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  • 23 June 2026 8 min · ai

    AI Automations Worth Building: Most Do Not Need AI

    Which AI automations are worth paying for, when a scheduled job or scoring rule is better, and what evals, drift and review really cost in production.

  • 19 May 2026 8 min · ai

    How to Hire an AI Engineer Who Can Verify the Work

    How to hire an AI engineer in 2026: interview for evaluation, failure handling, cost and latency discipline, not model names, cheerful demos, or empty claims.

  • 5 May 2026 8 min · ai

    Compound Engineering With Codex: Keeping Agents Honest

    How I keep AI-assisted engineering from becoming a pile of plausible diffs: committed instructions, bounded specs, tests, reviews, and records left behind.

  • 28 April 2026 8 min · ai

    RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Choose the Right System for Work

    A practical RAG vs fine-tuning decision guide that covers retrieval quality, retraining costs, and when a prompt with structured extraction is enough.

  • 7 April 2026 10 min · ai

    Tests as Contracts for AI Coding Agents in Production

    Tests are the specification an AI coding agent can execute. Real import and audio-app examples show how narrow contracts make generated code stay honest.

  • 15 December 2025 8 min · ai

    OpenAI API Integration Checklist for Production Apps

    A production checklist for OpenAI API features: strict response contracts, validation, failure paths, cost limits, versioned prompts and deploy-time evals.

Paul Bădărău · Product Engineer · Timișoara, Romania paul@badarau.net GitHub