--- title: "Jay Stance (@jaystance) | Hashnode" description: "Production Grade AI Engineer. Read the latest articles by Jay Stance on Hashnode." url: "https://hashnode.com/@jaystance" --- @jaystance # Jay Stance @jaystance · Lagos, Nigeria · Joined June 2021 Production Grade AI Engineer ### [I almost shipped a cache that would have served confidently wrong answers](https://code-debug.hashnode.dev/i-almost-shipped-a-cache-that-would-have-served-confidently-wrong-answers?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) I almost shipped something that would have quietly handed people the wrong answer, and it would have looked completely correct while doing it. The plan was a semantic cache. It is a reasonable idea, a 15 min read · [code-debug.hashnode.dev](https://code-debug.hashnode.dev/i-almost-shipped-a-cache-that-would-have-served-confidently-wrong-answers?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Aug 4](https://hashnode.com/posts/i-almost-shipped-a-cache-that-would-have-served-confidently-wrong-answers/6a71bdb33c082e684df73d54) ### [You Cannot Own What You Cannot Watch Think](https://code-debug.hashnode.dev/you-cannot-own-what-you-cannot-watch-think?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Why observability stopped being a nice extra the day I let a system make its own decisions 16 min read · [code-debug.hashnode.dev](https://code-debug.hashnode.dev/you-cannot-own-what-you-cannot-watch-think?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Jul 16](https://hashnode.com/posts/you-cannot-own-what-you-cannot-watch-think/6a58e5947e9f9fdf208c99e3) ### [The Hard Lessons Behind Production Agentic AI](https://code-debug.hashnode.dev/the-hard-lessons-behind-production-agentic-ai?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) I have spent a lot of time building agentic AI systems that actually have to work in production. Not demos. Not playgrounds. Real systems that take actions, touch real workflows, and are expected to k 10 min read · [code-debug.hashnode.dev](https://code-debug.hashnode.dev/the-hard-lessons-behind-production-agentic-ai?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Jun 22](https://hashnode.com/posts/the-hard-lessons-behind-production-agentic-ai/6a391a700ce2f37d1c138001)