I spent years deep in the WordPress ecosystem shipping plugins and scaling production systems. I learned firsthand how quickly flexibility turns into fragility when structure is ignored. While I’ve shifted my focus, that insistence on reliability still drives everything I build.

Today, I work on applied AI systems, RAG, and agent architectures. I’m less interested in chasing the “smartest” model and more focused on eliminating the ways they break in production. I focus on better retrieval, strict evaluation, and defensive design.

I’ve shipped rushed code and dealt with the long-term debt that follows. This blog is where I document the better way. I write about hybrid search, guardrails, and the engineering reality of AI. No hype. Just real tradeoffs and systems designed to last.