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Notes on building with AI

Field notes from shipping AI to production — retrieval, cost control, and the reliability patterns that keep real systems running.

Shipping a RAG system that doesn't hallucinate

Retrieval quality — not the model — is where RAG lives or dies. A practical guide to chunking, grounding, and citation strategies for production.

How queue-first design, caching, and per-provider throttling turned a runaway API bill into viable unit economics.

At 50,000 callbacks a day, idempotency and retry logic aren't nice-to-haves — they're the product. Here's the pattern.

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