Learning Log

Architecture notes, build logs, and lessons from production.

Practical writing on AI systems, platform engineering, and the tradeoffs that only show up outside demos. No fluff, no theory without grounding.

LessonsApr 16, 202611 min

I Spent Months Improving OCR Accuracy. The Real Breaks Were Somewhere Else.

After building DocPipeline, here are three principles that reshaped how I think about document AI. Schema validation, queue design, and human-in-the-loop are where production systems actually break — not the model.

DocumentAIAIEngineering
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ArchitectureMar 10, 20267 min

Designing Reliable AI Pipelines: What Production Taught Us

AI demos are easy. Production AI systems fail silently. Here's what building real document processing pipelines taught us about reliability, validation, and systems design.

ReliabilityArchitecture
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