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React Tooling 2024: Stop Using the Wrong Shit
20+ React apps built this year. What works, what's a waste of time, and why you're probably overengineering.
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. The unglamorous discipline that separates working models from expensive experiments.
You Don't Need GPT-4 for That: Small Models and Edge Agents
Frontier models aren't required for agentic function calling. For healthcare AI, assuming they are can also be a compliance liability. 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. How to structure orchestrators, spawn and manage workers, aggregate results, and avoid the coordination failures that sink most implementations.
What It Actually Takes to Build a Real LLM Agent
Everyone's talking about agents. Few have shipped one that works in production. The failure modes, memory tradeoffs, and tool design decisions the architecture papers skip.
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. What production healthcare AI taught me.
What AI Agents Actually Are (And What They Can't Do Yet)
Everyone's building 'agents.' Most are just APIs with a system prompt. The precise definition, the components that matter, 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. The pattern that prevents it.
CDS Hooks: What Nobody Tells You Before You Build
CDS Hooks look straightforward until you try to get them working in Epic. Six months of integration reality the documentation glosses over.