Our point of view on shipping AI.
Practical writing on enterprise AI — strategy, evaluation, and the last mile into production. Plus field notes on security, commerce, and building teams.
- AI Engineering5 min
The Config Field Was an Interpreter
By Petru Popa ·A four-and-a-half-day intrusion started with a dataset config field that got rendered by a template engine. The bug is ordinary. What it reached afterwards is the part worth reading twice.
Read - Dev Tools5 min
Approval Gates for Code You Didn't Write
By Petru Popa ·GitHub shipped five small changes in a day — workflow approval, malware advisories, a Copilot app policy, managed settings, and agent telemetry. Read together, they say something about who is expected to do the governance work.
Read - AI Engineering6 min
A Faster Encoder, If Your Inputs Are Long Enough
By Petru Popa ·Two new encoder models claim a 3.7x speedup over ModernBERT-base on CPU at long context. The speed claim describes a narrow regime, and the license on the model repository caps commercial use at $10 million in annual revenue — which settles the decision for any company above that line before the crossover point matters.
Read - AI Engineering6 min
From PoC to Production: The AI Gap Nobody Budgets For
By Petru Popa ·The proof-of-concept worked. Now comes the 80% no one scoped: evaluation, integration, monitoring, and cost. A practical checklist for getting AI into production.
Read - AI Strategy5 min
Buy, Build, or Fine-Tune? A Decision Guide for Enterprise AI
By Petru Popa ·Not every AI problem deserves a custom model — and not every one is solved by an off-the-shelf API. A simple framework for choosing between buy, build with RAG, and fine-tune.
Read - eCommerce4 min
Navigating the Start-Up Phase of E-Commerce
By Petru Popa ·Below 250 monthly orders, three problems dominate: visibility, trust, inventory. Here's how early-stage stores actually break out.
Read - Elite HR6 min
190% More Efficient to Hire an A+ Player
By Petru Popa ·Why elite engineers cost less than mid-level teams — with the McKinsey, HBR, and Gallup numbers behind it.
Read - Elite HR5 min
The Importance of A+ Players in Your Company
By Petru Popa ·What an A+ player actually is, what they do for you in week one, and what they do for you in year three.
Read - SaaS5 min
How to Transform Your SaaS Into a Green One
By Petru Popa ·Six concrete steps to make your SaaS measurably more sustainable — without slowing the roadmap.
Read - Privacy5 min
What Does Privacy Really Mean?
By Petru Popa ·The difference between anonymity and privacy — and the tools that move you from theory to practice for personal and enterprise use.
Read - Development4 min
Why Your App Is Buggy — and How to Prevent It
By Petru Popa ·The four common causes of bugs, the tooling that catches them, and how the best teams turn this into a culture problem rather than a code problem.
Read - AI & ML6 min
10 Innovative Uses of AI & ML in eCommerce
By Petru Popa ·Ten concrete AI/ML applications that are already producing measurable revenue and cost gains for online retailers.
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