East Asians and Gingers naturally end up becoming friends.

*Research = my life.

To formalise this groundbreaking discovery, I’ve created a home dedicated to bringing East/South-East Asians and Gingers together.

Welcome to Asians & Gingers in Tech!

Networking? Friendship? World domination? We’ll see.

Pricing & Billing

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

One pricing and billing page for all four services. The detailed numbers live here so each service page can stay about the work, not the invoice. Every service runs on the same engine: a free discovery call, then a paid scoping step, then delivery priced off that scoping. We do not know the size of a job until we understand it, and the discovery call plus the scoping step is exactly where that happens. Each table below states the price of every step, so you always see the number before the work it buys.

Thanks for your story

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks, your story is in.

I read every submission myself, so give me a little time. If it is a good fit for the feature series, I will be in touch by email.

Join and follow us

Come be part of it. This is where everything happens between features.

Real-life meetups (London): meetup.com/london-asians-gingers-in-tech
LinkedIn group: linkedin.com/groups/26310001
Facebook page: facebook.com/asians.gingers.in.tech
Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/london.asians.gingers.in.tech
Instagram: @asians_gingers_in_tech
TikTok: @asians_gingers_in_tech
X: @AsiansGingersIT

While you’re here

Have a look around the site and the blog. Since you are into tech, you might like:

Work with Hoi

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the no-nonsense sales page. This is a place to work out whether we can actually work together: where I add value to your business by automating the work that drains your team, training your people to use AI properly, or building AI harnesses for them. Most salespeople oversell and under-deliver, because they are never the ones who have to deliver what they sold. I will not tarnish them all over a few bad eggs, though: I have met a few genuinely good salespeople and am still friends with them, and it is a cut-throat, live-or-die kind of role, so I get it, but that doesn’t mean I agree with certain methods. I have sat in every role in a business, including sales. So I will not oversell you, and I only offer what I can deliver as a Lead AI Engineer.