Opus in fieri · an atelier
Spiresen is Louay Belkhamsa's atelier: a corner of the web where ideas on AI, engineering and strategy are worked out, drawn up and built.
In plain terms
Louay Belkhamsa's projects and articles on AI, engineering and strategy, in one place. Each project lives at its own *.spiresen.com address.
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A corner for ideas, worked by hand.
Some ideas become articles, drawn as plates rather than poured as plain text. Some become projects you can open. Each is revised in the open, state by state.
Ideas are argued in articles drawn as plates, and built into projects, each at its own *.spiresen.com address.
Study guide and practice exam for the AWS Certified AI Business Strategist exam.
A study guide and practice questions for an AWS exam on AI in business.
A portfolio web app that doubles as a case study in planning AI-assisted development, so it costs less before a line of code runs.
A web app, and a record of how to plan AI-assisted projects so they cost less.
Notes on what hasty AI adoption costs, and why the lasting gains come slowly.
A look at what rushed AI adoption costs, and why real gains take time.
Rooted in Anatolia. More to come.
Not started yet. A project rooted in Anatolia, details to come.
Articles drawn as plates, not poured as plain text.
Realist positions on AI strategy and change: critical where needed, credit where it is due, built on independent sources. Each article is revised in the open, state by state.
Essays on how organisations adopt AI, laid out visually.
Each one names its sources and shows how many times it has been revised. Figures and plates carry the argument where plain text would not.
AI sharpens the subject. It does not do the work in its stead.
Every use of AI is disclosed, and so is everything made by hand. The thinking and the architecture are always the author's.
AI is a tool for sharpening ideas, not for writing them.
Every use of AI is disclosed, and so is every part made by hand. The author does the thinking and the design.
A problem is worked through and through, from planning to execution and maintenance, and past the code to the structures and workflows around it. Solutions start from how people behave, not from how technology should be used.
Engineering covers planning, building and maintaining, and also how work is organised: the structures, workflows and decisions around the software.
On this site. Claude Code helped build it: the code, the drawings, and first drafts of the words from the author's notes. The ideas and decisions are the author's.
Lagom means just enough. Like a runic letter, every stroke goes straight to the point, with a break wherever the solution needs one. Nothing more, nothing less.
Build only what the problem needs, and make it last.
Kaizen is small steps. Strokes add up to an alphabet, and the alphabet to a complex, costly task, one increment at a time. It is why maintenance is part of the plan.
Improve in small steps, and keep maintaining.
The widest of the three. In Arabic the marks above and below the letters carry the sound and often the meaning, so the detail is where the value shows. The scholars worked across many fronts.
Work across many fields. The details carry the value.
Tech advisory consultant / engineer
Founder of Spiresen, writing on AI strategy and change.Founder of Spiresen. Cloud and GenAI engineer, advising on AI strategy.
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Engineers who share the same values of quality and skill. Their works can be featured in Spiresen with their agreement.Engineers who share the same values of quality and skill. Their works can be featured in Spiresen with their agreement.
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