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Six principles for AI systems that work in production

The AI projects that work in production share a small number of structural decisions. None of them is about the model. All of them are about the system around the model: the threshold defined before the build begins, the constraint treated as architecture rather than an obstacle, the surface designed as the actual product, the MVP scoped as the first instance of the platform, the human kept in the loop as a permanent feature rather than a transitional one. The discipline of building AI well is the discipline of getting these decisions right early enough for the model to do its job, and of refusing to defer them until the cost of deferral becomes unavoidable.

Tudor Iordache - 2 Jul 2026

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Ilie Ghiciuc - 2 Jun 2026

Edge AI inference: what it means for your product architecture

AI inference is moving toward the edge because centralized cloud processing introduces latency, egress costs and data residency constraints that compound as inference volume scales. The decision of where to run inference is determined by five workload characteristics: latency tolerance, data volume, compliance requirements, operational resilience needs and cost profile over time. Most production architectures resolve this by splitting responsibilities between cloud and edge, with the operational overhead of managing a distributed inference fleet remaining the primary factor that determines when the transition is viable.

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Ilie Ghiciuc - 25 May 2026

Why AI automation ROI is highest on repetitive, high-volume processes

Document extraction accuracy at scale is a sequence of failure modes, not a single problem. Fine-tuning an open-weight visual-language model on domain-specific data closes most of the distance from a general-purpose baseline, but rarely reaches the threshold a business case actually requires. Pushing past that ceiling depends on three engineering techniques applied in sequence, each addressing a failure mode the others cannot. There is a question that comes up early in almost every AI conversation we have with founders and product leaders: "Is our process a good candidate for this?" It sounds like a simple question. It is not. A recent MIT study reports that 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots fail to deliver measurable business impact, and that the primary cause is not the technology itself but the absence of workflow integration and a defined outcome before the build begins. Most teams answer the question by focusing on the technology first, evaluating what a particular model or agent framework can do, and then searching for a process to apply it. That sequence produces many promising pilots but leaves production systems in short supply.

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Ionut Lomer - 20 May 2026

The agentic AI starter kit: minimum viable setup for software teams

Part 2 of 2. This article follows "Claude is not a chatbot: how to use it on real software projects". Agentic AI is like a new machine. A powerful one. But nobody shipped a user manual with it, and every company in the room is currently trying to figure out which button does what. That is the honest state of things in 2026. Anthropic is shipping new features faster than most teams can absorb them. Documentation reads like walking into a store where every shelf has something new and there is no map. The instinct is to explore everything. That instinct is the problem.

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Tudor Iordache - 12 May 2026

What Gartner's 2026 tech trends mean for product teams, not CIOs

Of Gartner's ten 2026 technology trends, four matter disproportionately for product builders: AI-native development, multiagent systems, domain-specific language models, and digital trust. AI-assisted development works only when grounded in structured context, not clever prompts. Multiagent systems are already in 80% of enterprise apps shipped in Q1 2026, yet 88% of agent pilots never reach production, because the bottleneck is product design, not model quality. Domain-specific models outperform general ones for targeted use cases, but only when a pre-development business case has set accuracy and cost thresholds.

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Ilie Ghiciuc - 8 May 2026

AI document extraction accuracy: why fine-tuning alone is not enough

Document extraction accuracy is not a single problem but a sequence of failure modes resolved in order. Fine-tuning an open-weight visual-language model closes most of the gap from a general-purpose baseline, but rarely the gap that matters: the one between early performance and the threshold a business case requires. Closing that distance is a separate engineering effort, and the techniques that get there compound on each other rather than substitute for each other.

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Ionut Lomer - 29 Apr 2026

Claude is not a chatbot: how to use it on live product builds

Most teams have adopted AI assistants in some form by now. Few have built systems around them. A single conversation with Claude is transactional. You type a question, you get an answer, and the session ends. That has real value, but it scales like a calculator: only as fast as you type. A system built with Claude is different. Context is loaded before the work starts. The model knows the project methodology, the team constraints, and the deliverable format before a single instruction is given. Output is consistent across sessions. The re-briefing tax disappears.

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