Performance

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Zero Token Architecture: Getting the Model Out of the Hot Path

My homelab runs a daily report agent every morning. It pulls from a handful of sources, works out what changed overnight, and leaves a summary waiting before I’ve opened the laptop. I built it …

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Stop Chasing the Best AI Model. Start Defining the Problem Better!

During an agentic coding session, my AI assistant hit an accuracy wall on a classification task and decided to swap models.

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Multi-Vector Multimodal RAG - The Upgrade Your RAG Pipelines Need

I was building a document search system when something odd happened. The retrieval scores looked fine - cosine similarities in the 0.85+ range, top-5 results all semantically relevant. But the LLM …

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Less Is More - How My Tech Stack Got Leaner and Meaner

I had a Kubernetes cluster running inside my NAS. ArgoCD managing deployments. Cloudflare Zero Trust handling ingress. On paper, it was an enterprise-grade homelab. In practice, it was an …

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Tech Debt: From a Technical Jargon to Real-World Impacts

I recently gave a presentation at my company about tech debt - sharing knowledge, techniques, and experiences on how to manage it properly and efficiently. The response convinced me to write this up …

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