Why I prefer agents with explicit state
An agent whose full state is a readable object can be debugged in minutes. An agent whose state lives in the conversation history gets debugged in hours.
- Agents
- LangGraph
Digital garden
Notes
Short notes, running ideas and fragments — less polished than an article, more useful than a lost draft.
A trap with overly long system prompts
Stacking rules into a system prompt until it's two pages long has a hidden cost — the model starts quietly ignoring some of them.
- Prompt engineering
A small cheat sheet: evaluating a RAG pipeline
Three questions to ask before calling a RAG pipeline "working", in the order they most often surface a problem.
- RAG
- Evaluation