Jakob Serlier - AI & Systems Engineer

Hi, I'm Jakob Serlier - an AI and systems engineer working at Microsoft in Abu Dhabi, mostly working on innovation engineering practices and applied AI systems. I write about pragmatic AI, engineering culture, and tooling.

Recent Writing

2025-10-14 - Built a minimalist team tracker

2025-10-12 - Building personalized focus apps in minutes.

2025-10-12 - Created Focus!

2025-07-28 - Tracking AI Assistant Contributions Using Git Trailers and Git Hooks

2025-07-07 - Dynamically Routing Traces to Customer-Specific App Insights

2025-02-07 - Creation of KoppelWerk

2024-05-06 - Learnings from ingesting millions of technical pages for RAG on Azure.

2024-04-30 - Showcase: Azure AI Hybrid Search unexpected results gotcha

2024-01-15 - Encoding hidden prompt in LLMs as potential attack vector.

2023-11-21 - What does a statement like “AI will take my job” look like in practice?

2023-11-03 - GPT-4 CLI with persistence in 10 lines of code.

2023-11-02 - Voice record daily thoughts, redact with GPT4, and save to Apple Notes using Shortcuts.

2023-10-26 - Evaluating RAG/LLMs in highly technical settings using synthetic QA generation

2023-10-19 - On automating unit tests with LLMs.

2023-09-20 - 78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code.

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Projects

Minimalist Team Tracker

Track daily activities with your team - get motivated, stay accountable

Focus

Focus on one task, task queue, minimal distraction, count up or down

OpenAI Functools

Simplified Generation of OpenAI Functions JSON Metadata (Public Archive)

Wildlife Classification

Research: Lightweight wildlife classification on the edge

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