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.
From the lab
Engineering essays on agents, retrieval, and automation — written while the solder is still warm.
Everyone ships the pipeline. Almost nobody ships the harness that proves it works. Here's the eval setup we refuse to launch without.
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'.
The biggest automation failures we see share one root cause: they automated the official process instead of the real one.