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Notes from the side projects: charts, chat assistants, and the lessons in between.

2026

  1. Aug 315 min read

    How michi-chat works

    The journey of one question through michi-chat: guardrails, the semantic cache, the tool loop, and why a LiteLLM proxy makes the AI model a config edit instead of a rewrite.

  2. Aug 304 min read

    Introducing michi-chat

    A small self-hostable chat assistant platform for small businesses: multi-tenant, grounded in tools and RAG, and built to never invent a fact. The first tenant is Mugshot Artisan Cafe of mugshotmnl.com.