Building The Elixirs Lab.
A founding note. Why we exist, what we're trying to build, and what we mean by 'restraint over flourish.' Written for our future selves to keep us honest.
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Engineering notes.
Shorter writing — lessons learned, project retrospectives, and notes from the engineering desk.
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Latency budgets for production RAG.
What we learned scaling retrieval-augmented generation past 10M daily requests.
Where RAG latency actually comes from.
After scaling a retrieval-augmented generation system past 10M daily requests, the bottleneck was almost never where I expected. Notes for anyone about to optimise the wrong layer.
The reward hacking we keep seeing.
Patterns observed across hundreds of LLM trajectory annotations on Terminal-Bench.
Regime detection in illiquid frontier markets.
Why volatility-clustering regime models break in thin markets, and a Hidden Markov Model approach that holds up across NGX, NSE, and BVMW.
Why we picked Newsreader.
Notes from selecting a typeface for a brand that needs to feel both editorial and modern.
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