From the lab
Field notes from the build floor.
Engineering essays on agents, retrieval, and automation — written while the solder is still warm.
RAG Isn't a Vector Database — It's an Evaluation Discipline
Everyone ships the pipeline. Almost nobody ships the harness that proves it works. Here's the eval setup we refuse to launch without.
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Agents Need Budgets, Not Just Goals
An agent with a goal and no budget is a liability with an API key. The most important lines in our agent code are the ones that say 'stop'.
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Automate the Workflow You Have, Not the One in the Slide Deck
The biggest automation failures we see share one root cause: they automated the official process instead of the real one.
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