Developer Onboarding Speed in AI Tooling Stacks
Live web data infrastructure is the real bottleneck slowing AI product onboarding.
Saoirse Callahan
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Saoirse Callahan
Saoirse writes on retrieval-augmented generation and the challenges of keeping AI systems grounded in current information, a beat she developed while researching knowledge graph systems at a European university press. She has been covering knowledge management and search technology since 2008.
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Evaluating RAG Output Quality With Automated Pipelines
Automated metrics catch RAG failures that manual review can't catch as systems scale.
Saoirse Callahan
Domain-Specific RAG for Competitive and Market Intelligence
Generic RAG fails competitive intelligence without live.
Saoirse Callahan
Hybrid Retrieval Combining Vector Search and Live Web Fetch
Combining static indexes with live web search routes time-sensitive queries to current data.
Saoirse Callahan
Web Scraping Architecture for LLM Applications
Proper fetch, parse, and bypass layers prevent LLMs from reasoning on garbage scraped data.
Saoirse Callahan
Knowledge Cutoffs and Their Impact on RAG System Accuracy
RAG systems quietly decay over time as model knowledge grows stale.
Saoirse Callahan
Memory and Context Management in Long-Running Agents
Smarter memory architecture beats bigger context windows for long-running agents.
Saoirse Callahan