I am a software engineer based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. I have been working in Software Engineering since 2008, and as a Team Lead since 2020. My current role is at Flagstone, a cash deposit platform. Before moving into Software Engineering, I was a Secondary School (High School) teacher, and before that I was a scientist in the Steel Industry. I hold a degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Imperial College London.

These days I am a recovering Front End Engineer moving into the AI Engineering space. This site is where I document my AI side quests, the experiments, the dead-ends and what I learned along the way.

For the curious, here is my github profile: helenlslone.

Recent Posts

Qwen vs Claude

I am incredibly fortunate to have access to Claude code, a generous token budget and well scaffolded harnessing and skills in my day job. It had occurred to ...

Planning with QWEN code

After fiddling around with Qwen and Aider yesterday, I decided to take a fresh approach and use QWEN code. This was a lot more straightforward than I had exp...

@hedgehogcafecambs automation begins

@hedgehogcafecambs is my hobby instagram account, where I post footage of wild hedgehogs in my garden. I have several Ring cameras that I use to record their...