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.
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.

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.

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.

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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