About two and a half years ago I wrote an article called AI Gets a Cheat Sheet: Retrieval Augmented Generation Explained where I broke down what RAG is, how retrieval technologies work, and why getting your data prepped matters before you can even think about plugging this stuff in. That article was focused on the what and the why of RAG, and at the time the ecosystem was still pretty early. People were just starting to wrap their heads around vector databases, semantic search, and how all of it tied back to foundation models.

A lot has changed since then.... read more

When you watch movies about hacking, the hack is always seamless, things just work,those of us that have worked in this space know that is not the case. There are endless variables that can go wrong and cause the most simple of tasks to become a frustrating ordeal and it is not until you have done something a bunch of times that you understand the nuances of how to proceed. When I discovered the pwnagotchi—an AI-powered WiFi security tool that runs on a Raspberry Pi—I knew I had to build one. After using it for a few months I was... read more

Why Product Management Matters

I remember sitting in a conference room years ago, surrounded by product managers, developers, and designers. We were three sprints into a project and nobody could agree on what “done” actually meant. The requirements document was 47 pages long. The developers were building features that nobody asked for. The designers were frustrated. And the client? They just wanted something that solved their problem.

That project taught me something that I carry with me to this day: the quality of your input determines the quality of your output. Back then, we were talking about requirements documents and user... read more