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Stories filed under AI Agents — seasonal recipes, chef's notes, and updates from The Cafe at The Inn in Benicia.
AI AgentsEngineering
Why your AI agent needs a memory
Stateless agents re-derive the same context every turn. Here is what to persist.
Parallel AI·
AI AgentsRAG
Shipping RAG without a vector database
Postgres full-text plus a reranker covers more ground than people expect.
Parallel AI·
AI AgentsPerformance
The cost of a chatty tool call
Every round trip is latency the user feels. Batch what you can.
Parallel AI·
EngineeringAI Agents
Structured output beats parsing prose
Ask for JSON and validate it, rather than regexing a paragraph.
Parallel AI·
AI AgentsEvals
When to fine-tune and when not to bother
Most quality problems are prompt or retrieval problems wearing a disguise.
Parallel AI·
AI AgentsEngineeringEvals
A checklist for launching an agent to real users
Logging, fallbacks, spend caps, and a kill switch you have actually tested.
Parallel AI·
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