Just a very quick response to a query someone had. Even though it says "© Scott Galloway 2024" at the bottom it's technically incorrect (well copyright is automatic but YOU have the absolute right to...
Sunday, 23 November 2025 18:39
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Less than a minute
Backpressure is the unsung hero of distributed systems. It's what keeps your queues from bursting at the seams when producers are firing messages faster than consumers can chew through them. Put...
Sunday, 23 November 2025 14:00
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17 minute read
📖 Related to the RAG Series: This article provides a deep dive into Qdrant, the vector database used in:
Part 4: ONNX & Qdrant Implementation - Building semantic search
Part 5: Hybrid Search &...
Sunday, 23 November 2025 13:00
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9 minute read
When you've been blogging since 2004 (yes, really), you accumulate a lot of digital detritus. I recently imported my old posts from 2004-2009 ( https://www.mostlylucid.net/blog/category/Imported) and...
Sunday, 23 November 2025 10:35
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19 minute read
Why treating your branch as a sandbox—and play as legitimate work—produces better software with less stress.
Hot take: Most developers are trying to be perfect at every stage of development, and it's...
Sunday, 23 November 2025 10:00
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20 minute read
📖 Part of the RAG Series: This is Part 5 - production integration patterns:
Part 1: RAG Origins and Fundamentals - What embeddings are, why they matter
Part 2: RAG Architecture and Internals -...
Saturday, 22 November 2025 12:00
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9 minute read
In Part 1 of this RAG series, we covered the fundamentals of Retrieval-Augmented Generation—what it is, how it works, and the underlying technology (embeddings, vector databases, LLM internals). Now...
Saturday, 22 November 2025 10:00
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20 minute read
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we covered RAG's origins, fundamentals, and technical architecture. You understand what RAG is, why it matters, and how it works under the hood. Now it's time to...
Saturday, 22 November 2025 10:00
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21 minute read
In Part 1, we covered RAG's origins, fundamentals, and why it matters. You understand the high-level concept: retrieve relevant information, then use it to generate responses. Now we dive deep into...
Saturday, 22 November 2025 09:30
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25 minute read
Ever searched for "deployment guide" and got nothing, even though there's an article about "publishing to production"? RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) solves this by understanding meaning, not...
Saturday, 22 November 2025 09:00
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16 minute read
Daily standups aren’t inherently bad - but when they become ritual instead of alignment, they waste time and damage trust. This article explores why ceremony is tax, how to measure its value, and...
Friday, 21 November 2025 09:30
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29 minute read
In which we discover that your friendly AI assistant might have ulterior motives (and what to do about it)
Note: This is Part 3 in the "Cooking with DiSE" series. If you haven't read Parts 1-2, you...
Thursday, 20 November 2025 21:00
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22 minute read
When I first integrated Umami analytics into my blog platform, I quickly ran into a frustrating reality: Umami's API documentation is... let's be charitable and call it "minimal." Error messages are...
Thursday, 20 November 2025 14:30
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10 minute read
Evolving AI Workflows and the Drive to Simplicity
Fancy paying me to turn this into a proper product? Drop me a line: scott.galloway+dse@gmail.com
The Thought That Started Everything
Why does a human...
Wednesday, 19 November 2025 18:00
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31 minute read
Why I write tests last, and why that's not what you think it means
Controversial take: Test-Driven Development is a brilliant practice that solves the wrong problem for most creative work. Here's what...
Wednesday, 19 November 2025 10:00
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28 minute read
The finale of the Semantic Memory series. The beginning of something stranger.
Note: This is Part 10—the last in the Semantic Memory series and the first in the DiSE Cooker series. We're moving from...
Wednesday, 19 November 2025 09:00
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27 minute read
When your tools break themselves, your system should remember why and never repeat the mistake
When *DiSE commits murder.
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Tuesday, 18 November 2025 09:00
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30 minute read
When your workflows learn to walk without training wheels (and you stop paying for babysitters)
Note: This is Part 2 in the "Cooking with DiSE" series, exploring practical patterns for...
Tuesday, 18 November 2025 09:00
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25 minute read
When your tools track themselves, evolve themselves, and choose themselves
Note: This is Part 8 in the Semantic Intelligence series. Part 7 covered the overall DSE architecture. This article dives...
Sunday, 16 November 2025 14:00
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39 minute read
When theory meets reality and code starts evolving itself
Note: Inspired by thinking about extensions to mostlylucid.mockllmapi and material for the (never to be released but I like to think about it...
Saturday, 15 November 2025 13:00
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55 minute read
