NOTES FROM THE WORK
Things worth
thinking through.
Ideas, lessons, and practical questions from building software and exploring AI.
October 16, 2026
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Retrieval
October 16, 2026A retrieval improvement needs a strong baseline
What a query router should be compared against, and why the evaluation split belongs next to the result.
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Engineering
October 16, 2026The backend still matters when the interface is AI
Why approval, state and recovery deserve as much attention as the model response.
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Agents
Agent memory is a system, not a larger prompt
A look at procedural memories, retrieval budgets and the evidence needed before claiming that memory helps.