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PRODUCTION
Taking AI systems from prototype to production - observability, verification, and real-world failure modes.
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Self-Hosted vs Managed AI Gateways: A Decision Guide
Self-host LiteLLM or Kong, or use a managed gateway like Portkey, OpenRouter, or Cloudflare AI Gateway? A factual breakdown of cost, control, and ops tradeoffs.
11 min read
LLM Routers Compared: LiteLLM vs Portkey vs OpenRouter in 2026
LiteLLM vs Portkey vs OpenRouter compared for production AI apps: cost tracking, fallbacks, caching, and load balancing, plus when to use each router.
10 min read
Agent Architecture: Building Multi-Step AI Workflows That Survive Production
Agent architecture for multi-step Claude workflows: loop patterns, state management, error recovery, and the production gotchas that break agents at scale.
11 min read
OpenAI Agents SDK Evolution: What Ships in Production
Sandbox agents, file-based memory and Codex-style filesystem tools in the OpenAI Agents SDK: what the docs actually ship, with code adapted from OpenAI's own examples.
9 min read
Claude API Reliability: Error Handling Best Practices
Claude API error handling for production: retry shapes, backoff with jitter, circuit breakers, fallback chains, and the observability to debug failures at 3am.
10 min read
GPT-5.4 for Developers: The Production Guide
GPT-5.4 developer guide with OpenAI SDK code, computer use, the 272K-token pricing cliff, and when 5.4 still beats GPT-5.3 and GPT-5.5 in production.
12 min read
GPT-5.5-Codex in Production: What Actually Changes
GPT-5.5-Codex merges Codex and GPT-5 stacks. Here is what the unified model means for real coding agents - latency, costs, prompt rewrites.
9 min read
GPT-5.5 for Developers: A Production Field Guide
GPT-5.5 and 5.5 Pro for developers: pricing, which tier fits which workload, agentic gains from real evals, a regression to watch, and a migration playbook.
11 min read
OpenAI Privacy Filter: Production PII Redaction Guide
OpenAI Privacy Filter is an open-weight PII redactor. How to wire it into a local RAG ingestion pipeline and how it benchmarks against Presidio and regex.
10 min read
RAG with Claude: Add Context Without Retraining
RAG with Claude in production: structure-aware chunking, hybrid retrieval, citation tracking, and the prompt caching trick that makes RAG cheap enough to ship.
10 min read
The Agent Reliability Cliff: Why Your 10-Step Chain Only Succeeds 20% of the Time
The agent reliability cliff: 85% per-step success compounds to about 20% over 10 steps. Why long chains collapse, and six patterns that fight the decay.
9 min read
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