Notes from the field
Writing
Short pieces about things I learned the hard way. No benchmarks, no hype, just what actually broke and what fixed it.
001
RAG in Production: What Nobody Tells You
Beyond basics: chunking strategies, retrieval quality, re-ranking, and the subtle failures that kill accuracy in real deployments. Written from 3 production systems.
8 min read
002
I Used Pip for Years. Poetry for Teams. Then Uv Showed Up.
An honest comparison of pip, poetry, and uv from a working AI engineer. Written plainly, in five minutes.
5 min read
003
Arabic Broke My RAG. Here's What Saved It.
Six small fixes that turned a broken Arabic-dialect chatbot into something usable. From a real production deployment, in three minutes.
5 min read
004
What a $250 Box Can Actually Do: Jetson Orin Nano
A full DeepStream + TensorRT vision pipeline on a palm-sized box, and the traps that cost me a week. From a real edge deployment, in three minutes.
3 min read