Jun 18, 2026
AI
RAG in production: what nobody tells you about evals
After shipping a dozen RAG systems, here's the eval setup we wish we'd started with on day one.
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INSIGHTS
Engineering, AI, design, and the boring-but-important plumbing in between.
After shipping a dozen RAG systems, here's the eval setup we wish we'd started with on day one.
The trade-offs of going custom for a 40-package monorepo with strict caching requirements.
A pragmatic token taxonomy that maps cleanly to Tailwind, native, and email.
Cold starts, observability, pricing, and the workloads where each one wins.