AI Systems
Retrieval-Augmented Generation and the 89% Problem
RAG systems achieving 89% retrieval accuracy mean 1 in 9 queries produce responses built on incorrect context. These errors are harder to detect than hallucination…
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Mar 23, 2026
AI Systems
The Decaying Half-Life of Synthetic Code
AI-generated code has a measured functional half-life of 4.7 months, decaying approximately twice as fast as human-written equivalents. Generated code lacks the contextual understanding that…
Mar 14, 2026
AI Systems
Hallucination Is Not a Bug
Language model hallucination is treated as a defect, but it is a fundamental property of probabilistic text generation. Models will always produce confident, occasionally fictional…
Mar 12, 2026
AI Systems
Token Budgets and the Illusion of Infinite Context
Large language models operate within fixed context windows, yet most implementations treat these boundaries as infinite. In production systems, retrieval accuracy drops from 89% to…
Mar 09, 2026