Blog
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12 articlesModel Upgrade as a Breaking Change: What Your Deployment Pipeline Is Missing
Apr 1911 min
Multi-User AI Sessions: The Context Ownership Problem Nobody Designs For
Apr 199 min
The Multilingual Quality Cliff: Why Your LLM Works Great in English and Quietly Fails Everyone Else
Apr 1910 min
The Multilingual Token Tax: What Building AI for Non-English Users Actually Costs
Apr 1911 min
Organizational Antibodies: Why AI Projects Die After the Pilot
Apr 1911 min
The ORM Impedance Mismatch for AI Agents: Why Your Data Layer Is the Real Bottleneck
Apr 199 min
The Silent Corruption Problem in Parallel Agent Systems
Apr 1912 min
Pipeline Attribution in Compound AI Systems: Finding the Weakest Link Before It Finds You
Apr 1910 min
The Precision-Recall Tradeoff Hiding Inside Your AI Safety Filter
Apr 1910 min
Privacy-Preserving Inference in Practice: The Spectrum Between Cloud APIs and On-Prem
Apr 199 min
The Production Distribution Gap: Why Your Internal Testers Can't Find the Bugs Users Do
Apr 1911 min
Prompt Cache Hit Rate: The Production Metric Your Cost Dashboard Is Missing
Apr 1910 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.
