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Blogs (2)

Long-form writing about systems, trade-offs, and lessons from building.

2026

Sep 215 min read
RAG quality is a pipeline problem, not a model choice
A practical way to diagnose retrieval-augmented generation by separating ingestion, retrieval, ranking, and answer-generation failures.
- rag
- retrieval
- evaluation
Sep 184 min read
Reliable agent workflows need explicit state
Why production agent systems benefit from visible transitions, bounded tools, and deterministic recovery paths instead of open-ended loops.
- agents
- reliability
- backend