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The AI Engineering Playbook

Practical thinking about AI engineering, building production systems, and making dev teams better with AI. No hype. No jargon walls. Just useful ideas from the work we do every day.

How We Build January 14, 2026

Your AI Is Live. Now What? A Field Guide to LLM Observability

89% of teams with agents in production have observability set up. Only 52% run evals. Here's why that gap is a problem, and what the full stack actually looks like.

12 min read
AI for Business December 10, 2025

How to Measure AI ROI Without Lying to Yourself

49% of organizations can't demonstrate the value of their AI investments. The problem isn't the AI. It's how they're measuring it.

10 min read
AI Playbook November 28, 2025

The Model Price Collapse: What to Build Now That You Couldn't Six Months Ago

Frontier models just got 67% cheaper. Here's what that actually means for the economics of building with AI.

8 min read
How We Build October 15, 2025

Which AI Agent Framework Should You Actually Use?

LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and the OpenAI Agents SDK are all fighting for the same territory. An honest breakdown of which one ships and which is still demo-ware.

10 min read
AI for Engineering Teams September 15, 2025

Your Dev Team Is Using AI Tools Wrong

Every developer has AI tools. Most teams get wildly inconsistent results. The problem isn't the tools. It's the lack of structure around them.

10 min read
AI Playbook August 14, 2025

Understanding MCP: The Protocol Changing AI Integration

Model Context Protocol is redefining how AI agents interact with tools and data sources. A practical introduction for engineering leaders.

10 min read
How We Build July 3, 2025

From Pilot to Production: Why 82% of AI Projects Fail

The gap between a working demo and a production system is where most AI initiatives die. Here's what separates the 18% that make it.

12 min read
AI for Business June 12, 2025

Is Your Business Ready for AI Agents?

A practical framework for evaluating whether your organization is ready to deploy autonomous AI agents, and what to do if you're not there yet.

8 min read

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