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AI Engineering

Write the eval before you write the prompt

Teams get stuck on LLM features for one structural reason: they cannot tell whether a change made things better. The fix is unglamorous and it is not a better model.

  • 18 June 2026
  • 8 min read

Platform

Platform teams without the bureaucracy

The difference between a platform team that accelerates delivery and one that becomes a ticket queue is a single decision about mandates.

  • 15 January 2026
  • 6 min read

Delivery

The release manager is a symptom

If deploying needs a coordinator, the problem is not coordination. Here is what we change first, and why the change advisory board usually survives it.

  • 2 May 2026
  • 6 min read

Data

The metric that disagreed with itself

Two dashboards, one metric, two numbers. The cause is almost never the pipeline — and knowing that changes where you start looking.

  • 27 March 2026
  • 7 min read

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