Blog
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12 articlesEvaluating AI Service Vendors Beyond Your LLM Provider
Apr 1810 min
Foundation Model Vendor Strategy: What Enterprise SLAs Actually Guarantee
Apr 1812 min
The Evaluation Paradox: How Goodhart's Law Breaks AI Benchmarks
Apr 1810 min
GraphRAG vs. Vector RAG: The Architecture Decision Teams Make Too Late
Apr 1812 min
Hallucination Is Not a Root Cause: A Debugging Methodology for AI in Production
Apr 1810 min
Why Hallucination Rate Is the Wrong Primary Metric for Production LLM Systems
Apr 188 min
The Idempotency Problem in Agentic Tool Calling
Apr 1811 min
The Inference Optimization Trap: Why Making One Model Faster Can Slow Down Your System
Apr 189 min
What Your Inference Provider Is Hiding From You: KV Cache, Batching, and the Latency Floor
Apr 1811 min
Invisible Model Drift: How Silent Provider Updates Break Production AI
Apr 1810 min
Knowledge Distillation for Production: Teaching Small Models to Do Big Model Tasks
Apr 189 min
Knowledge Distillation Without Fine-Tuning: Extracting Frontier Model Capabilities Into Cheaper Inference Paths
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.
