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The Neural Net Training Recipe That Actually Works
I spent months chasing architecture fixes when my real problem was bad debugging hygiene. The training recipe that works — start simple, visualize everything, tune last — is the unglamorous discipline that separates working models from expensive experiments.
You Don't Need GPT-4 for That: Small Models and Edge Agents
The assumption that frontier models are required for agentic function calling is wrong — and for healthcare AI, it can also be a compliance liability. Here's when a fine-tuned 7B model is the right architecture, and when it isn't.
Multi-Agent Orchestration in Practice: What I Learned Building Parallel Agent Systems
The orchestrator/worker pattern is the key mental model for multi-agent systems. Here is how to structure orchestrators, spawn and manage workers, aggregate results, and avoid the coordination failures that will sink you.
What It Actually Takes to Build a Real LLM Agent
Everyone's talking about agents. Few people have actually built one that works in production. Here's what the architecture papers skip: the failure modes, the memory tradeoffs, the tool design decisions that actually matter.
Three Hard Truths About LLMs in Production Nobody Warned Me About
Twelve years in ML and I still got burned. Stochasticity is a systems design problem. Your target model will be deprecated. Silent failures are worse than loud ones. Here is what production healthcare AI actually taught me.
What AI Agents Actually Are (And What They Can't Do Yet)
Everyone is building 'agents.' Most are just APIs with a system prompt. Here's the precise definition, what the components that actually matter are, the failure modes I've hit, and how to pick the right pattern for your problem.
Stop Using Optional Props: Why Discriminated Unions Make Better React Components
Optional props feel flexible until they ship a runtime error to production that TypeScript should have caught at compile time. Here is the pattern I now use in every component.
CDS Hooks: What Nobody Tells You Before You Build
I spent months building a CDS Hooks integration that actually worked. Here's what the documentation doesn't mention.
The Food Truck Method: Building MVPs That Don't Suck
After building dozens of MVPs, I finally figured out why most turn into dumpster fires. Here's my framework for building fast without the regret.