Consumer health products are developed or formulated based on marketing trends, trending “hero” ingredients, supplier stock formulations, and/or formulation expert subjectivity, and sometimes research. While these ways have historically made some market...
A subtle selection bias in machine learning-based causal inference can flip your results — here’s how to spot and fix it Machine learning is great at predicting outcomes. But when we try to use it to estimate causal impact, especially in a two-stage setup,...
I spent months overengineering an AI chatbot. Then I threw most of it away and got better results in two weeks. This is an anecdote of what actually worked when I built production RAG systems at scale, and why the lessons surprised me. The Complexity Trap I was tasked...
Due to the recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), organizations are increasing investments in information technology (IT) infrastructure that best supports automation enabled by AI and ML. While these automated systems can guide...
Most current workflow systems are non-dynamic (static) in nature. Once a workflow is defined (data ingestion → filtering → inference), it does not adapt when edge computing devices fail (e.g., GPUs overheat) or network conditions degrade. This article...
In the high-stakes world of IT infrastructure, the difference between a minor glitch and a major outage is often measured in minutes. Yet, for most organizations, the incident response lifecycle remains stuck in a manual era. As cloud environments grow...
Over the last two years, the artificial intelligence discussion has been preoccupied with scale. Larger models, more parameters and continually increasing infrastructure investment have been staged as the seemingly unavoidable future of enterprise AI. But within...
When I joined a B2B SaaS startup in 2021, I was transitioning from a bigger and more mature company. In my previous company, I was working on a particular area of the product – while it was rigorous and intense – I was excited...
Memory is what makes or breaks enterprise chat. Using your AI assistant will feel like a toy, not a production system, if it forgets who the user is, loses context between tickets, or asks the same clarifying questions every time. Naive methods that transmit the whole...
Disclaimer: Even though this blog post sounds harsh, I believe the people involved in the mainframe migration of TSB in 2018 acted always in good faith and with the best of the business and customers in mind. They acted according to the best knowledge available at the...