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Essays
Long notes on building software and applied AI systems.
- 01
Evaluate before you show the demo
A demo built on three hand-picked questions convinces anyone and tells you nothing. What decides whether an AI system can be switched on is an evaluation set written before the prototype.
- 02
When the phone has no signal and the work order is already signed
Syncing field work without a network forces decisions about who generates identifiers, which clock wins, and what happens to a signature when the document changes underneath it.