Alan Scott Encinas

AI Engineer & Systems Architect. I turn complex ideas into working systems: cognitive AI, autonomous systems, robotics, defense.

Tustin, CA Joined on Mar 20, 2026 https://alanscottencinas.com/

Education

UCI

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he/him

Work

AI Engineer & Systems Architect. I turn complex ideas into working systems.

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 21

How I Killed Sixteen Ideas Without Wasting a Submission

#rogiiwellboregeologyprediction #machinelearning #modelvalidation #kaggle

9 min read

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Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 21

The Validation Score That Lied to Me for a Month

#rogiiwellboregeologyprediction #machinelearning #modelvalidation #kaggle

10 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 20

Sustainable Cognition

#carbonawarecomputing #greenai #modelcollapse #neuromorphiccomputing

24 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 20

Why Your Dashboard Is Lying to You (And What Actually Works)

#operationalintelligence #supplychain #aistrategy #datascience

10 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 18

Cognitive AI, the Energy Obstacle, and the Artemis Solution: Why the Future of Intelligence Will Be Decided by Power, Not Parameters

#greenai #inmemorycomputing #neuromorphiccomputing #spikingneuralnetworks

5 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 16

Cognitive AI: The Next Leap from Algorithms to Awareness

#edgeai #machinelearning #neuromorphiccomputing

4 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 14

What Is a Cognitive System? Software That Pursues Goals, Not Instructions

#aiarchitecture #agenticai #aiorchestration #enterpriseaiadoption

10 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 14

Companies Replaced Their Workers With AI. Now They're Hiring Them Back to Babysit It.

#aiagents #enterpriseaiadoption #humanaicollaboration #futureofwork

8 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 13

The bug was in my beliefs, not my code

#machinelearning #ai #agents #python

4 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 12

Robot skin can feel pain now. The hard part is teaching it to think.

#neuromorphiccomputing #edgeai #spikingneuralnetworks #simulationtraining

6 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 12

The Token Tax: Why Bad AI Architecture Is Becoming Enterprise Debt

#cognitiveorchestration #aiarchitecture #enterpriseaiadoption #datascience

6 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 11

What Is Cognitive Orchestration? Why AI Systems Can't Be Built Like Traditional Software

#aiarchitecture #aiorchestration #agenticai #enterpriseaiadoption

12 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 11

The Infrastructure Fallacy: Why Most Sales Problems Are Actually Strategy Problems

#businessstrategy #sales #distribution #datascience

6 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 10

Building LunarSite: the director's commentary

#machinelearning #computervision #simulationtraining #lunarexploration

14 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 10

I made my agent more capable and it got worse

#machinelearning #ai #agents #python

4 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 9

The Paintbrush Paradox: Why the Monolithic Era of AI Is Crumbling

#aiarchitecture #contextwindows #aiorchestration #agenticai

6 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 8

I looked unbeatable in practice and lost the real fight

#machinelearning #ai #agents #python

4 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 8

I spent a few months teaching a laptop to read the Moon

#machinelearning #computervision #simulationtraining #lunarexploration

7 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 6

I'm trying to teach a machine to play a game it has never seen

#machinelearning #ai #agents #python

5 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 6

I Built an AI Sales Team for Under $1 a Day. It Closed $29,201 and Beat Salesforce and HubSpot's AI

#aiagents #multiagentsystems #aiassisteddevelopment #humanaicollaboration

14 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 5

The Scale Wall: Why AI Gurus Are Building Toys While the World Needs Architects

#enterpriseaiadoption #aiagents #multiagentsystems #datascience

7 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 4

I built an AI agent that reads my CRM emails and scores leads for $0.01 each

#aiagents #aiassisteddevelopment #enterpriseaiadoption

6 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 3

I was sure, and I was wrong

#machinelearning #computervision #kaggle #python

3 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 2

I went hunting in light the eye can't see, and the models were the easy part

#machinelearning #computervision #kaggle

7 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 2

I Built an App in Four Days and Sold It in One

#aiassisteddevelopment #humanaicollaboration

4 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jul 1

The win that was a coin flip

#machinelearning #computervision #kaggle #python

3 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jun 30

Transfer Learning for Medical Diagnosis | Case Study

#computervision #deeplearning #machinelearning

14 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jun 29

My own test set lied to me

#machinelearning #computervision #kaggle #python

3 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jun 28

Credit Card Fraud Detection with ML | Case Study

#deeplearning #machinelearning

17 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jun 27

My submission was rejected before it ever scored

#machinelearning #computervision #kaggle #python

3 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jun 26

My 21 AI Agents Aren't Allowed to Talk to Each Other. That's Why It Works.

#aiagents #multiagentsystems #aiassisteddevelopment #humanaicollaboration

7 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jun 25

The leaderboard you can't score against

#machinelearning #computervision #kaggle #python

3 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jun 24

LunarSite: An end-to-end ML pipeline for lunar south pole landing site selection

#computervision #lunarexploration #machinelearning #spaceexploration

16 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jun 23

I entered a competition to track objects in light you can't see

#machinelearning #computervision #kaggle #python

4 min read

Alan Scott Encinas

Jun 21

The Unknwn Player

#machinelearning #ai #career #kaggle

6 min read

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