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No. 012

I Stopped Paying for a Managed CMS. Here's What I Built Instead.

How I deployed Strapi on a Hetzner dedicated server, connected it to a host PostgreSQL 17 instance, fixed three Dockerfile failures, and got a production CMS running for multiple platforms at near-zero marginal cost.

May 31, 2026
8 min
No. 013

AI Systems Are Not Applications. They Are Infrastructure.

The way we're building AI today is going to break at scale. Not because the models are wrong but because the architecture around them is. Introducing SAAL: AI Systems As A Layer.

May 30, 2026
No. 006

What Actually Fails in Multi-Agent Systems

Multi-agent systems look elegant on paper. In production they fail at handoffs. Here's the pattern and the fix.

Apr 2, 2026
10 min
No. 008

Three Things Shipping Taught Me That Papers Never Do

Research explains mechanisms. Production teaches consequences. The lessons that only come from actually shipping.

Mar 24, 2026
9 min
No. 005

Why AI Systems Fail in Production

Over 80% of AI projects never reach meaningful production. Here's the five-layer architecture model that explains why — and what to do about it.

Mar 11, 2026
15 min
No. 004

Your LLM Doesn't Feel. Regulators Still Classify Its Behavior as Risk.

Regulators don't care if models are conscious. They care if they manipulate, mislead, or harm. What that means for production AI teams building compliant systems.

Mar 9, 2026
12 min
No. 003

A Small Design Lesson From Building a RAG Ingestion System

One architectural decision that changes how production RAG systems handle documents vs. chunks — and why validation at clear boundaries beats enforcement everywhere.

Jan 27, 2026
8 min
No. 011

SAAL: Thinking About AI Systems Like Infrastructure

Just as software decomposed into SaaS and PaaS, AI systems can decompose into modular, independently scalable layers. This is the SAAL thesis.

Jan 5, 2026
12 min
No. 002

From Predictive to Agentic AI: A Practical Map of ML Modeling Types

A reference map across learning paradigms, model purposes, and data modalities — so you reach for the right family for the problem.

Dec 9, 2025
13 min
No. 001

LLMs Aren't the Only Way: The Real Future of AI Nobody's Talking About

110+ research papers analyzed: what production AI engineers need to know about neuro-symbolic systems, world models, embodied intelligence, and the post-LLM era.

Nov 16, 2025
18 min
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