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Practical writing on agents, RAG, cost, security, and delivery — from production experience.
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What we write about
Engineering insights, AI trends and best practices from the Skugal team.
AI trends, filtered
What new releases mean for production systems, tested before opined.
Delivery lessons
Postmortems and patterns from real engagements, anonymized honestly.
Architecture notes
Short, opinionated takes on recurring design decisions.
What's inside
Written between deployments
Every author ships production AI for a living. The blog is where the lessons land while they're still warm.
Deep dives
The how, with the scars included
Long-form engineering posts: eval harness design, agent state management, retrieval debugging — including the approaches we abandoned and why.
- Architecture decisions with real trade-offs
- Code and config where it helps
- The failed attempts, documented
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Field notes
What the market feels like from inside delivery
New model drops, framework churn, pricing shifts — assessed by running them against live workloads before writing, so takes come with evidence.
- Release assessments on real tasks
- Benchmark notes from our eval sets
- Honest 'wait and see' calls when warranted
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Short takes
Opinions you can disagree with productively
Five-minute reads on recurring debates: build-vs-buy, when multi-agent is overkill, why your RAG plateaued — sharp enough to be useful, sourced enough to argue with.
- One decision per post
- Positions stated, reasoning shown
- Comment-worthy, deliberately
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Draft renewal summary for Acme Corp
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Popular reads
Where readers start
Why your RAG plateaued
The retrieval-first debugging sequence.
Agents that survive month three
What separates demos from systems.
The eval-gate argument
Why every prompt change needs a scoreboard.
Multi-agent, when actually
The honest decision criteria.
Token bills, dissected
Where the money goes and how to stop it.
MCP in production
Tool integration lessons from the field.
Delivery
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Practical guides and tools from teams who ship production AI — so your next decision is grounded in real delivery experience.
- Actionable playbooks
- Architecture blueprints
- Cost & ROI frameworks
- Security checklists
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