Constrained Decoding for Reliable Structured Output
How to enforce JSON schemas and grammars at generation time, with architecture patterns, evals, latency tradeoffs and failure modes.
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Building with Generative AI
Practical guides, architecture notes, and lessons from shipping GenAI to production.
Load Shedding for Production GenAI Systems
How to protect GenAI quality under token, queue and dependency pressure with degradation ladders, admission control, evals and rollout.
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Decision Logs for Production GenAI Systems
How to design decision logs that reconstruct why a system answered, abstained, routed, called a tool or triggered a guardrail.
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Auditing Hidden Prompt State in LLM Systems
How to make system prompts, middleware, tool instructions and framework scaffolding observable to prevent silent prompt drift in production.
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Write-Ahead Approval Logs for High-Risk LLM Actions
How write-ahead approval logs control high-risk agent actions, with support for review, replay, cancellation, auditability and rollback.
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Retrieval Sufficiency Checks Before Generation
How to add a sufficiency gate to RAG that detects weak context, picks the right next action and reduces hallucinations before answering.
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SLOs and Error Budgets for Production GenAI
How to define GenAI SLOs beyond uptime, covering quality, grounding, latency, abstention, tool success, cost and safety, plus budgets and alerts.
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Speculative Retrieval to Cut RAG Latency
How speculative retrieval hides search latency in RAG using intent prediction, prefetch and cancellation, with ACL safety, evals and cost tradeoffs.
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Failure-Tolerant JSON Streaming for LLM Apps
How to stream structured JSON from LLMs despite truncation, retries, schema drift and disconnects, with architecture, evals and observability.
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Counterfactual Evaluation for LLM Systems
How to isolate the causal impact of retrieval, routing, prompt, tool policy and guardrail changes on outcomes in GenAI systems.
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Long-Context Models vs Retrieval: A Decision Guide
A framework for deciding when long-context models beat RAG, when retrieval wins, and how to evaluate hybrids under real cost and latency.
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Evaluating Retrieval Coverage Before RAG Launch
How to test whether your corpus can answer expected queries, and find corpus gaps, metadata blind spots and unanswerable query classes.
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