Architecture Philosophy·8 min read
The Shift From Prototype to System: Why 80% of AI Demos Never Survive Production
A prototype proves a model can generate an answer. An architecture guarantees the system survives rate limits, context window bloat, cascading hallucination loops, and unpredictable API bills.
Agentic Engineering·11 min read
Deterministic Guardrails for Probabilistic Agents: Pydantic, Circuit Breakers & Dead-Letter Queues
How to build unshakeable boundary layers around autonomous LangGraph agents: schema validation gates, error isolation, exponential retry backoff, and human escalation thresholds.
Retrieval Engineering·9 min read
Beyond Naive Vector Search: The Production RAG Architecture Checklist
Why top-k cosine similarity fails under live customer queries. Implementing chunking strategies, hybrid dense-sparse indexing, Cohere cross-encoder re-ranking, and sub-200ms latency budgets.
Systems Evaluation·10 min read
Evaluating Multi-Agent Systems in Production Without Burning Your API Budget
Continuous evaluation frameworks for non-deterministic agent clusters: synthetic regression tests, LLM-as-a-judge boundaries, trajectory scoring, and cost-governed automated benchmarks.