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The Deep Tensors blog

What we learn shipping AI systems, computer vision, and automation into production — written for the engineers and operators who have to run them.

AI EngineeringLLMs2 min

Why most AI agents fail in production

The demo works, the pilot stalls, the rollout quietly dies. Four failure modes we see in almost every agent project — and what a system that survives contact with real users looks like.

Ishtiyaq KhanJul 28, 2026
AI EngineeringLLMs1 min

RAG is not a product: retrieval patterns that hold up

Chunk, embed, search, stuff into a prompt. That pipeline gets you a convincing prototype and a support queue full of confidently wrong answers. Here is what we build instead.

Ishtiyaq KhanJul 14, 2026