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12 articlesThe Insider Threat You Created When You Deployed Enterprise AI
Apr 169 min
The Instruction Complexity Cliff: Why LLMs Follow 5 Rules Reliably but Not 15
Apr 1610 min
The Jagged Frontier: Why AI Fails at Easy Things and What It Means for Your Product
Apr 1610 min
The Knowledge Contamination Problem: When Your RAG System Ignores Its Own Retrieval
Apr 168 min
Knowledge Cutoff Is a Silent Production Bug
Apr 1611 min
Live Web Grounding in Production: Why Calling a Search API Is Only the Beginning
Apr 1610 min
LLM-as-Annotator Quality Control: When the Labeler and Student Share Training Data
Apr 1610 min
When LLMs Beat Rule-Based Systems for Data Normalization (And When They Don't)
Apr 1611 min
Why LLMs Make Confident Mistakes When Analyzing Your Product Data
Apr 1611 min
The LLM Provider Incident Runbook: Staying Up When Your AI Stack Goes Down
Apr 1611 min
LLM Rate Limits Are a Distributed Systems Problem
Apr 1611 min
The Hidden Switching Costs of LLM Vendor Lock-In
Apr 1611 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.
