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LLMs in production
Benchmarks measure the model. Production measures everything around it: latency, cost per token, evaluation you can trust, and the failure modes that only appear at volume.
52 written pieces · 80 toolsAfrica ↔ China tech
This corridor is usually reported as trade statistics or as geopolitics. Seen from Shenzhen it is more specific: handsets and their default software, network equipment and the engineers trained on it, open model weights, payment rails, and people moving in both directions..
47 written pieces · 3 toolsCareers & community
What actually holds value in an engineering career when the first draft of the code is free, how judgement gets acquired when the work that used to teach it is automated, and what it takes to build a technical community from nothing..
36 written pieces · 5 toolsIndustry 4.0
Most plants claim digital transformation while doing digitisation, and the gap between those two words is why so many programmes disappoint. Manufacturing systems, digital twins, predictive maintenance and the integration work nobody photographs..
29 written pieces · 16 toolsEnterprise software
Most architecture advice is written for a scale the reader does not have yet. These pieces argue about sequencing: what a schema registry actually buys you, when a service mesh stops being premature, and what identity costs to self-host..
27 written pieces · 65 toolsAgentic AI
An agent that works in a demo and an agent that survives production are different systems. The gap is almost never the model.
22 written pieces · 70 toolsHardware & IoT
Software people are relearning that compute is a physical good with a supply chain, a power budget and a lead time. Chips, edge devices, sensing and the Shenzhen manufacturing base that makes most of it..
19 written pieces · 43 toolsRAG & retrieval
Retrieval is usually described as a search problem and behaves like an editing problem. The hard part is not finding relevant text, it is deciding what deserves the context window and what is actively making the answer worse.
8 written pieces · 18 toolsRobotics & embodied AI
Robotics is where a model stops being a text prediction and starts moving something with mass. Control, sensing, locomotion and the reality gap between a simulator and a floor.
8 written pieces · 18 toolsDigital transformation
Digitisation converts a paper record to a digital one. Digitalisation changes the process to use it.
7 written pieces · 45 tools