Custom AI Models

Yeriko Vargas

AI Engineer · AI Systems Architect · Detroit, MI

Workbench

Not just AI. I live on the keyboard.

Before the model there is the machine. I work across Apple, Microsoft and Google every day, I keep the Terminal open, and I know where the shortcuts are. This is the bench everything else on this site is built on.

01Apple · macOS

my main machine, tuned from the Terminal

02Microsoft

Word · PowerPoint · Excel

03Google

Workspace · Cloud console (GCP) · Search Console

04Terminal

bash · zsh · conda · venv · git

Data, in every shape

I open whatever the client hands me.

.csv.xlsx.pkl.json.yml.md.docx.pptx

Spreadsheets for people, pickles for Python, plain text for everything that has to last.

From my Terminal

A clean desktop is one line away.

zsh · hide the desktop icons
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false
killall Finder
zsh · bring them back
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop true
killall Finder

The keys I reach for

Hands stay on the keyboard.

macOS

  • ⌘ Spaceopen anything
  • ⌘ ⇧ .show hidden files
  • ⌘ ⇧ 4screenshot an area
  • ⌘ ⌥ Escforce quit
  • ⌘ `next window, same app
  • ⌃ ⌘ Qlock the screen

Terminal

  • ⌃ Rsearch my history
  • ⌃ A · ⌃ Estart · end of line
  • ⌃ Cstop it
  • ⌃ Lclean screen
  • !!run the last one again
  • cd -back where I was

Excel

  • ⌘ ↓ →jump to the edge of the data
  • ⌘ ⇧ ↓select to the end
  • ⌘ Tmake it a table
  • ⌘ ;today's date
  • ⌘ Dfill down
  • F4lock a reference