Hey everyone so I restarted the blog back in November and have been steadily puping out the articles but...it's got to the point where I've stopped enjoying it.
The blog landscape has changed since I...
Saturday, 31 January 2026 05:00
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1 minute read
Deep Research without Deep Pockets.
When "Deep Research" landed in the premium AI tools, I was curious: what is this, actually? So I pulled it apart. And once I understood the architecture, I realised...
Thursday, 29 January 2026 10:00
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22 minute read
A glyph-based terminal renderer using shape-matching algorithms. Supports images, animated GIFs, videos, YouTube playback, and live subtitles with multiple render modes including Braille for maximum...
Saturday, 24 January 2026 12:00
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21 minute read
As I've been building lucidRAG I'm reading social media where people keep asking the same thing. 'How you you get features from scanned text?' the category error is always 'just use an LLM'...which...
Wednesday, 21 January 2026 12:00
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19 minute read
"How do I build an MCP server?" is the wrong question.
SDKs exist. An LLM can scaffold one in seconds. The real question is:
What role should an MCP server play inside a system that must not lie?
The...
Tuesday, 20 January 2026 16:00
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13 minute read
LLMs (Large Language Models) are being used as sensors. That is a category error: using a probabilistic synthesizer where a deterministic boundary device is required.
This isn't developers' fault....
Sunday, 18 January 2026 15:33
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13 minute read
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
A Ten Commandments–Compliant Architecture
In which we build a voice-to-form system that doesn't hand the keys to the AI kingdom
Here's the thing about voice interfaces: everyone wants them, nobody...
Monday, 05 January 2026 14:30
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18 minute read
2026-01-06ET14:00
The Pattern That Kept Emerging
It started with my blog's translation tool. The cache kept only 5 tasks per user, with 6-hour absolute and 1-hour sliding expiration. Sixth task?...
Monday, 05 January 2026 10:52
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17 minute read
This is Part 5 of the DocSummarizer series, and it's also the culmination of the GraphRAG series and Semantic Search series. We're combining everything into a deployable web application.
🚨🚨 PREVIEW...
Thursday, 01 January 2026 18:00
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9 minute read
Scott Galloway | AI Systems Engineer | CTO | Head of Engineering | Systems Architect | Remote
I'm a technical leader with over 30 years building and scaling engineering teams and products. I've served...
Wednesday, 31 December 2025 22:30
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12 minute read
