A reference build shows why self-hosted AI should never switch to a cheaper model setting without an eval check first.
A reference build shows a keyword-reading agent let 20 of 30 unsafe actions through, while an expert-owned semantic layer stopped all of them.
A reference build shows how an AI assistant can keep the same request rate yet see its bill and latency explode, and which fixes actually bring it back.
A reference build measured three prompt-injection detectors and a simple tool allow-list. Here is what caught attacks, what cried wolf, and what actually stopped harm.
A small RAG tuning experiment found that some popular tricks did nothing measurable, one did a lot, and the test harness itself had a bug.
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