AI
Decision models
Jev vs Laya
Jev vs Laya for UK tech leads: when to call TypeSafe's hosted decision API and when to self-host the open-weight Laya model on your own infrastructure.
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4 min read
Eight Mile · Writing
Articles on AI
Engineering notes, write-ups and the occasional opinion.
AI
agents
AI Model vs Agentic Harness
AI Model vs Agentic Harness: the model is capability you call; the agentic harness is tools, loops, memory, and policy around it.
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3 min read
AI
agents
Skills vs MCP vs RAG vs Memory
Skills vs MCP vs RAG vs Memory: how agent workflows, tool connectors, retrieval, and durable state differ.
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4 min read
AI
AWS Bedrock
A practical guide to building secure generative AI applications without managing foundation model infrastructure.
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2 min read
AI
LLM vs LRM vs LDM
A concise guide to three model families shaping language, reasoning, and generation.
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2 min read
AI
Better PII Redaction
Combine rule-based detection with lightweight NER for safer, practical sensitive-data masking.
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4 min read
AI
Vector Databases
How similarity search works under the hood, what the index types trade against each other, and how to choose a store without over engineering the problem.
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9 min read
AI
Securing AI Systems
The threats specific to language model applications, why prompt injection has no clean fix, and the architectural decisions that actually contain the damage.
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9 min read
AI
LangChain and LangGraph
What each library actually does, where the split between them lies, when a framework earns its place in your stack, and when plain code is the better answer.
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6 min read
AI
LLMOps in Practice
What it takes to run a language model feature in production: evaluation, versioning, cost control, observability, and the failures monitoring never catches.
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7 min read
AI
How RAG Works
Retrieval augmented generation explained properly: what happens at each stage, why the retrieval half is where projects succeed or fail, and how to evaluate it.
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8 min read