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Notes on building AI systems that have to work in production: agents, LLM platforms, and the engineering around them.

• Jun 28, 2026 · 5 min read
  Mistral OCR 4: The Frontier of Document OCR

  An independent benchmark of Mistral OCR 4 against frontier vision models and the open parsing stack on olmOCR-Bench. It lands in the top accuracy tier and is the only system here that also returns grounded, confidence-scored output an agent can cite.

• Nov 26, 2025 · leaddev.com
  Why AI Economics Are Fundamentally Broken

  AI's variable costs never decrease with scale, which breaks the classic software growth playbook.

• Aug 13, 2025 · dataiku.com
  The Agentic AI Cost Iceberg

  Visible API costs are only the tip of what agentic AI actually costs in production.

• Jul 19, 2025 · 10 min read
  Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)

  I've built 12+ AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here's why the current hype around autonomous agents is mathematically impossible and what actually works in production.

• Dec 28, 2024 · 5 min read
  I Tested AI Coding Tools So You Don't Have To: Here's What Actually Works

  An honest review of AI-powered development tools including GitHub Copilot, GPT-engineer, Cody AI, and more. Real experiences, practical insights, and which tools actually boost productivity.