Building Arabic AI Beyond Interface Translation
Why wrapping a general LLM in an Arabic prompt often fails on dense domain documents, and how to build specialized tokenization, chunking, and hybrid retrieval pipelines.
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// Engineering Insights
Decisions and techniques from building real systems.
Practical writing on AI engineering, Arabic retrieval, model economics, local deployment, and technical product discovery.
Model Routing: Balancing Quality, Latency, and Cost
Why sending every query to frontier LLMs wastes budget, and how tiered routing layers and semantic caching can lower operating costs while improving response times.
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An engineering trade-off comparison between managed cloud APIs and self-hosted open-weights models based on privacy, latency, query volume, and total cost of ownership.
Read Full ArticleBefore Writing Code: What Technical Discovery Must Settle
Before investing a full development budget, a focused technical discovery phase clarifies feasibility, defines the initial scope, and mitigates expensive architecture risks.
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