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Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a default expectation in modern mobile applications, yet its integration often remains superficial. Many applications label features as “AI-powered” while relying on basic heuristics or overusing cloud-based APIs without architectural consideration. On iOS, where performance, privacy, and responsiveness are critical, integrating AI effectively requires more than attaching a model to a feature. It demands careful decisions around execution environments, data flow, lifecycle management, and user experience. When implemented correctly, AI becomes an invisible […]

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There is a particular kind of design problem that nobody really prepares you for in school, and it is not really described in most design job requirements. It is the kind of problem where the technology you are designing for is, by its very nature, invisible; where the product is working in the background, tracking, measuring, or enabling something, and the only moment where the user really experiences it is through the little screen they are looking at […]

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The $25 million video call The finance officer did everything right. He joined the Zoom call. He recognised the CFO’s face. He heard the familiar voice, the same cadence, the same informal tone from dozens of previous meetings. The CFO explained that the acquisition was moving faster than expected. The wire needed to go out before the end of business. Confidentiality was important. Move quickly. He transferred $25 million to an account in Hong Kong. But the bitter […]

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When someone decides it is time for a mortgage, lenders use several metrics about an individual to determine eligibility and reliability. They review a wide range of factors to judge the overall safety of the loan over time. This process helps to not only ensure investor trust but to also have an accurate snapshot of the applicant’s creditworthiness. For this reason, many professionals in this space consider the tri-merge credit report to be the best standard for assessing […]

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Tool: Millisecond Converter LLM reports prompt durations in milliseconds and I got fed up of having to think about how to convert those to seconds and minutes. Tags: tools

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This week’s edition of my email newsletter (aka content from this blog delivered to your inbox) features 4 pelicans riding bicycles, 1 possum on an e-scooter, up to 5 raccoons with ham radios hiding in crowds, 5 blog posts, 8 links, 3 quotes and a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide. Tags: newsletter

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arXiv:2604.21270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There has been remarkable progress over the past decade in establishing finite-sample, non-asymptotic bounds on recovering unknown system parameters from observed system behavior. Surprisingly, however, we show that the current state-of-the-art bounds do not accurately capture the statistical complexity of system identification, even in the most fundamental setting of estimating a discrete-time linear dynamical system (LDS) via ordinary least-squares regression (OLS). Specifically, we utilize asymptotic normality to identify classes of problem instances for […]

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