·5 min read
From FAQ trees to RAG: what changed in my chatbots
I used to build chatbots as decision trees. Then a vector store and a few well-named files made everything I'd written feel like 1998. A field note on what works.
Writing
Field notes from someone who ships.
Short essays on building products, working with AI, architecture choices, and the discipline of getting things into people's hands. New posts when there's something worth writing down.
·4 min read
Shipping a portfolio with three themes and zero design system library
Tailwind v4, CSS variables, and three carefully picked palettes. Why I skipped shadcn for this one and built primitives by hand.
·7 min read
What I learned building a VoIP product from scratch
Real-time provisioning, transcription, multitenancy and the audio knob nobody told me about. Eleven months of lessons from leading the architecture of Nectar's VoIP.
·3 min read
Pragmatic over perfect
A short essay on why I ship the simplest thing that solves the problem, then iterate when reality pushes back — and why this is harder than it sounds.
·6 min read
When to actually leave the monolith
I've migrated a few services to microservices. Most of those migrations didn't have to happen. Here's the litmus test I now use before recommending the split.