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AI engineering — explained in plain terms

Practical guides on grounding guards, tenant isolation, RAG architecture, and what an AI MVP actually costs.

May 12, 2026·7 min read

What an AI MVP Actually Costs in 2026

Real 'from' pricing for a production AI MVP in 2026 — feature add-ons, full builds, and multi-tenant platforms — plus what actually moves the number.

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May 26, 2026·6 min read

Offshore vs Local AI Engineering: What Actually Matters

Remote engineering is normal now. The question isn't where your AI team sits — it's how you verify the work when you can't watch it happen.

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June 5, 2026·6 min read

AI That Survives Contact With Production

Most AI demos fall apart the week they meet real users. Here's the engineering practice that makes the difference between a demo and a system that survives production.

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June 16, 2026·9 min read

How to Actually Prove Postgres Row-Level Security Works

A tenant_id filter is a convention every engineer has to remember, forever. Here's how a session variable, a bleed-guard, and a positive-control test turn isolation into something the database enforces instead.

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June 23, 2026·8 min read

Why "Don't Make Up Numbers" Doesn't Work as an LLM Instruction

A model that's told not to invent numbers can ignore that instruction silently. Here's how a grounding guard checks every number against what the system actually computed, and rejects the rest.

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June 30, 2026·8 min read

Why Citations Have to Come From Retrieval, Never From the Model's Own Text

Parsing citations out of a model's own prose trusts the same fallible process twice. Here's why citations have to be built from what retrieval actually returned, not from what the model claims it used.

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July 7, 2026·8 min read

What Actually Happens in a Four-Week AI Build

Three weeks of build, one week testing against real users, and a hard line on what a tight deadline is and isn't allowed to cut. Here's what actually happens inside a four-week AI build.

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Start with a scoping call.

Tell the two architects who'd build it what you need, and they'll tell you plainly what it takes — no sales deck, no pressure to sign anything.

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