AI Certification Copilot: giving certification study a direction
A personal study need became a connected flow for comparing certification paths, diagnosing gaps, and returning to meaningful review.
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I'm Kevin.
I explore AI and build things with it.
I have built a study tool and a brand website, and I am prototyping a Chinese voice assistant on a NUC. Here I share how I define a problem, build a first version, and improve it through use.
AI Product Management / Technical Product Management
Selected projects
What I've been working on
From a study tool to a brand website and a voice assistant, these projects began with problems I or people around me encountered.
Chuanshanshi: a clear home for ceramic work
An eight-language official website connects ceramic work, its maker, courses, and contact details in a consistent visitor experience.
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Jarvis: turn speech into text on a NUC, then let a model think
The idea is already there, but I still have to type it out. I am exploring local speech recognition as an easier input, followed by a local or cloud model suited to the task.
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Turning an AI tool takeaway into something worth sharing.
An exploration of social content and AI tooling with visible progress, revision history, and human approval at two stages.
Explore this projectNUC AI Lab
As cloud AI use grows,
what can a NUC take on?
I want to build local applications on a compact desktop NUC: keep suitable work on the device, then use the cloud when more capability is needed. Experiments will explore the tradeoffs in quality, token usage, latency, and overall cost.
Explore how local and cloud can share the workLocal
Which repeatable, bounded tasks can a NUC complete on its own?
Cloud
Which difficult tasks are still worth sending to a cloud model?
Hybrid
Can local processing reduce what needs to be sent to the cloud?
Comparison
The same task and quality threshold, then usage and cost.
Writing and notes
Some thoughts need a little more room.
A new tool, a method I've tried, or a question I can't quite answer. This is where I work through them.
Practical notes
AI wrote the first draft. What's still up to me?
Are the facts right? Does it sound like me? A few things to check before publishing, and what to do when the workflow goes wrong.
Working draft
When AI only needs to choose: exploring Jev and local Laya
Some tasks only need a next step. From Jev and a friend’s local Laya Snake project to model routing and trading research, I want to explore where decision models fit. These are hypotheses and a test plan.
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Make video assembly repeatable, and put decisions first
How I review scripts and storyboards before building a repeatable assembly flow with fixed inputs, a timeline, and a short acceptance sample.
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Leave a return path for every file you move
How I separate file cleanup into read-only inventory, a proposed path map, and small moves so classification involves less guessing.
About Kevin
Curious about tools.
Interested in the people using them.
I'm Kevin, and I share AI tools and workflows on ai.work.smarter. When I build something, I want to know how it feels to use. When I try a tool myself, I keep track of the rough edges.
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