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Notes from the system.

Long-form essays and architecture breakdowns. Written in a documentation style — short on rhetoric, long on diagrams, named patterns and explicit tradeoffs.

ART-08
Jun 2026
Architecture

The Shape of Agentic Systems

Most agent failures are not model failures — they are shape failures. A taxonomy of the loops, hierarchies and graphs that actually work in production.

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12 min
ART-07
May 2026
Memory

Memory Is the System

Agent capability is mostly a function of memory design. A breakdown of working, episodic, semantic and procedural memory in practice.

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9 min
ART-06
Apr 2026
RAG

RAG Is a Retrieval Problem, Not a Generation Problem

Why most RAG systems plateau, and the retrieval-side investments that actually move the quality curve.

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7 min
ART-05
Mar 2026
Evaluation

Evals as Product Engineering

Treating evaluation as a first-class system — datasets, judges, traces, regressions and the discipline of continuous quality.

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10 min

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