As teams wire up a dozen different models, a new piece of plumbing quietly becomes essential — the AI gateway that routes, governs, and pays the bills. Here’s the architecture, with an airline booking example.
5 min readThe clever one-liner prompt is fading. The real craft now is deciding what an AI model gets to see before it answers.
3 min readThe headlines chase ever-larger frontier models, but the more interesting move in 2026 is downward — small, capable models running on the device in your hand.
2 min readMost AI feature experiments share the same fate: impressive demo, uncomfortable production metrics, quiet retirement. Here’s the design thinking that changes the outcome.
2 min readEvery cloud migration case study ends with success. None of them tell you about the Thursday at 2am when the database connection pool hit zero during a live flash sale.
2 min readAfter two decades of inheriting other people’s burning platforms, I can tell you exactly when enterprise transformations die — and it’s not when the CTO finally admits it.
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