Blog
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12 articlesBurst Capacity Planning for AI Inference: When Black Friday Meets Your KV Cache
Apr 1810 min
The Capability Elicitation Gap: Why Upgrading to a Newer Model Can Break Your Product
Apr 189 min
Capacity Planning for AI Workloads: Why the Math Breaks When Tokens Are Your Resource
Apr 1811 min
The Cognitive Load Inversion: Why AI Suggestions Feel Helpful but Exhaust You
Apr 189 min
Compaction Traps: Why Long-Running Agents Forget What They Already Tried
Apr 189 min
Compound AI Systems: When Your Pipeline Is Smarter Than Any Single Model
Apr 189 min
Context Windows Aren't Free Storage: The Case for Explicit Eviction Policies
Apr 1810 min
The Context Window Cliff: Application-Level Strategies for Long Conversations
Apr 1810 min
Continuous Deployment for AI Models: Your Rollback Signal Is Wrong
Apr 1810 min
The Conversation Designer's Hidden Role in AI Product Quality
Apr 1810 min
Corpus Architecture for RAG: The Indexing Decisions That Determine Quality Before Retrieval Starts
Apr 1812 min
Cross-Encoder Reranking in Practice: What Cosine Similarity Misses
Apr 1810 min
About Tian Pan
I'm Tian Pan, an engineer-founder focused on agentic engineering — building autonomous AI systems and scaling engineering teams. I write practical guides on system design, technical leadership, and shipping with AI agents. Previously an early engineer at Uber, Brex, and IoTeX.
