Writing & Research

Essays on production AI

• 2026-07-04 Why my portfolio fights back The design story behind Duel the AI, a 2KB pattern-learning engine that turns visitors into training data.
• 2026-06-21 · Medium ↗ Your RAG Passed the Demo. In Production It Quietly Lies. Four failure modes of production RAG, and the evaluation loop (golden sets, groundedness checks, observability) that catches them before your users do.
• 2026-05-27 · Medium ↗ Why Your RAG Demo Doesn't Survive Production The data-readiness gap nobody talks about: canonical sources, chunking, metadata and lifecycle work that decides answer quality before the model ever runs.