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Notes from the engineering desk.

Lessons learned shipping AI and software to production.

AI Strategy

When to build an AI agent — and when not to

Agentic systems are powerful, but they are not free. A practical decision framework for founders and product leaders.

2026-09-12 · 6 min

AI Engineering

RAG pipelines that survive production

Chunking strategy, metadata discipline and evaluation: the unglamorous work that decides whether retrieval-augmented generation actually works.

2026-08-28 · 8 min

Engineering

Multi-tenant Postgres patterns we actually use

Row-level security vs schema-per-tenant vs database-per-tenant — trade-offs from building multi-tenant platforms.

2026-08-05 · 7 min

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines developers actually love

Fast feedback, boring deploys and automatic rollbacks: designing pipelines that remove fear instead of adding ceremony.

2026-07-15 · 5 min

Design

Design systems for small teams

You don't need a design ops department. A lean token-and-component approach that two people can maintain.

2026-06-20 · 6 min

Leadership

Hiring vs augmenting: the engineering capacity math

When a roadmap outruns your team, the build-vs-buy question is about time-to-impact, not headcount cost.

2026-05-30 · 5 min