Insights
Notes from work that shipped
Written from engagements rather than from conference talks. Mostly about the parts that turn out to be harder than the parts everyone warns you about.
RAG in production: what actually breaks
A retrieval system that demos well and a retrieval system that survives real users are different systems. These are the failures that show up after launch, and what to instrument before they do.
Read the articlePrompting, RAG or fine-tuning: choosing without guessing
The three approaches solve different problems, and picking the wrong one is expensive in a way that is hard to reverse. A decision framework based on what each actually changes.
Read the articleIntegrating with a core system you are not allowed to change
The constraint that shapes most enterprise integration is that the system of record cannot be touched. Here are the patterns that work under it, and the failure modes each one brings.
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