Why Production RAG Needs More Than Vector Search
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. How hybrid search, graph retrieval, agents, and evaluation turn a basic RAG pipeline into a production architecture. My RAG prototype looked complete: ingest documents, create embeddings, store vectors, …
From Prompt to Diagram to Pull Request: Building AI-Powered Collaboration on a Visual Canvas
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. How Lucid’s AI diagramming, AI whiteboarding, and the Lucid MCP server let AI agents create, share, and update living documents, with a map to the Microsoft AI stack. …
Rayfin: Define a Full App Backend in TypeScript and Ship It to Microsoft Fabric
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. How an open source SDK turns a set of TypeScript classes into a database, an API, authentication, and hosting, all running as governed services inside Microsoft Fabric. This …
GitHub Copilot Without the Desk: Remote Control, Cloud Sandboxes, and Chronicle
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. A technical guide to running the Copilot CLI from your phone, in an isolated cloud environment, and across a history you can query. GitHub Copilot has grown past …
The Repository That Reviews Itself
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. Triage bots, disposable test boxes, pooled API budgets, and a review loop that calls itself, reconstructed from the source. This article walks through the tooling that keeps OpenClaw, …
If AI Can Clone Your App in a Day, What Is Left to Defend?
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. Software moats, agent architectures, and the engineering that still holds value when the cost of building drops to almost zero. This article looks at software defensibility in a …