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RAG Didn’t Solve AI. It Made AI a Systems Engineering Problem.

RAG Didn’t Solve AI. It Made AI a Systems Engineering Problem.

RAG became the default way to ground LLMs on enterprise data, but that did not solve AI reliability. It exposed a harder reality: retrieval is infrastructure, and the real work is systems design, governance, and evaluation.

Feb 25, 2026 19 min read
AISystems EngineeringArchitectureBusiness Strategy
Large Context Windows Don’t Make AI Smarter. They Make It Scarcer.

Large Context Windows Don’t Make AI Smarter. They Make It Scarcer.

Large context windows feel like intelligence in demos, but in production they behave like memory allocation and throughput scarcity. The bottleneck moves from retrieval logic to hardware capacity and system design.

Feb 23, 2026 20 min read
AISystems EngineeringInfrastructureEconomicsArchitecture

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