Journal
How to turn AI into real shipping speed: audits, workflows, modernization, and the tactics that hold up in production.
More writing: Ironcrest Software blog and 815 Media blog.
RAG, evals, grounding, and governance — the working vocabulary behind production AI you can depend on. A builder’s field guide to LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, and shipping AI that stays grounded, cites its sources, and refuses to guess.
Read moreSometimes AI is the wrong tool. Here’s when I learned that the hard way.
Read moreA race condition nearly tanked our checkout on a major retail site. Here's what happened.
Read moreVibe coders treat GitHub like a cloud folder for their code. Senior engineers treat the repo as the control plane of an entire software business: code review, audit trails, branch-protection rules, promotions, CI/CD gates and supply-chain security. Here is the difference.
Read moreReal-world gains from modernizing legacy systems can be staggering and measurable.
Read moreAI runs on a unit most people have never heard of: the token. Here is what a token is, how OpenAI (GPT) and Anthropic (Claude) compare model for model, and what each one really costs — in plain English, with charts.
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