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  1. Aug 14 2026

    The Hard Part of an AI Eval Set Is the Answer Key

    An automated score said my retriever was failing badly. I read the failures by hand and found my own answer key was wrong. Here is what that cost, and what it did not fix.

    · Enterprise · 10 min read

  2. Jul 23 2026

    When the Small Language Model Isn't the Bottleneck

    On an offline 350M assistant, model choice mattered, and then stopped being the limit. Several failures I blamed on the model started in the system around it.

    · Enterprise · 27 min read