Chris Boyd: AI Engineering
I build production AI systems, agentic workflows, and automation platforms for work where failure is expensive. My focus is the hard part of applied AI: architecture, permissions, guardrails, observability, and the engineering required to make autonomous software reliable.
I lead frontend platform engineering at FIS in Jacksonville, and before that spent ten years running Apptitude — two decades shipping production software across mobile, enterprise, and AI systems. I write about the gap between impressive demos and systems that survive real users, real data, and real consequences.
Recent Posts
Conversations with a House
A 1912 house has problems modern tech wasn't built for. So I gave it a brain, a memory, and a voice.
The Rise of the Product Engineer
The job title is catching up to work people have already been doing for years: engineers who don't wait for a spec, because they're close enough to the customer to write one. Every fast moving product team has had one of these people. They sit in the sales call. They read the sup
Fable 5 Prompt Guide
Now that Fable 5 is finally available to the public, the first thing worth saying is the least intuitive: most of the prompt you already have is working against you. If you are migrating from Opus 4.8 or an earlier model, your prompts are probably tuned in the wrong direction. Th