<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Cuecoder · Writing</title><description>Cuecoder is an AI engineering studio building hardcore developer tools and infrastructure for the AI era.</description><link>https://cuecoder.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Evals are the product. Everything else is a side effect.</title><link>https://cuecoder.com/writing/evals-are-the-product/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cuecoder.com/writing/evals-are-the-product/</guid><description>After two years shipping LLM features in production, the only artifact worth trusting is a well-designed eval suite. Here is how Cuecoder structures them.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>evals</category><category>infra</category></item><item><title>Stop tuning prompts. Start tuning context.</title><link>https://cuecoder.com/writing/stop-tuning-prompts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cuecoder.com/writing/stop-tuning-prompts/</guid><description>Prompt engineering plateaus fast. The real lever is what you put in front of the model — retrieval, structured tools, and dynamic memory.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>retrieval</category><category>agents</category></item><item><title>Why the gateway got rewritten in Rust</title><link>https://cuecoder.com/writing/rust-for-ai-infra/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cuecoder.com/writing/rust-for-ai-infra/</guid><description>Two years of Python latency tax, a runaway autoscaler, and a 3am incident later — the case for moving the hot path off the GIL.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>rust</category><category>infra</category></item><item><title>Building agents without frameworks</title><link>https://cuecoder.com/writing/agents-without-frameworks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cuecoder.com/writing/agents-without-frameworks/</guid><description>LangGraph, Crew, AutoGen — all good demos, none have shipped what production needed. Here&apos;s the 200-line loop quietly serving production traffic.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>agents</category></item><item><title>Building a SaaS in public is a forcing function for taste</title><link>https://cuecoder.com/writing/saas-public-build/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cuecoder.com/writing/saas-public-build/</guid><description>Public commits, public revenue, public incident reports. Why exposing the work changes what gets shipped.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>build-in-public</category></item><item><title>The 1M context window is a trap (for now)</title><link>https://cuecoder.com/writing/context-windows-trap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cuecoder.com/writing/context-windows-trap/</guid><description>Bigger context windows are exciting and useless without a retrieval strategy. A pragmatic guide to picking what to put in.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>retrieval</category></item></channel></rss>