Blog · 3 essays in LLM
Engineering essays from the bench.
War stories, architecture decisions, and the occasional tirade. Written by the engineers who shipped it.
3 essays found in LLMClear
2026.02.03
RAG Architecture: How to Build a Production RAG Pipeline
How to build a production RAG pipeline: parsing, chunking strategies, hybrid retrieval, reranking and evaluation, with a working Python example.
2026.01.28
How to Build AI Agents for Production: A Practical Guide
How to build AI agents that hold up in production: the agent loop, tool design, state and memory, hard limits, evaluation, and the failures to plan for.
2025.03.27
How to Fine-Tune an LLM: When It Pays Off, LoRA and QLoRA
When fine-tuning an LLM beats prompting and RAG, how to build the dataset, train with LoRA or QLoRA, evaluate against a baseline and run adapters safely.
