Essays · Operations Intelligence, AI and Quant
Hossein Narimani — Writing
In-depth writing on quant system design, operational AI, SaaS architecture, custom AI agents and founder execution systems.
What Founder Self-Assessments Can and Cannot Tell You
A test that flatters you is entertainment. A test that changes next week's calendar is a tool.Founder self-assessments are stuck between two extreme positions: sold as deep insight, or dismissed as astrology. Both are wrong, and the difference lies in...
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LLM Agent Observability: The Five Traces You Must Log From Day One
When an agent gives a wrong answer at 2am, logs are the only thing standing between you and a guess.Observability for ordinary services is a...
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How to Diagnose Operational Bottlenecks Before Building Systems: A Five-Step Architect's Framework
Most systems do not fail because they were built badly. They fail because they were built around the wrong problem.I have watched teams spend six...
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How to Evaluate an AI Agent Before It Touches Production
Your agent passed the demo. That says nothing about the 200th ambiguous ticket.An agent always looks good in a demo, because you chose the...
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Founder Performance Coaching vs Motivational Coaching: Why Systems Beat Hype
The Problem Nobody Wants to NameA founder who feels energized for two days after a coaching session, then slides back into the same stuck pattern,...
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