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Data Infrastructure for Production AI
Practical writing on AI data engineering, feature stores, and the infrastructure choices that determine whether AI systems work in production.
You're on a cross-country train, sitting by the window. As landscapes roll by, you can see not just where you are, but where you've been and where you're going. You can count how many red barns you've
Open your passport and you see a story told in stamps: where you've been, when you arrived, when you left. Each stamp doesn't erase the previous ones - they accumulate, creating a complete travel hist
Large language models suffer from a critical flaw: their knowledge is frozen at training time, encoded implicitly in billions of parameters, and prone to confident fabrication. This limitation becomes
You're at a vending machine, desperately needing caffeine. You insert a dollar, press B4 for coffee, but nothing happens. Did the machine eat your money? Did it register the button press? In frustrati
Large language models shattered the deterministic paradigm of traditional software. The same prompt can produce different outputs. Model behavior emerges from billions of parameters trained on vast te
Picture yourself at a busy airport gate. The agent announces: "We'll now board passengers in rows 20 through 30." Simple, efficient, everyone knows whether it's their turn. Now imagine instead they sa
A nightclub bouncer with a peculiar condition: they never forget a face they've seen, but sometimes they think they've seen faces they haven't. When someone approaches, they'll either say "You've defi
AI systems increasingly make decisions that profoundly affect human lives. Healthcare systems deny treatment recommendations based on zip codes. Hiring platforms filter resumes based on gender. Crimin
Russian nesting dolls (Matryoshka) are wooden dolls where each one opens to reveal a smaller doll inside, which opens to reveal another, and so on. Each doll represents an operation in your distribute