Tagged: AI Architecture

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The Marginal Return of Intelligence (And the Marginal Return to It)

One week ago I announced Grazier Ventures and Aqen.ai. Since then I’ve been asked a version of the same question about a dozen times: how are you actually going…

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I Trained a Small Language Model on My City’s Government Documents

A few weeks ago I shipped a phone app that lets residents measure the speed of cars on their street. The thing I learned building it wasn’t about…

Why Neuro-Symbolic AI Matters Today

For the past decade, we’ve watched deep learning transform everything from how we search the web to how we write code. Neural networks have become remarkably good at…

Putting AI to Work in Your Engineering Workflow Today

A few years ago, I wrote about the creeping danger of debt. Debt being the slow accumulation of manual processes, fragile deployments, and tribal knowledge that eventually drowns…

The Pre-AI to Post-AI Company Transition

Leaders must rethink beyond adding ML models. Transition to AI-native architectures and embrace probabilistic systems for robust outcomes in this new era of software.

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