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    <description>Practitioner notes on shipping AI to production — RAG, agents, evals, MLOps and product engineering, from the DSME Global Links team.</description>
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      <title>The data foundation your AI roadmap is quietly waiting for</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Generative AI</category>
      <description>Most stalled AI initiatives don't have a model problem — they have a data problem nobody owned. What 'AI-ready data' actually means, and the minimum foundation that unblocks the roadmap.</description>
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      <title>Escaping the legacy trap: modernizing systems without a big-bang rewrite</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering</category>
      <description>The full rewrite is the most seductive and most fatal proposal in software. How strangler-fig migrations let you replace a legacy system piece by piece — while the business keeps running on it.</description>
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      <title>Native, cross-platform or PWA: choosing a mobile stack you won't regret</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering</category>
      <description>The mobile stack debate is usually argued on ideology and settled by regret. Here's the decision framework we actually use — including what on-device AI and the app stores change about the answer.</description>
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      <title>AI in regulated industries: shipping intelligence under HIPAA, PCI and friends</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Strategy</category>
      <description>Compliance doesn't have to kill your AI roadmap — but it does change the architecture. Patterns we use to ship AI into healthcare and fintech without turning every release into a legal review.</description>
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      <title>How to buy AI development: a founder's guide to evaluating vendors</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Strategy</category>
      <description>Every agency has an impressive AI demo now. Here's how to tell the teams that ship production systems from the ones that ship slide decks — the questions to ask, the red flags, and how to structure a first engagement that protects you.</description>
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      <title>Computer vision in the wild: what breaks between the lab and the loading dock</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering</category>
      <description>A vision model that scores beautifully on a curated test set can fall apart on its first night shift. Here's what actually changes when CV leaves the lab — and how to build for it.</description>
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      <title>Multi-tenant SaaS architecture: lessons from production</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering</category>
      <description>Tenancy is the one architectural decision you can't refactor your way out of later. What running multi-tenant systems in production has taught us about isolation, noisy neighbors and tenant-aware operations.</description>
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      <title>Scoping an AI MVP: how to ship something real in six weeks</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Strategy</category>
      <description>Most AI projects don't fail at the model — they fail at the scope. How we cut an ambitious AI idea down to a six-week build that proves value with real users.</description>
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      <title>Fine-tune or RAG? Choosing the right way to teach a model your business</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Generative AI</category>
      <description>Both make a general model behave like it knows your domain, but they solve different problems. A practical guide to picking the right one — and knowing when you need both.</description>
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      <title>Guardrails for AI agents that take real actions</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>AI Agents</category>
      <description>An agent that only writes text is low-stakes. An agent that can send emails, move money or change records is a different animal. Here's how we make action-taking agents safe enough to trust.</description>
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      <title>What LLM inference actually costs (and how to cut it)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering</category>
      <description>The token price on the pricing page is the smallest part of the bill. Here's where LLM cost actually comes from in production, and the levers that move it without hurting quality.</description>
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      <title>Evals: turning AI quality into a number you can track</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Generative AI</category>
      <description>Vibes don't ship. If you can't score your AI system, you can't tell whether a prompt tweak helped or quietly broke three other things. Here's how we build evals that hold up.</description>
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      <title>RAG in production: beyond the demo</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Generative AI</category>
      <description>Retrieval-augmented generation is easy to prototype and hard to productionize. Here's what actually matters when you take RAG live.</description>
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      <title>When to use AI agents (and when not to)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>AI Agents</category>
      <description>Agents are powerful and easy to over-apply. A practical framework for deciding when autonomy earns its keep.</description>
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      <title>AI that earns its place</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Strategy</category>
      <description>Not every problem needs a model. How we help teams pick the AI use cases that actually move the numbers.</description>
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      <title>MLOps without the buzzwords</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering</category>
      <description>Models drift, data changes, and yesterday's accuracy is no guarantee. What it really takes to keep AI working in production.</description>
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      <title>Designing trust into AI products</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Strategy</category>
      <description>The difference between AI people use and AI they abandon is rarely the model. It's the experience around it.</description>
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