The Notebook · Vol. 2026

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Field notes on building intelligent systems — the parts that survive contact with production, and the parts that quietly do not.

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Retrieval works beautifully in a notebook. Here is what actually needs to hold together the moment real users show up.

Voice AI lives or dies on perceived latency. A concrete budget across VAD, ASR, LLM, TTS, and network — and how to buy back time.

Six signals that your automation has outgrown the canvas — and a migration path that does not throw away what you built.