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What I learn shipping AI that has to survive real users: evals, agents, cost and the unglamorous parts. No roundups, no filler. Just the build I shipped and what broke.

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Latest9 Jun 2026AI5 min read

Why most small-business AI projects die in week two

The demo is the easy 10 percent. Why small-business AI projects stall after the first two weeks, and the handful of choices that make one actually stick.

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28 May 2026

What actually breaks when you put an LLM in productionLatency spikes, silent cost creep, and the 2am model outage — the failure modes nobody demos, and the guardrails I build around each one before shipping.

Production4 min read

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A new long-form post plus the build I shipped that week. No filler, no roundups.