Ideas
Thinking out loud.
Essays and notes on judgement, restraint, and building things people keep using.
Stop chasing the benchmark, start shipping
Every week a new model tops a new leaderboard, and every week someone rewrites their stack to chase it. Why the 'best AI model' debate is the wrong debate — and what actually separates teams that ship reliable AI from teams that don't.
ReadEurope lights up faintly on the AI map — and that should worry us more than the China panic
What the global distribution of AI computing power means for Europe — as a union, and for the companies that run on it. An interactive map of who owns the world's compute, and an argument for optionality over autarky.
ReadAgentic RAG: why your retrieval pipeline needs a brain
A retrieval pipeline that fetches but never reasons fails silently — a confidently wrong answer with no error thrown. Agentic RAG hands the LLM real agency over how grounding happens, and the engineering discipline that demands.
ReadAI as a solution, not the goal
Most failed AI projects didn't fail because the model was bad. They failed because nobody asked what challenge it was for. A case for challenge-first development.
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