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Notes from building with models
Practical writing on what holds up once a prototype meets real traffic.
RetrievalRetrieval patterns that hold up in production
Naive similarity search gets you a demo. These four adjustments are what carried our retrieval pipeline through real traffic.
Dana Oyelaran · 18 September 2026 · 8 min
Agents · 27 August 2026 · 7 min
Designing tools agents can actually use
Most agent failures are not reasoning failures. They are interface failures, and the fix is in your function signatures.
Engineering · 14 July 2026 · 6 min
Streaming UX that actually feels fast
Time to first token is the metric your users feel. Here is how to spend it well across retrieval, tools and generation.
Evaluation · 2 June 2026 · 5 min
A small evaluation set beats a big opinion
Thirty graded examples will tell you more about a prompt change than an afternoon of manual spot checking.