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Vision + Language: How Multimodal LLMs Actually Work (And When to Use Them)Vision + Language: How Multimodal LLMs Actually Work (And When to Use Them)
May 5, 2025

Vision + Language: How Multimodal LLMs Actually Work (And When to Use Them)

Multimodal LLMs integrate vision through two fundamentally different architectures. Knowing which one you need — and why — is the decision that shapes every other technical choice in your build.

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When to Look Beyond Standard LLMs (And When to Stop Overthinking It)When to Look Beyond Standard LLMs (And When to Stop Overthinking It)
November 11, 2024

When to Look Beyond Standard LLMs (And When to Stop Overthinking It)

Most teams should use a frontier API and move on. But there are specific situations — extreme latency, long-context scale, cost walls, privacy constraints — where alternative architectures actually matter. Here's the decision framework I use.

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When Recommendations Meet Language: The LLM-RecSys ConvergenceWhen Recommendations Meet Language: The LLM-RecSys Convergence
November 4, 2024

When Recommendations Meet Language: The LLM-RecSys Convergence

Most AI stacks treat the recommendation engine and the language model as two separate systems that hand off to each other. A new class of hybrid models eliminates that seam — and the implications for domain-specific AI are significant.

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I build stuff for healthcare companies. Sometimes it works, sometimes I learn something. Always caffeinated, usually in Nashville.

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