Why your RAG pipeline is lying to you (and how to fix it)

Retrieval quality is the bottleneck nobody talks about. Chunking strategies, embedding model choice, and the hybrid search trick that changed everything for our pipeline.

The case for function calling over chain-of-thought agents

Most teams reaching for autonomous agents should be using structured function calling instead. It's more predictable, cheaper, and easier to debug. Here's when each approach wins.