Articles from 2025

23 articles published in 2025.

December 29, 2025•7 min read

From Contractor to Consultant: The Mindset Shift That Changes Your Income

Contractors sell time. Consultants sell results. That distinction is the whole game. How I changed my pricing, positioning, and client selection once it clicked.

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December 23, 2025·8 min read

What the Teams Actually Shipping Coding Agents Have Figured Out

Coding agents are the most economically viable AI in production today. The patterns Devin, Cline, Amp, and others converged on, and what they mean for anyone building or using agents seriously.

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December 11, 2025·7 min read

Stop Shipping Features: Why AI Products Need an Experiment Mindset

12 features shipped in a quarter. Zero meaningful metrics moved. AI products aren't software projects. The roadmap is a hypothesis board, not a delivery schedule, and treating it otherwise is expensive.

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November 23, 2025·8 min read

Beyond Chunks: Why Faceted Context Is the Future of RAG

Chunk-based RAG returns results. Faceted context gives agents peripheral vision: an understanding of the information landscape that lets them navigate rather than just consume. What that looks like in a domain where getting it wrong matters.

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November 4, 2025·7 min read

Context Engineering: The Skill That Replaced Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering is a symptom, not a skill. The engineers shipping better agents aren't writing better instructions. They're designing better information spaces. Context engineering is the meta-skill no one teaches.

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October 17, 2025•8 min read

Every Service Is Going to Need an MCP Layer

REST APIs were designed for humans calling services through UIs. AI agents are not humans. What breaks when you expose your existing APIs to agents, and what the right architecture looks like.

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September 29, 2025·7 min read

When English Became a Programming Language

v0 just proved that English plus AI can replace traditional web development for most apps. That changes what it means to be a developer. An honest take on what shifts, what doesn't, and what to do about it.

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September 22, 2025·8 min read

Fine-Tuning LLMs Without the RLHF Headache: The DPO Approach

RLHF is the right idea with the wrong implementation cost for most teams. DPO flips the math. How to align a healthcare AI model on clinician feedback without burning a month on reward model engineering.

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September 10, 2025·9 min read

Agency Beats Intelligence: How I Now Hire (And Evaluate Myself)

Raw intelligence is abundant and cheap. The engineers thriving in the AI era are the ones with agency: setting goals, acting under uncertainty, self-correcting. How I changed my interview process to find them.

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August 23, 2025·7 min read

You Are No Longer a Coder: The Shift from Execution to Direction

I stopped writing most of my own code. What changed, what I delegated to AI, what I found it can't do, and why the hardest part of the transition had nothing to do with technology.

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August 5, 2025•7 min read

Context Rot: The Silent Performance Killer in Your LLM Application

Your LLM system works great in demos and degrades in production. The culprit is almost never the model. It's what you're feeding it. How to diagnose and fix context rot before it kills your product.

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July 18, 2025·8 min read

Why Your AI Gets Smarter When You Let It Think Longer

Test-time compute is the most underused lever in production AI right now. What chain-of-thought, best-of-N sampling, and process reward models mean for practitioners, and when to use them instead of grabbing a bigger model.

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June 29, 2025·8 min read

The Async-First Engineering Team: What Actually Works (And What Doesn't)

I went async-first with my remote engineering team. Productivity went up. Culture took a hit. What changed, what broke, and the specific practices that made it worth it.

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June 11, 2025·8 min read

What the AI Tool Ecosystem Is Actually Telling You

Tool selection in healthcare AI is a compliance problem, not a productivity one. Most AI tools that sounded great in 2023 are dead or deprecated. The framework I use for betting on the right ones.

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May 24, 2025·7 min read

What Autonomous Vehicles Taught Me About Multi-Agent AI Design

BAIR researchers discovered that just 5% autonomous vehicle penetration can smooth all highway traffic, with no central coordination. That finding reshapes how I think about building multi-agent AI systems.

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May 6, 2025•7 min read

The Death of Institutional Memory: Why I'm Building Atlas (And Why It Matters)

Every resignation takes a piece of the organization nobody wrote down. Org charts capture hierarchy, not the relationship networks that keep things running. A different approach to preserving institutional knowledge before it walks out the door.

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May 5, 2025·9 min read

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, shapes every other technical choice in your build.

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April 17, 2025·8 min read

The Self-Healing Stack: What AI-Native Infrastructure Actually Means

The AI Cloud vision, where infrastructure monitors, optimizes, and repairs itself, is compelling. Some of it exists today. Most doesn't yet. What self-healing infrastructure looks like in practice, and what engineers should be doing to prepare.

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March 30, 2025·12 min read

FHIR Meets Graph Databases: Exploring Healthcare's Natural Network Structure

FHIR data is a graph. Treating it as flat tables is why most healthcare AI struggles with relationships between patients, providers, and encounters. What happens when you model it the way it actually is.

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February 21, 2025·7 min read

The Tools I Dropped When AI Changed My Development Workflow

AI coding assistants forced a full rethink of every layer of the dev stack. What I dropped, what I added, and the principle behind the restructuring.

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February 4, 2025•8 min read

From GPT-2 to DeepSeek: The Architectural Changes That Actually Mattered

I've been reading ML papers for 10 years. Most don't matter. These architectural choices did. RoPE, GQA, SwiGLU: each one solved a real scaling problem. What to look for when a new model claims 'better architecture.'

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February 3, 2025·8 min read

Building a GenAI Platform That Doesn't Collapse Under Its Own Weight

GenAI platforms don't fail because the models are bad. They fail because teams build everything at once. A practitioner's guide to layered architecture, from the minimal production-ready core to healthcare-grade guardrails.

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January 16, 2025·8 min read

The GenAI Strategy Question You're Not Asking (But Should Be)

Everyone asks 'how should we use GenAI?' The honest answer requires a harder question: does AI's unique capability create new value here, or is it just a more expensive way to do something that already worked? A practitioner's framework for getting this right in healthcare.

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Articles from 2025

From Contractor to Consultant: The Mindset Shift That Changes Your Income

What the Teams Actually Shipping Coding Agents Have Figured Out

Stop Shipping Features: Why AI Products Need an Experiment Mindset

Beyond Chunks: Why Faceted Context Is the Future of RAG

Context Engineering: The Skill That Replaced Prompt Engineering

Every Service Is Going to Need an MCP Layer

When English Became a Programming Language

Fine-Tuning LLMs Without the RLHF Headache: The DPO Approach

Agency Beats Intelligence: How I Now Hire (And Evaluate Myself)

You Are No Longer a Coder: The Shift from Execution to Direction

Context Rot: The Silent Performance Killer in Your LLM Application

Why Your AI Gets Smarter When You Let It Think Longer

The Async-First Engineering Team: What Actually Works (And What Doesn't)

What the AI Tool Ecosystem Is Actually Telling You

What Autonomous Vehicles Taught Me About Multi-Agent AI Design

The Death of Institutional Memory: Why I'm Building Atlas (And Why It Matters)

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

The Self-Healing Stack: What AI-Native Infrastructure Actually Means

FHIR Meets Graph Databases: Exploring Healthcare's Natural Network Structure

The Tools I Dropped When AI Changed My Development Workflow

From GPT-2 to DeepSeek: The Architectural Changes That Actually Mattered

Building a GenAI Platform That Doesn't Collapse Under Its Own Weight

The GenAI Strategy Question You're Not Asking (But Should Be)