Tag: llm

All the articles with the tag "llm".

• Text-to-SQL: Easy to Build, Hard to Trust

  3 Aug, 2026

  A Text-to-SQL demo takes an afternoon. Making one you'd let a business decision rest on takes considerably longer. Notes from a production build — three-collection retrieval, golden-set evaluation, guardrails, and the async bottleneck nobody warns you about.

• I Ship LLM Systems for a Living. I Can't Derive Backprop.

  25 Jul, 2026

  Four+ years of engineering, two of them building production AI — an honest inventory of what I still don't know, and the 22-month plan I'm running in public to fix it.