An AI agent looks like magic in a demo and like plumbing in production. Underneath the branding, it is a loop: the model observes the current state, plans a next step, calls a tool, reads the result, and repeats until the goal is met or it runs out of room. Three things decide whether that loop...
CARBONDALE – Chris Rasmus certainly left a lasting impression with the Old Forge Blue Devils. During his varsity career, the receiver and defensive back did everything he could to uphold the program’s proud tradition. In three seasons, he etched his name among the all-time greats and earned Lac...
Optimizing RAG at Scale: Chunking, Retrieval, and the Bayesian Search That Cut Latency 40% How we moved from "semantic search + hope" to a measured, tunable retrieval pipeline with 95% recall@10 The RAG Reality Check Everyone ships RAG the same way: chunk by 512 tokens, embed with text-embedding-...
Building Production-Grade LLM Evaluation Pipelines: From Vibes to Metrics How we replaced "looks good to me" with automated evaluation catching 92% of hallucinations before deployment The Problem: Why "Vibe Checks" Fail in Production Three months ago, our team shipped a RAG-based customer support...
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When schools closed and child care disappeared during the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of working parents faced the same difficult question: Whose job would have to change?