How to build LLM-powered developer tools that produce reliable answers in production codebases — covering retrieval, orchestration, and verification.

The articles build a single architecture from the ground up. Read them in order for the full picture, or jump to the component you are working on.

  1. Why LLM-powered tools fail in production
  2. Symbol-granular chunking for code retrieval
  3. Graph-augmented retrieval and reciprocal rank fusion
  4. Incremental graph updates (coming soon)
  5. Deterministic review rules (coming soon)
  6. The plan/dispatch/synthesize pattern (coming soon)
  7. A two-stage verification cascade (coming soon)
  8. Cost attribution by role (coming soon)