Practical thinking for production AI and software.

Technical notes, architecture perspectives, implementation guidance, and evaluation practices for teams building intelligent systems.

ARCHITECTURE01

RAG vs. Fine-Tuning: Choosing the Right Architecture

A practical framework for deciding whether a requirement needs retrieval, prompt engineering, tool use, fine-tuning, or a combination.

FIELD NOTE / PREVIEW
QUALITY02

Testing AI Agents Beyond the Happy Path

How to evaluate tool use, permissions, retries, memory, escalation, ambiguity, and workflow completion.

FIELD NOTE / PREVIEW
PROMPTS03

Prompt Engineering as Software Engineering

Why prompts need architecture, versioning, test cases, release processes, and monitoring.

FIELD NOTE / PREVIEW
RAG04

What Makes an Enterprise Knowledge Assistant Trustworthy?

Retrieval quality, permissions, citations, data boundaries, evaluation, and operational ownership.

FIELD NOTE / PREVIEW
DELIVERY05

From AI Prototype to Production System

The application, integration, testing, monitoring, and governance work required after the demonstration succeeds.

FIELD NOTE / PREVIEW
EVALUATION06

Evaluating RAG Systems with More Than One Score

Evaluate retrieval relevance, context quality, groundedness, citations, completeness, and failure behavior.

FIELD NOTE / PREVIEW