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.
When Should an AI Agent Refuse to Act? Designing Escalation Boundaries
The most valuable thing your agent does all week is hand one case to a person.In most projects escalation gets designed as the failure path: when the agent cannot cope, route to support. That framing turns escalation into a defect to be...
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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...
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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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