Year in review

2025

The articles I published, the themes that emerged, and the rough scale of what was written across the year.

12

Articles

4.9k

Words

12

Months

Top themes

AI 10AI Engineering 1Architecture 1

Everything published in 2025

14 JanThe LLM Landscape at the Start of 20255 min 18 FebAgentic AI in Production: What Works in 20259 min 11 MarRAG Is Harder Than the Diagram Makes It Look6 min 10 AprReasoning Models: What o1 and DeepSeek Actually Changed8 min 08 MayWhat Changed When Intelligence Got Cheap5 min 15 JunMCP: The Protocol That Made AI Agents Actually Connect to Things7 min 09 JulWhen Everything Became Multimodal5 min 12 AugThe Problem With Shipping AI Features5 min 10 SeptThe Hidden Costs of Production AI6 min 14 OctOpen Source AI Closes the Gap5 min 10 NovDesigning Resilient Distributed Systems: Lessons from Failures10 min 16 DecWhat 2025 Got Right and Wrong About AI6 min