The right AI tool depends on who's asking, and every tool only works if it's grounded. How I split agentic tooling by persona for a fictional bank: DaaS golden paths for customers, a knowledge-graph-grounded analytics assistant for analysts, and a shared RAG knowledge base.
A walkthrough of the RAG-powered chat widget on this site - how it indexes blog posts, how grounding actually works, and why you don't need expensive managed services to build something solid.
You know you've created value when you've built a product that earns people's trust. A story from a loss-prevention project at AutoZone, and a manufacturing COO who ran the same playbook on a shop floor.
At Google Cloud Next '26, a conversation about genBI made me rethink nearly 20 years of BI assumptions. Here are three shifts worth considering.
I've been interviewing QA/QE candidates lately, and the bar is not what I expected to find. Here's what I'm actually evaluating - shared in the spirit of helping the right people level up.
AI has made it almost too easy to spin up GCP services without thinking through the cost implications. Here's how I built a hard cap that actually cuts off spending - using Google's own recommended pattern.
Someone asked me how I handle ambiguity. Here's my honest answer - and why I'm not entirely sure it's right.
The process of hitting a ceiling, figuring out what's missing, and coming back stronger works the same way whether you're learning handstands or distributed systems.
