Writing

Notes & essays.

Thoughts on AI, learning, leadership, and the craft of building things that matter.

Five lessons from shipping retrieval-augmented systems to production — the kind that nobody tells you in tutorials.

Why most production AI work is not about the model — and what actually moves the needle.

After building three production agentic systems, here is what works and what is still science fiction.

After building three production agentic systems, here is what works and what is still science fiction.

A defense of the practice of reading hard things daily, even when they seem irrelevant.

Practical observations from designing autonomous-agent systems in resource-constrained, multilingual contexts.