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Notes on AI engineering, RAG systems, and building production software — written as I learn it.

June 30, 20262 min read

Prompt Engineering Patterns That Actually Work in Production

Clever one-off prompts don't survive contact with real users. Here are the patterns that held up once traffic, edge cases, and cost constraints entered the picture.

Prompt EngineeringLLMsAI Engineering

May 18, 20262 min read

Building a RAG Pipeline from Scratch: Lessons Learned

What I learned building a retrieval-augmented generation system for real documents, from chunking strategy to the failure modes nobody warns you about.

RAGLLMsAI Engineering

April 2, 20261 min read

Why I Chose Next.js 16 App Router for My AI Portfolio

Server Components, streaming metadata, and file-based conventions made the App Router a better fit than a static site generator for a portfolio meant to double as a product.

Next.jsWeb DevelopmentSEO