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What we're learning building production systems — AI agents, system design, cloud architecture, data engineering. The architecture decisions, the failure modes, and the fixes. No hype, just the work.

October 30, 2026 · 12 min read

IBM Docling for GenAI and RAG Workflows: A Hands-On Test

IBM's Docling (69,878 GitHub stars) converts complex, unstructured documents into structured data for GenAI and RAG workflows. This hands-on test runs it on a local machine against a plain-extraction baseline — Docling's own technical report, the Transformer paper, a scanned page, a speech clip, and a video — with timings, output evidence, and a Go / No-Go / Monitor verdict.

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October 16, 2026 · 12 min read

Beyond the Chatbot: Engineering a Multi-Agent System That Survives Enterprise Production

I skipped the single "super-agent" and built five domain-isolated specialists on Vertex AI Agent Engine — then worked through the production hurdles that only show up at scale: orphaned sessions, silent memory failures, token bloat, and learning from transcripts without leaking PII.

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LinkedIn April 11, 2026 · 5 min read

The Timeline of Modern AI · Decades in the Making

The real story of how modern AI came to exist: decades of ignored research, one competition, a few bold defections, and one chatbot that changed everything. 1986–2026.

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Medium February 22, 2026 · 10 min read

Connecting MCP Servers to GitHub for Real-Time SQL Lineage

How I used the Model Context Protocol to build a ‘Code Analyst’ agent that traces SQL lineage across GitHub repos — and answers questions about the codebase in plain English.

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