Retrieval that actually retrieves: a RAG checklist
Most retrieval-augmented generation failures are retrieval failures. Twelve checks to run before you blame the model.
Maya Okafor & Daniel Reyes3 min read
Daniel Reyes
Platform Engineer
Daniel builds the infrastructure that ML teams stand on: schedulers, inference gateways and cost dashboards. Former SRE, permanent pager-carrier.
Articles by Daniel
The hidden cost of tokens
Per-token prices keep falling, yet our bill kept rising. Where the tokens were really going, and the five changes that cut spend by 61%.
Daniel Reyes2 min read
GPU scheduling for small teams
Four GPUs, nine engineers and a lot of idle time. How a simple queue and a few house rules doubled our utilisation.
Daniel Reyes2 min read
What we learned shipping an AI feature to 40,000 users
A retrospective on launching an AI writing assistant: what we got right, what surprised us, and what we would do differently.
Maya Okafor & Daniel Reyes2 min read
Prompt versioning is configuration management
Prompts are code that changes behaviour in production. Treat them with the same discipline as feature flags and config files.
Daniel Reyes2 min read