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What we learn building products — architecture decisions, design trade-offs, and the occasional strong opinion.

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DesignSep 4, 20261 min read

The handover is part of the product

An engagement that ends with a working system and a team who cannot maintain it has not finished. It has just stopped.

AISep 4, 20261 min read
Retrieval is a data problem before it is a model problem
Most disappointing RAG systems are not failing at generation. They are failing at what was retrieved, and no amount of prompt tuning repairs that.
EngineeringSep 4, 20261 min read
Why we treat performance budgets as requirements
A budget you check after launch is a report. A budget that fails the build is a requirement. The difference shows up in the product.

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