Fábio Silva — Ideas & GuidesDeveloper building practical software where AI is a solution to real challenges, not the goal.https://madebyfabio.dev/en-gbStop chasing the benchmark, start shippinghttps://madebyfabio.dev/ideas/stop-chasing-the-benchmark/https://madebyfabio.dev/ideas/stop-chasing-the-benchmark/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.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaillmstrategydevelopmentEurope lights up faintly on the AI map — and that should worry us more than the China panichttps://madebyfabio.dev/ideas/europe-ai-compute/https://madebyfabio.dev/ideas/europe-ai-compute/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.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiinfrastructureeuropestrategyAgentic RAG: why your retrieval pipeline needs a brainhttps://madebyfabio.dev/ideas/agentic-rag/https://madebyfabio.dev/ideas/agentic-rag/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.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTairagarchitectureengineeringThe complete n8n self-hosting guidehttps://madebyfabio.dev/guides/self-hosting-n8n/https://madebyfabio.dev/guides/self-hosting-n8n/A practical, production-minded walkthrough for self-hosting n8n — from npx and a single Docker container to Docker Compose behind a reverse proxy and full Kubernetes deployments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenShift. Faithful to the official docs, with sources linked throughout.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTtutorialself-hostingdockerkubernetesdevopsShipping AI in the enterprise: a builder's field guidehttps://madebyfabio.dev/guides/shipping-ai-in-the-enterprise/https://madebyfabio.dev/guides/shipping-ai-in-the-enterprise/Most enterprise AI doesn't fail in the model — it fails in the last mile: integration, evals, rollout, people. A repeatable, phase-gated method for taking AI from idea to production, written from the project manager, AI engineer, and software developer seats at once.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaideliveryenterprisearchitectureproductAI as a solution, not the goalhttps://madebyfabio.dev/ideas/ai-as-a-solution-not-the-goal/https://madebyfabio.dev/ideas/ai-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.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTopinionaidevelopmentStructured outputs that don't break in productionhttps://madebyfabio.dev/guides/structured-outputs-that-dont-break/https://madebyfabio.dev/guides/structured-outputs-that-dont-break/A practical pattern for getting reliable, schema-valid JSON out of an LLM — with validation, retries, and a deterministic fallback — so a bad response never takes down your feature.Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTtutorialaitypescriptreliability