Notes on building with AI — what works, what quietly does not, and the mistakes worth skipping. Practical rather than promotional.
The wording of a prompt used to be most of the work. As models got better at understanding intent, the difficulty moved somewhere else: choosing what the model sees.
Read this →The difference between an AI demo and an AI product is almost never the model. It is whether the team can answer "did that change make it better?" with evidence.
Read this →Almost every disappointing RAG system is disappointing for the same reason, and it is not the model. The right document never made it into the prompt.
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Read this →Posts here are about the part of building with AI that does not fit in a demo — why a retrieval system returns the wrong document, what changes when a prompt becomes an agent loop, how to tell whether a change actually improved anything. The bias is towards things we had to learn the expensive way.
What you will not find is coverage of every model release. That is well served elsewhere and it dates within a fortnight. The aim is writing that is still useful in a year, which mostly means writing about the problems rather than the products.
If you are earlier on and want structure rather than essays, the learning paths give an ordered route through the same material, and the AI glossary explains any term these posts assume you already know.