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Governed Enterprise AI Memory Beyond RAG: From Vector Retrieval to Permissioned Knowledge Graphs
Explores how permissioned, provenance-preserving knowledge graphs can support enterprise AI memory beyond conventional vector retrieval.
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AI architect writing about systems that remember, fail, and improve
I build AI systems, memory tools, and production software, then write down the decisions, mistakes, and tradeoffs that changed how I think.
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AI Memory Beyond RAG: Vectors, Graphs, and Dense-Mem
RAG is not magic memory. A practical explanation of chunks, embeddings, vector search, graph-backed memory, and why durable AI memory needs provenance, conflict handling, and retrieval policy.
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ai-llmsFrom Software Developer to AI Architect: What Changed in One Year
A personal journey from Claude Code skills to TypeScript state machines, MCP tools, and finally SDK-based AI workflows. Skills help, tools help, but prompts are not enforcement and LLMs should not own the control plane.
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ai-llms"My Company Doesn't Need AI." Think Again.
AI adoption is not just tool selection. Even companies that think they do not need AI need to understand where AI fits, what should stay deterministic, and who owns customization, safety, and long-term control.
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ai-llmsDon't You Think Your AI Is Too Optimistic?
RLHF can reward agreement over accuracy, turning AI into a source of sugar-coated bullets — validation that hides failure modes. How persistent adversarial rules change the default from flattery to honest challenge.
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