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the implementation.

Notes from building things: what the system needs to do, where the hard parts are, and why a particular design made sense.

AI engineeringData pipelinesBackend engineeringSystems
Sep 2026

Filter before you ask the model

How Coldstart separates cheap decisions from expensive ones in a job-matching pipeline.

3 min read AI engineering
Sep 2026

Keep the heavy work out of the request

A queue-based design for splitting, transcribing, and summarizing long recordings.

3 min read Backend engineering
Sep 2026

Match-state correctness before more workers

The reasoning behind a single-worker, multi-thread deployment for SimCricketX.

3 min read Backend engineering

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