moepinionShort essays from the people at Moe & Company.https://moepinion.moecompany.com/enThe model won't tell you it's guessinghttps://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/the-model-wont-tell-you-its-guessing/https://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/the-model-wont-tell-you-its-guessing/Most models answer with the same tone whether they're certain or not. If you care about reliability, you have to build the signal yourself.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI & AutomationEngineeringWhen your embeddings stop understanding your documentshttps://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/when-your-embeddings-stop-understanding-your-documents/https://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/when-your-embeddings-stop-understanding-your-documents/Embedding model choice feels like a one-time decision. It isn't. Domain language drifts, and your model doesn't follow it.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI & AutomationEngineeringWhat chasing the top-ranked model actually costshttps://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/chasing-leaderboards-is-burning-your-ai-budget/https://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/chasing-leaderboards-is-burning-your-ai-budget/Moving to the new leaderboard leader every six months slowly eats most of the savings you wanted, and nobody tracks the bill.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI & AutomationEngineeringWhat a leaked system prompt says about yourshttps://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/leaked-prompts-reveal-your-own-prompt-hygiene-problem/https://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/leaked-prompts-reveal-your-own-prompt-hygiene-problem/A leaked system prompt is a good reason to check if your own production prompts have an owner, a version history, or any review.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI & AutomationEngineeringThe unglamorous part of sovereign AIhttps://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/sovereign-ai-dies-in-the-data-room/https://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/sovereign-ai-dies-in-the-data-room/National language-model projects usually stall on who owns the training text and who can allow its use, not on compute or architecture.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI & AutomationPerspectiveWhat your AI vendor can change without telling youhttps://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/you-dont-control-the-ai-you-bought/https://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/you-dont-control-the-ai-you-bought/When you license a model, the vendor often keeps the right to change how it behaves, with little duty to tell you first.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI & AutomationPerspectiveMost of our LLM failures were predictablehttps://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/your-llm-isnt-a-black-box-you-are/https://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/your-llm-isnt-a-black-box-you-are/When an LLM fails in production it is usually a known failure mode we did not plan for, not the model being mysterious.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI & AutomationEngineeringApproval buttons that don't show you the decisionhttps://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/your-ai-agent-approval-button-is-security-theater/https://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/your-ai-agent-approval-button-is-security-theater/Most AI agent approval dialogs hide the data, scope, and reversibility you need to judge the action before you click approve.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI & AutomationEngineeringWhat employees are really objecting tohttps://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/your-employees-are-booing-the-pitch-not-the-tool/https://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/your-employees-are-booing-the-pitch-not-the-tool/When teams resist a new AI rollout, the real problem is usually how it was announced, not the software itself.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTChange ManagementAI & AutomationWhat If We're Wrong About What's Possible?https://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/what-if-were-wrong-about-whats-possible/https://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/what-if-were-wrong-about-whats-possible/Every industry has a 'that's impossible', until someone proves it isn't. What's yours?Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTPerspectiveDer Nutzen von Change-Management: KI-Tools Mitarbeitenden näherbringenhttps://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/der-nutzen-von-change-management/https://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/der-nutzen-von-change-management/Wie Change Management dabei helfen kann, Mitarbeitende für den Einsatz von KI-Tools zu befähigen – und was dabei wirklich zählt.Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTChange ManagementAI & AutomationIn praise of boring softwarehttps://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/the-case-for-boring-software/https://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/the-case-for-boring-software/Why our most reliable systems run on PostgreSQL, Docker and Nginx, and what newer tools really cost you later.Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTEngineeringWhat a forecast can and can't tell youhttps://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/what-forecasts-cant-tell-you/https://moepinion.moecompany.com/blog/what-forecasts-cant-tell-you/A forecast gives you a range of likely outcomes if the past keeps holding, and it goes quiet when the process changes.Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTForecasting & Data