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Your First 7 Days with DeepSeek Harness: A Practical Field Guide

A field-tested walkthrough of your first week with DeepSeek Harness, from installation and prompt design to evaluations, tool wiring, and the operational habits that separate demos from production.

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Your First 7 Days with Grok: An Engineer's Field Notes

A working engineer’s day-by-day account of putting Grok through real tasks — code review, debugging, writing SQL, explaining logs, and creative work — with concrete prompts and honest verdicts.

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Your First 7 Days with Claude: A Practical Onboarding Guide for Engineers

A hands-on, engineer-focused walkthrough of the first seven days with Claude — from setup and prompt patterns to tool use, RAG, and the production habits that separate demos from real systems.

Diagram of a RAG pipeline with ingestion, embedding, vector store, and LLM generation stages.

Architecting Production-Ready Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

How to build RAG systems that survive real production traffic: chunking strategies, hybrid retrieval, vector store selection, caching, and the operational patterns teams actually ship.

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Optimizing Small Language Models for Local Edge Inference: Quantization, Pruning, and Runtime Tuning

A field guide to running small language models locally on CPUs, NPUs, and modest GPUs. Covers INT4/INT8 quantization, structured and unstructured pruning, KV-cache tuning, batching, and how to measure what actually matters.