From the Line to the Terminal: Why I Left Cooking
After eight years in professional kitchens, I traded my knife roll for a keyboard. Here's what I kept.
Hot Take: Your Agent Framework Is a Premature Abstraction
Most agent frameworks solve problems you don't have yet while hiding the ones you do.
StudyEngine Week 3: The Chunking Problem Nobody Warns You About
My RAG pipeline worked great on test data. Then I fed it real textbooks and everything fell apart.
RAG Is Just a Fancy Lookup Table (And That's Fine)
Retrieval-Augmented Generation demystified through the lens of data structures you already know.
Mise en Place for Production: Why Kitchen Discipline Beats Move-Fast Culture
The same principles that keep a kitchen running during a 300-cover Saturday service can prevent your next production incident.
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