Hybrid Search at 60 Million Documents

When Neither Keywords Nor Vectors Are Enough

2026-04-03 · David H. Friedel Jr.

Embedding 60 Million Documents

What Nobody Tells You About Vector Search at Scale

2026-04-01 · David H. Friedel Jr.

Why MCP Needs a Manifest: Solving the Configuration Chaos

From manual JSON copy-pasting to one-click installation, how mcp-manifest.json brings autodiscovery to the MCP ecosystem.

2026-03-30 · David H. Friedel Jr.

What Export Controls Actually Accelerated

The policy designed to constrain China's AI capability may be accelerating the form of efficiency that matters most.

2026-03-29 · David H. Friedel Jr.

What 10 Million Documents Will Teach You the Hard Way

10 principles that seem optional at 10,000 documents and become mandatory at 10 million.

2026-03-29 · David H. Friedel Jr.

We May Be Scaling the Wrong Layer of AI

The market sees one kind of efficiency coming. There are two and they don't arrive on the same timeline.

2026-03-25 · David H. Friedel Jr.

Move Up the Stack

The cost of writing software is collapsing.

2026-03-22 · David H. Friedel Jr.

The Calibration Gap: Why Smart People Still Make Terrible Decisions

Judgment isn't an IQ test. It's an engineering problem, and most people never build the system.

2026-03-12 · David H. Friedel Jr.

Kill the Ego or You Will Misuse the Machine

The silent threshold most people still refuse to acknowledge

2026-03-03 · David H. Friedel Jr.