NOTE: This is not a conventional blog article. It is a design spec written for a concrete feature in lucidRAG.
I iteratively feed this document to code-focused LLMs during development to reason about...
Saturday, 17 January 2026 14:00
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12 minute read
Status: In development as part of lucidRAG.
Source: github.com/scottgal/lucidrag
Where this fits: VideoSummarizer is the orchestrator of the lucidRAG family, combining five pipelines into a unified...
Thursday, 15 January 2026 19:00
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25 minute read
Search is one of those features everyone underestimates. It looks trivial until real users start typing real queries -acronyms, half-remembered technical terms, punctuation-heavy names like "ASP.NET",...
Wednesday, 14 January 2026 12:00
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14 minute read
Status: AudioSummarizer.Core is currently in development as part of lucidRAG, a forthcoming mostlylucid product for multi-modal RAG. The implementation is complete and working—this article documents...
Monday, 12 January 2026 18:00
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34 minute read
I built StyloFlow because I kept writing the same pattern over and over: components that react to what happened before, emit confidence scores, and sometimes need to escalate to more expensive...
Sunday, 11 January 2026 14:00
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23 minute read
If you're brand new to RAG, start with RAG Explained and RAG Architecture. This post is for the point where you've built a RAG pipeline that mostly works… and now you're paying for it in cost,...
Thursday, 08 January 2026 19:00
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18 minute read
Part 4: Image Intelligence introduced the ImageSummarizer wave architecture and the broader patterns. This article deep-dives into the OCR subsystem—three tiers of text extraction, intelligent...
Wednesday, 07 January 2026 18:00
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29 minute read
Parts 1-3 described Constrained Fuzziness as an abstract pattern. This article applies those patterns to a working image analysis pipeline that demonstrates the principles in action.
CLI Tool -...
Tuesday, 06 January 2026 17:00
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31 minute read
One of the easiest ways to make an AI system fail is to let it remember too much.
Most "context handling" approaches boil down to one of two mistakes:
Stuff everything into the prompt and hope the...
Tuesday, 06 January 2026 16:00
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16 minute read
Part 1 described a pipeline: Substrate, Proposer, Constrainer. One probabilistic component, bounded by deterministic truth.
But what happens when you have multiple proposers? Multiple LLMs? Vision...
Tuesday, 06 January 2026 15:00
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23 minute read
