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March 18, 2026

Agentic AI in production: the demo lies

The demo where an agent books your travel and files your expenses in one fluid run is real. The system you can run for ten thousand customers without a 3am phone call is a different animal entirely.

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January 22, 2026

Small Models

Small models, big deal

Everyone's watching the frontier-model leaderboard. Meanwhile the most useful work I've shipped this year runs on an 8B model that fits on a phone and never phones home.

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RAG done right: it's a search problem, not an AI problem

November 10, 2025

RAG

RAG done right: it's a search problem, not an AI problem

Most RAG projects underperform for the same reason — the team treated retrieval as an AI problem when it was a search problem all along. The model was never your weak link.

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