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Inside an AI Gateway: 7 Cross-Cutting Concerns That Don't Belong in Your App Code Pull up the source of any production AI feature shipped in 2026 and you'll find the same mess. An OpenAI client wrapped in a try/except. A hardcoded retry. An if model ...

Originally published at Gothar Tech Part of our 2025 software architecture series. The Librarian Principle The standard RAG diagram has become liturgy. Embed. Chunk. Store in a vector database. Retrieve by cosine similarity. Stuff into context. Gen...
The headline says "1 million tokens." The fine print says something different. In April 2026, five frontier models sit at or above the 1 million token mark. One — Meta's Llama 4 Scout — claims 10 million. Numbers like these appear in every vendor ann...

The Problem: Context is a Graveyard In software engineering, having Git means we don’t just store code — we preserve its history. We know which decisions are current and which ones are legacy. Now in LLMs we use transformers, a neural network archite...

A few weeks ago, I was reading a research paper on LLM architecture, and I came across several key terminologies that really helped me grasp the concepts. I thought it would be valuable to share these here. Hope you find them useful too! 1. Tokenizat...
