Decision guides
Short, opinionated guides for the architecture decisions teams actually wrestle with. Answer a few questions, get a reasoned recommendation.
RAG or fine-tuning?
Answer five questions about your problem and get an opinionated, reasoned recommendation — not a both-have-pros shrug.
One LLM call, or an agent?
Four questions about your task, and a clear answer about how much machinery it actually needs.
Monolith or microservices?
Four questions about your team and your product, and a straight answer — not a list of pros and cons.
AI, or just plain code?
Four questions about your task, and an honest answer about whether it needs a model at all.
Self-host the model, or call an API?
Four questions about your constraints, and an honest answer about whether you should run your own inference.
How much should your agent decide on its own?
Four questions about the stakes, and a clear answer about how long a leash your agent should get.