BairesDev Blog: Insights on Software Development & Tech Talent

Here’s what matters most before we get into the architecture, tuning decisions, and evaluation methods that make a RAG application production-ready:

Key Points LLMs can generate confident claims that aren’t supported by their training data or available evidence, so grounding answers in retrieved data can reduce unsupported claims that additional training alone can’t addr...

When a pilot shows basic feasibility, model quality usually isn’t the main issue. Instead, it’s often data access and governance, integration with systems of record, provable validation, and business processes nobody updated. Most organizations are still early in that operational maturity, so the fastest path forward is diagnosing which barrier is stalling your program.

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An honest practitioner’s guide to the agile SDLC: the six phases, where implementations turn into ceremony, and the engineering discipline that keeps software shipping.

Key Points The agile software development life cycle (SDLC) has six phases: concept and ideation, inception, iteration and construction, release, production, and retirement. Cargo-cult agile is a common f...

Medtech doesn’t suffer from a lack of developers. It suffers from a lack of the developer, the one who can write production-grade software inside a regulated environment without slowing your pipeline, your submission, or your risk posture.

Key Points The broad developer pool keeps expanding, but engineers with medical-device regulatory experience remain a much narrower t...

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Here’s what engineering leaders need to know before evaluating resource augmentation:

Resource augmentation lets you add specialized skills to your in-house team without the overhead of permanent hiring. You keep ownership of technical direction and project delivery. The model works best when work is bounded, ownership is clear, and your inter...