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Notes from the build. Engineering, architecture, platforms, and the edges of useful AI.
2026
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AI Tools Are Not Magic Bullets
LLMs are not magic bullets. They are powerful translation engines for messy data, especially when you use them to summarize, structure, and move information between systems.
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What Scalability Actually Means in the Age of AI
AI can generate working software quickly, but moving from a proof of concept to a scalable product still depends on architecture, constraints, and disciplined engineering.
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Why Search Is Such a Hard Thing to Talk About
Search sounds like one feature, but it is really a bundle of product decisions, customer expectations, matching strategies, ranking tradeoffs, and business context.