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Engineering·Jun 2026·6 min

Shipping LLM features without the hype

The boring, reliable scaffolding we put around models so they actually hold up in production.

George HeavensonGeorge Heavenson
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Every team wants AI features. Far fewer want the unglamorous scaffolding that makes them survive contact with real users — and that gap is exactly where most "AI products" quietly die.

We treat a model as one unreliable service among many. That means strict validation on the way in and out, graceful fallbacks when a response comes back malformed, and logging every prompt and completion so failures are debuggable rather than mysterious.

The result is boring in the best way: features that degrade instead of breaking, costs you can predict, and a system your on-call engineer can actually reason about at three in the morning.

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