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AI browser agents: the gap between demo and production

Browser-use AI agents are most valuable when they are a component in a larger system, not when they are deployed as a complete solution. The teams getting durable value treat the agent as a navigation layer feeding into deterministic downstream processes, with serious operational infrastructure around it. The teams that struggle deploy the agent and expect the rest of the system to follow.

Tudor Iordache - 10 Jun 2026

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Edge AI inference: what it means for your product architecture

Tudor Iordache - 2 Jun 2026

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

Ilie Ghiciuc - 25 May 2026

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

Ionut Lomer - 20 May 2026

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Tudor Iordache - 12 May 2026

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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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Ilie Ghiciuc - 22 Apr 2026

How regulated companies build AI without third-party APIs

At some point in almost every AI project we work on with a regulated client, someone on the team says some version of the same thing: "We can't send that data outside." It usually lands like a problem. The obvious implementation path, connect your data to a capable hosted model, get results back, iterate, suddenly has a wall across it. SOC 2 compliance, data residency requirements, security perimeters built around credentials and sensitive client information: any of these can make the default approach to AI architecture a compliance violation rather than a technical decision.

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Tudor Iordache - 16 Apr 2026

Edge computing vs. cloud computing: how to choose your architecture

The edge vs. cloud decision is a workload classification problem, not a technology preference. Five factors determine placement: latency tolerance, data volume, compliance requirements, resilience needs and infrastructure cost. Misallocation in either direction carries measurable consequences, defaulting to cloud accumulates latency debt and egress costs at scale, while premature edge investment introduces operational complexity before the business case is established. Organisational readiness is an independent variable that shapes when edge adoption is viable, separate from whether it is technically warranted.

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Stefan Sarbu - 6 Apr 2026

How to build a business case for AI before writing a line of code

A pre-development business case for an AI initiative functions as a technical constraint document: the cost of what is displaced, the accuracy threshold required to sustain that displacement, and the maximum allowable cost per unit of output together determine architectural decisions before any model is evaluated. Without these constraints defined in advance, accuracy targets become intuitive, infrastructure choices become arbitrary, and the decision to move to production becomes a matter of engineering preference rather than measurable evidence. The sequencing discipline, business case before technical evaluation, is what makes success criteria testable and completion definable.

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Lucian Vasiliu - 24 Mar 2026

Lessons on designing an AI software development workflow

The experiment shows that AI-assisted development becomes reliable only when grounded in structured documentation rather than exploratory prompting. Early output appeared productive but lacked coherence, revealing that incomplete context leads to fragile systems and inefficient iteration. By shifting to short cycles where documentation, constraints and specifications are continuously refined, teams gain more predictable implementation outcomes. Over time, the workflow evolves into a controlled system where AI operates within clearly defined boundaries, reinforcing the role of product reasoning and engineering discipline in shaping results.

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