Technical Writing

Ideas From the Build

Architecture decisions, agent design patterns, and what I've learned building AI systems and HFT infrastructure.

AI Agents & RAG

Multi-Agent Orchestration: When to Use It and When Not To

My first lead gen system had five agents. The rewrite had two. Same output, 60% lower cost, 22s down to 8s per batch. Here is when multi-agent actually helps and when it just adds failure modes.

Jun 24, 2026 9 min read
AI Agents & RAG

RAG Pipeline Architecture: How to Build It Without a Framework

Most RAG tutorials start with a framework. After one too many silent breakages from LangChain upgrades, I rewrote the core in 120 lines of Python. Here's the architecture that's been running in production.

Jun 24, 2026 10 min read