Welcome!

Hello and welcome to my blog. I'm Bristena, a privacy-focused ML engineer at Bitfount with a PhD from UCL.

What I'll Write About

This blog is where I'll share my thoughts and experiments on using AI to become a better developer:

• Agentic LLM setups: How I configure and use AI coding assistants in my daily work
• Prompting strategies: What works, what doesn't, and why context matters
• Workflow automation: Using LLMs to handle the boring parts of development
• Tool comparisons: Honest takes on different AI dev tools
• Lessons learned: Mistakes I've made and how AI helped (or didn't)

Why This Topic?

After spending years building privacy-preserving ML systems, I've become obsessed with how LLMs can augment my development workflow. Not as a replacement for thinking, but as a force multiplier for getting things done.

I'll share the setups that actually work for me—no hype, just practical approaches.

Stay tuned!