Notes
Notes on AI systems, retrieval, and the work that starts after the demo.
Notes on retrieval, evals, observability, and the engineering that starts once the demo is the easy part.
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Which Query Transformation Techniques Actually Help RAG?
HyDE, query rewrite, decomposition, step-back prompting, and fusion for RAG: which query transformation technique fixes which retrieval failure, and when the extra latency pays off.
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Prompt Engineering: From Phrasing to Policy
Prompt design now means response formats, examples, tools, and eval loops, not incantations.
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