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Kevin Tan

Cloud Architecture · AI Engineering · Distributed Systems

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Section Chunking vs Page Chunking for AI Agents: ~6 Fewer Tool Calls Per PDF Query

Page-mode PDF search costs 2 to 6 extra tool calls per query depending on the document. Section-aware search delivers all three corpora in zero.

A hand flipping through an open library card catalog drawer: a curated index that takes you straight to the right card instead of every card.

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I Cut My AI Agent's Token Costs 21% Without Changing the Model

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How I Added Observability to My AI Agent (Without a Hosted Dashboard)

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Hybrid Search vs Query Routing for AI Agents: Benchmark Results

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Semantic vs Keyword Search for AI Agents: When to Use Each

April 07, 2026 8 min

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