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10 articlesRAG Architecture Lessons from Practice
Building a retrieval-augmented generation system revealed patterns the tutorials don't cover. Contractions break search. Not everything needs an LLM. Full docum
Data Format Contracts for AI Pipelines
When tools interact, implicit assumptions break silently. Explicit data format contracts prevent the debugging sessions you don't have time for.
Context Loss and How to Prevent It
Why AI assistants forget what you told them, and practical strategies to prevent it. The difference between context that survives and context that gets lost.
The Foundation-First Pattern
Why the most effective AI-assisted projects start with humans writing code by hand. The counterintuitive pattern that makes everything else work.
Synthesis Project Management
A lightweight project management system for human-AI collaboration. Designed for context preservation across conversation sessions and context compaction events
How Claude's Memory Actually Works (And Why CLAUDE.md Matters)
Understanding Claude's context architecture changes how you work with it. The tradeoffs between automatic continuity and on-demand depth explain why persistent
What OpenAI's Sora Build Teaches Us About Synthesis Coding
Four engineers shipped a #1 Play Store app in 28 days using AI agents. Their approach validates the patterns I've been writing about — and adds new ones worth s
Polyrepo Synthesis: Synthesis Coding Across Multiple Repositories with Claude Code in Visual Studio Code
I wrote this blog post for software engineers, architects, and technical leads. It is code-heavy and implementation-focused. This weekend I was working acr...
Synthesis Coding with Claude Code: Technical Implementation and Workflows
A hands-on guide to practicing synthesis coding (a.k.a. synthesis engineering) with concrete examples, real workflows, and lessons from production systems ...
Information for Technologists Interested in Learning about Artificial Intelligence
This article is primarily for people with a background in technology and software engineering wanting to learn about AI. Topics include artificial intellig...