Product-Led AI Engineering: Builder Patterns
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Presentations
Presentations & Talk Notes
Talk artifacts with an accessible written companion—not blog posts in disguise.
DeepSeek-R1: A Profound Quest in Reasoning AI
A 24-slide exploration of DeepSeek-R1 through reinforcement learning, generalization, emergent reasoning, model comparison, and the reliability challenges of tool-using AI agents.
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Reasoning in Clarity: The Power of GraphRAG
A 19-slide practical introduction to GraphRAG for sparse relationships, structural context, multi-hop reasoning, knowledge-graph construction, storage, and graph retrieval.
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The Missing Piece in Graph RAG: Graph Attention Networks
A pinned GraphRAG essay on using graph attention to make retrieval context more query-sensitive for multi-hop reasoning.
Pinned TDS Archive
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Tackle Complex LLM Decision-Making with Language Agent Tree Search (LATS) and GPT-4o
A pinned agent-decision essay on Language Agent Tree Search, deliberation, and inference-time search for harder LLM tasks.
Pinned Medium
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Boost RAG Performance: Enhance Vector Search with Metadata Filters in Azure AI Search
A pinned Azure AI Search essay on metadata filters as a practical retrieval control for production RAG systems.
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Published Posts
Build Signal 2026
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Build 2026 AI Builder Atlas
Intent: map Microsoft Build 2026 AI announcements into builder-ready samples across model, context, tools, harness, and infrastructure.
Microsoft Azure
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Building Agent Harnesses with Microsoft Agent-Framework Durable Extensions
How durable runtime contracts bound long-running agent behavior with state, approvals, checkpointing, and recovery.
Microsoft Azure
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10 RAG Shifts Redefining Production AI in 2026
A systems view of RAG moving toward composable retrieval, late interaction, graph reasoning, freshness, and orchestration.
Microsoft Azure
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Context Engineering with Microsoft Agent Framework's Context Provider API
Context engineering as a bounded prompt-assembly control surface for short-term memory, persistent memory, retrieval, and policy.
Medium
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Stop Blaming the Model: Topological Hardening for Predictable Inference Latency
Inference latency as a topology problem: placement, routing, queues, batching, and system-level control around model serving.
Microsoft Azure
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Fixing Sparse Retrieval with RAPTOR on Azure AI Search
A practical RAPTOR pattern for sparse retrieval when relevant context is distributed across many documents.
Medium
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Reasoning over Features, Not Identities for Personalisation
Notes on using features and segmentation as safer inputs for reasoning-based personalization systems.
Microsoft Azure
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Building Production AI with Microsoft's Agent Framework: Credit Underwriting Case Study
Typed workflow graphs, multi-agent fan-out, HITL, telemetry, and UI feedback loops in a credit-underwriting demo.
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Production Agent Workflows: Orchestration and Observability
Typed workflow graphs, fan-out/fan-in execution, checkpointing, human approval gates, and telemetry for production-grade agent systems.
Medium
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Generative UI
Adaptive interface notes on turning user intent and engagement context into typed UI schemas that remain governable.
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Local PII Pre-Filter with Microsoft Presidio and Qwen 2.5
A local pre-prompt guardrail using Presidio and a small CPU model to reduce PII exposure before LLM calls.
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AI Paradigm Shifts and Their Data Requirements
Notes on why agentic AI, assisted coding, and AI governance require unified and organized data foundations.
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Forward Deployed Engineering for Building AI Agents
Why useful AI agent products often require domain workflow discovery and deployed engineering loops.
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Building Agents on Azure
Implementation notes on Azure agent building blocks, deployment tradeoffs, and production-oriented agent patterns.
Cloud Atlas
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How to improve RAG peformance — Advanced RAG Patterns — Part2
A practical Advanced RAG follow-up covering data preparation, embeddings, retrieval strategy, synthesis, and prompt conditioning.
Cloud Atlas
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Why do RAG pipelines fail? Advanced RAG Patterns — Part1
A failure-mode map for RAG systems across retrieval, augmentation, and generation, with concrete examples of where pipelines lose relevance.