Performance

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

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

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

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

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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