a bed of nails
a poem about suffering
I build AI systems for clients across industries, and write about when they break.
Amey builds AI for Dataiku clients across pharma, retail, finance, insurance, and energy. He hosts SE Radio, lives in Houston with a cat named Crow, lifts heavy, and makes music when it's quiet.


Minimal pomodoro timer for deep work โ 25-minute focus blocks, short breaks, no accounts, no tracking, nothing to configure. Lives at heyamey.com/focus.
MCP server exposing petroleum data formats to LLM hosts like Claude; on PyPI as petroleum-mcp and listed on the MCP.so community directory. Ships LAS well logs (DLIS, SEG-Y, and pump cards on the roadmap) with tools for log QC, per-curve statistics, well comparison, and unit conversion. Local-first: strict path allowlist, zero outbound calls, no telemetry. Full eval suite and CI. MIT.
James Baldwin
Liu Cixin
David Szalay
Things I'm into right now.