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Technical write-ups on why AI systems fail in production and how to fix them — the same failure modes behind what we've seen break, explained in depth.

LLM Integration · Cost
Why LLM inference costs blow up at scale

A feature that costs $0.002 per call looks fine in staging. At 500k calls a day, it's a five-figure monthly surprise. Here's a token budget model that catches it before launch.

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Voice AI · Reliability
Why voice agents fail on out-of-scope questions

Most voice agents are tested against the happy path. Here's why they break on the question nobody scripted for, and how to design for it.

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MLOps · Architecture
Avoiding AI vendor lock-in before it breaks your product

When a model provider deprecates a parameter and every call breaks at once, the real bug was architectural. Here's how to build a provider abstraction layer from day one.

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AI Agents · Support
Why AI customer support agents get escalated back to humans

The easy 80% of tickets works fine. Here's the tiered permission model that stops the agent from overstepping on the other 20%.

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AI Agents · Hiring
Why AI recruiting agents filter out good candidates

Keyword matching rejects people, not just resumes. Here's the semantic-matching and human-review layer that fixes it — and the compliance reason it matters.

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AI Agents · Procurement
Why AI procurement agents stall at the approval step

Good at finding savings, bad at knowing when a purchase needs a human sign-off. Here's the spend-tier routing model that fixes that.

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