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Writing on AI and software
Practical, technical posts on AI development, AI agents, RAG systems, and custom software, from the team building them.
AI Development
AI Agents vs Chatbots: What's the Real Difference?
Both terms get used interchangeably in marketing copy. They're not the same thing, and picking the wrong one for a project usually shows up as a rebuild six months later.
Technical
RAG Architecture for Production AI Applications
Retrieval-augmented generation is one of those ideas that looks trivial in a diagram and gets genuinely hard the moment real documents, real users, and real edge cases show up.
Custom Software
Custom Software vs Off-the-Shelf: How to Actually Decide
An honest answer, from a company that builds custom software for a living: off-the-shelf is the right call more often than agencies like to admit.
AI Agents
How AI Agents Work: Tools, Memory, Planning and Guardrails
Underneath the term 'AI agent' is a fairly specific set of components. Understanding them is more useful than debating definitions.
AI Agents
When Should a Business Use an AI Agent?
Not every automation problem needs an agent. Some need a simple script, some need a chatbot, and some genuinely need an agent.
SaaS
SaaS MVP Development: What Should You Build First?
The hardest part of a SaaS MVP usually isn't the code. It's deciding what doesn't belong in version one.
SaaS
How to Design a SaaS Architecture That Can Scale
Most 'scaling problems' in SaaS aren't infrastructure problems that show up later. They're design decisions made wrong in year one.
Custom Software
When Does a Business Actually Need Custom Software?
A useful question, since the honest answer is: less often than most custom software pitches suggest.
AI Development
What Determines the Cost of AI Software Development?
There's no honest single number for this. What follows is what actually drives the cost up or down.