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Architecture9 min read
Retrieval or fine-tuning: a decision you can defend in a steering committee
The question is almost never which one is better. It is which failure mode you can live with, and who owns the data when it changes.
Read Practice8 min readYou cannot ship an LLM feature without an evaluation set
How to build a graded set of 150 examples in a week, wire it into CI, and stop arguing about whether the last prompt change helped.
Read Field note10 min readGetting data out of a building: BMS, BACnet and the gateway question
Why your energy dashboard is stuck at five-minute averages, and the three-layer architecture that gets you to per-asset detail.
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