Topic

LLM App Architecture

Prompting, context management, streaming, and structured output for real applications.

July 8, 2026/2 min

Why I don't use LangChain in production RAG

Frameworks are great for a demo. In production, the abstraction you can't see into costs more than it saves.

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July 8, 2026/3 min

When NOT to use RAG (RAG vs fine-tuning vs prompting)

RAG became the default reflex for every LLM problem. Often it's the wrong tool. A straight decision framework for RAG vs fine-tuning vs just prompting.

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July 8, 2026/2 min/reference

A reference architecture for production RAG

The stages every production RAG system needs — indexing, query-time retrieval, and always-on evaluation — and how to order them.

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