Archive - Full Rank

Should PMs Own Evals?

An eval program is six jobs, assigned to the team you have

Aug 31 • Ryan Sloan

The Illusion of Precision

Probabilities from LLMs are a charade, ask for what they're good at instead.

Aug 24 • Ryan Sloan

A Million-Token Bad Habit

Leave the junk drawer for your kitchen

Aug 17 • Ryan Sloan

The LLM is a jackhammer

Overkill if your problem is a nail.

Aug 10 • Ryan Sloan

Not Every Ticket Is Your Opus

Bigger isn't always better, and you don't have to guess which model you need.

Aug 3 • Ryan Sloan

July 2026

Don't make the model do the math

Well-designed agent tools guard against hallucination

Jul 27 • Ryan Sloan

You can do better than retrieval

Using graph+vector structure to unlock new patterns in data

Jul 20 • Ryan Sloan

Evals are a Compass

A quality gate tells you if you passed. The better question: where are you going?

Jul 13 • Ryan Sloan

April 2025

This is What Your Retention Curve Looks Like

Your free trial length isn't the problem. Activation is.

Apr 22, 2025 • Ryan Sloan

March 2025

Startups: Our AI is Revolutionary! 📣 Game-changing! 📣 Responsible? 🦗

73% of B2B startups are talking AI, but their hype outpaces their responsibility.

Mar 4, 2025 • Ryan Sloan

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