VOL. III · 2026Šimonprague + london · est. 2012
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Everything I do,
alphabetized.

Hi, I'm Šimon Podhajský — Principal AI Engineer at Curebase, lapsed neuroscientist, and a sometime AI Consultant.

Below is the index. Hover any entry; some have footnotes.

Pronunciation lab
Šimon Podhajský
Fig. 1The author, mid-coffee. (Photo: Veronika Roller, 2025.)
AAI engineeringsee also: evals, RAG, MLOps
My day job. Teams of 1–10, prototype to production.consult →
BBooks, currently reading/now
The Faith of Beasts (James SA Corey). Causes some hankering for academia.
CCzechitasczechitas.cz
I teach there. Help more Czech women ship with data & AI.
DDebatedebatovani.cz
Board member of Asociace debatních klubů. Old habit, productively.
EEvalsevals.cz
My specialty. I run the meetup. Come along.rsvp →
LLinkedInin/simonpodhajsky
My professional network. Reeks of occasional thought leadership.
LLM consultingsee: AI engineering
For shipping the bit between demo and production.hire ↗
Locale, pluralsee: Prague, London
Tube-and-train weeks in London; tram weeks in Prague. Same enthusiasm, different rain.
MMusicals, crier atsee: weakness
A reliable trigger. Plan accordingly.
NNeurosciencelapsed, 2018
Yale CogSci & Neuroecon → Data → AI. Useful priors, no regrets.
PPodcastsData Talk + AI ta Krajta
I interview on one, argue on the other, guested once. Czech; practitioners only.
SScrabblesee: vendetta
Lost twice this month, avenged once.
Speaking, available for/speaking
Talks shipped, calibrated to your audience.invite →
ŠŠ (the letter)pronunciation
It's SH, like in shoe. Worth 4 points.
TTwin (model)§ ask the twin
Prompted Haiku, retrieving over site notes. Gemma fine-tune in development.
VVibe-coding, results ofsee: coding
A hobby grown wild.
WWords, inventor ofself-attributed
Anti-prescriptivist by temperament. Forgivable.
Writing#blogger
Sometimes, things don't fit in a LinkedIn post.
YYogasee also: humility
Persisting despite priors. No one is impressed.
Yalesee also: humility, lack of
My reason for disliking Rory Gilmore: we're far too alike.
§ T · 01

The twin will take questions.

Currently a prompted Claude Haiku — given my persona, with BM25 retrieval over my notes corpus. Will hallucinate occasionally, but in my voice. A bespoke Gemma 4 fine-tune is the eventual occupant of this slot — quietly in development. When it sounds enough like me to ship, it'll take over here.

Talk to my twinhaiku · prompted, with retrieval over site notes