Frederick Lowe
Looking for Frederick Lowe?
Congratulations! You've found him (maybe).
Turns out, there are several notable Frederick Lowes.
Enough that it would be presumptuous for either of us to assume I am your Frederick Lowe. In honor of their achievements, let's take a moment to pay homage to the other Frederick Lowes you might be seeking, but have not found, in this section I like to call...
Who Am I (Not)?
Frederick Loewe, American Composer
That Frederick Lowe (actually, Frederick Loewe) is a renowned Broadway writer and American Theater Hall of Fame Inductee. He is more famous and less alive than I am.
Dr. Frederick Lowe, Loyola University Professor
That Frederick Lowe is a Loyola professor with multiple advanced degrees. He looks better in a suit and has better fraternal memberships than I do.
Frederick Lowe, Editor Northstar News and Analysis
That Frederick Lowe is a veteran investigative journalist and two-time Pulitzer nominee. He writes better than I do, and his smile makes mine look like a frown.
Frederick Lowe, Olympic Weightlifter
That Frederick (a.k.a. Fred) Lowe is an Olympian and inductee to multiple Halls of Fame. He holds more Olympic weightlifting records than you can shake a 20 kilo stick at.
Who Am I?
I am Frederick Lowe: Senior Systems Architect and Word Salad Emitter.
Latest Blog Posts
(A)I Know What You Did Last Summer
In 2025, I built a feature-complete agentic platform to automate RFP handling in a scaled ad-tech company. It was the hardest and most rewarding project of my career so far.
Structuring AI Output For Production Systems
Looking for portable, programmatically reliable generation and extraction? Skip the vendor-lock in, and start using JSON Metaprompting.
Prompt Chaining For Incremental Improvement of AI Outputs
Trying to improve AI output without modifying proven base prompts? Prompt Chaining might just be your new best friend.
No, You Don't Need Better SEO Keywords
Website performance, accessibility, and technical best practices matter more for search rankings than keyword optimization because search engines prioritize user experience over content marketing tactics.
Projects
I've spent a lot of time working under restrictive non-disclosure agreements. I like to keep my relationships intact, so to showcase my skills, knowledge, and experience I present you with...
This Website
Ride along as I explore a Human + AI collaboration worthy of the kind of moral scorn normally reserved for Manhattan Project nuclear physicists and viral gain of function researchers:
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
- Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park (1993), written by Michael Crichton, retrocausally subtweeting Robert Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr, and Richard Feynman
Then, join me in agony as Confuscian truth collides with Conradian Horror:
"To defeat WordPress, you must become WordPress."
- Frederick Lowe (2025), tearful bathroom mirror admission
Links
I love to read and I love a good reference. Here's what I'm reading and referencing right about now-ish, plus a few of my all-time favorites:
The Prompting Guide. Prompting Guide, n.d. - Introducing the field, tips and examples for crafting effective prompts to improve LLM outputs, model information, and more.
Brown, Tom B., et al. 'Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners.' arXiv, 2020 - How scaling large language models improves few-shot learning performance on various NLP tasks without task-specific fine-tuning.
Pirsig, Robert M. 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values.' Morrow, 1974 - Examines the relationship between technology, philosophy, and quality.
Robbins, Tom. 'Still Life with Woodpecker.' Bantam, 1980 - A love story set inside a pack of Camel cigarettes.
García Márquez, Gabriel. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.' Harper & Row, 1970 - The multigenerational saga of the Buendía family.