Articles
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Stop Doing OLAP In Your OLTP Database
You tracked history in your operational table because it felt responsible. Now every query is a temporal lookup and you can't figure out why everything is slow.
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Success Is Not an F1 Metric
Data scientists can talk for days about model design, hyperparameters, and precision-recall tradeoffs. Ask them what changed for a customer and watch the room go quiet.
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Every Database Textbook Is Wrong
Your professor's favorite schema violates the rules it was supposed to teach you. You've been copying it into production ever since.
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The Simplest Thing
Claude's system prompt says 'try the simplest approach first.' That's good advice for a single decision. It's terrible advice for a project. What happens when nobody's left to know the difference?