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Technology / Research & PapersWhat the Scaling Laws Paper Actually Says About Your Next Architecture Decision
ArticleIn architecture review conversations, the Chinchilla paper (Hoffmann et al., 2022, arXiv:2203.15556) is cited with high
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Technology / AI for DevelopersBuilding a Local-First AI Assistant With Ollama, Whisper, and 200 Lines of Rust
ArticleI wanted an AI assistant that worked on the train, in the air, and in my basement. No cloud calls. I built one with Olla
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Technology / Libraries & FrameworksWhy I Removed LangChain from Our Production Stack — and Why I Would Do It Again
ArticleAfter fourteen months of running LangChain in a production document-intelligence agent, a financial-services team faced
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Technology / AI Security & GovernanceI Ran the OWASP LLM Top 10 Against My Own Agent App. Three of Them Hit.
ArticleThe OWASP LLM Top 10 reads like it was written for enterprise. I ran all ten against a side-project agent I had running
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Technology / Data StrategyI Generated 50,000 Synthetic Training Examples With One LLM and Fine-Tuned Another. Here Is What Broke at Scale.
ArticleSynthetic data generation is the 'just add water' of fine-tuning advice. I tried it at scale for a real classification t
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Technology / AI EngineeringThe RAG Architecture Anti-Pattern That Is Costing You 40% of Your Inference Budget
ArticleA financial-services client was running a multi-stage RAG pipeline with fixed-size chunking, single-pass vector retrieva
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Technology / Models & BenchmarksGemini 2.5, Claude 3.7, and GPT-4.1: I Ran 100 Code-Generation Prompts Against All Three. Here Are the Results.
ArticleI got tired of reading vendor benchmarks. I ran 100 real code-generation tasks from my own work — 50 Python, 50 TypeScri
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Technology / AI for DevelopersAI Builds the Code. You Still Have to Drive.
ArticleWhy autonomous AI development still breaks down without human engineering judgment, architectural ownership, and quality
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Technology / AI for DevelopersThe Testing Strategy for LLM-Backed Systems That Nobody Seems to Actually Run
ArticleA software platform team was shipping LLM features under a test suite that asserted on exact output strings; after three
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Technology / Research & PapersI Implemented the Self-Consistency Paper From Scratch. Here Is Where It Helps and Where It Does Not.
ArticleSelf-consistency (Wang et al., 2022) is cited in 8,000 papers and used in almost zero production systems I know. I imple
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Technology / Libraries & FrameworksCursor vs. Windsurf vs. Aider: 30 Days of Real Work With Each
ArticleI used Cursor for 10 days, Windsurf for 10 days, and Aider for 10 days — same actual work — and logged every prompt and
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Technology / AI Security & GovernancePrompt Injection Is Not the Biggest LLM Security Risk. Your Tool-Calling Permissions Model Is.
ArticleDuring a red-team exercise against a banking agent with read and write permissions to customer accounts, an indirect pro
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