https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/ Building privacy-first, on-device AI for healthcare. Real engineering, real lessons. en Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/diagnostics-without-telemetry.html https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/diagnostics-without-telemetry.html Debugging on-device AI when you can't rely on server logs or remote sessions. Why a privacy-first architecture has to redesign diagnostics around the device instead of abandoning them, and what that redesign actually requires. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-07-21T00:00:00Z https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/we-tried-a-bigger-model-heres-why-we-shelved-it.html https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/we-tried-a-bigger-model-heres-why-we-shelved-it.html A health-specialized language model looked like an obvious upgrade. Getting an honest answer about whether it belonged in the app meant fixing a missing off-ramp, un-rigging our own test, and finally watching a GPU delegate fail to compile the model, twice, identically. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-07-16T00:00:00Z https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/the-problem-was-never-the-gpu.html https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/the-problem-was-never-the-gpu.html A real performance investigation into slow on-device AI inference started with the obvious suspect: the GPU. It ended somewhere nobody expected, a lifecycle policy rebuilding the inference engine on almost every scan — and, on a second pass with a production device and real numbers, a deliberate memory trade-off nobody had re-measured, plus a hard look at whether the phone's GPU and NPU could do any better. A story about optimizing the wrong layer, twice. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-07-14T00:00:00Z https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/llms-vs-slms-why-bigger-isnt-always-better.html https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/llms-vs-slms-why-bigger-isnt-always-better.html The AI industry is obsessed with parameter counts. But model size is only one dimension of quality. The real engineering challenge isn't finding the biggest model. It's choosing the right one for the task. An argument for architectural balance between Large and Small Language Models. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-07-09T00:00:00Z https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/democratizing-ai.html https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/democratizing-ai.html How Small Language Models and Edge AI could make artificial intelligence accessible to billions of people, not only to those with powerful hardware or continuous cloud subscriptions. FarmakoMed as a practical case study. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-07-08T00:00:00Z https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/every-system-needs-a-deliberate-exit-door.html https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/every-system-needs-a-deliberate-exit-door.html Developers spend enormous effort protecting how data enters a system, and almost none designing how it leaves. Exports, backups, reports and logs are the weakest part of most secure architectures. A practical guide to designing outbound trust boundaries. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-07-08T00:00:00Z https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/battery-aware-ai-inference-on-mobile.html https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/battery-aware-ai-inference-on-mobile.html Local AI moves computation from the data centre into the user's pocket, and the battery becomes part of the architecture. An engineering look at why energy is a first-class design constraint for on-device AI, with FarmakoMed as the case study. Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-07-07T00:00:00Z https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/building-self-healing-android-applications.html https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/building-self-healing-android-applications.html A warm Android process shouldn't get slower just for staying alive. An engineering look at runtime recovery, treating a long background stay as a health check instead of waiting for a restart, with FarmakoMed as the real-world case study. Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-07-07T00:00:00Z https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/can-ai-be-sustainable.html https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/can-ai-be-sustainable.html AI is measured by benchmark scores, reasoning quality, and context windows, rarely by the energy an answer required. An engineering look at whether sustainability deserves a seat alongside performance, accuracy, latency, cost, and privacy, with FarmakoMed as one example of a different architecture. Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-07-07T00:00:00Z https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/the-engine-isnt-the-car.html https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/the-engine-isnt-the-car.html FarmakoMed runs Google's Gemma on-device. Does that make it 'a Google product'? An engineering essay on why architecture, not the choice of any single component, is what technological sovereignty actually means. Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-07-05T00:00:00Z https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/ai-should-wait-for-the-user.html https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/ai-should-wait-for-the-user.html Why building seamless on-device AI forced us to redesign our application architecture instead of our machine learning models, a retrospective on lifecycle coupling. Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-07-04T00:00:00Z https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-isnt-compute-its-dependency.html https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-isnt-compute-its-dependency.html AI quietly introduced a new economic unit, the token. An essay on what it means to rent intelligence by the request, and whether that should be the only model. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-07-03T00:00:00Z https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/choosing-a-model-for-on-device-healthcare-ai.html https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/choosing-a-model-for-on-device-healthcare-ai.html Why selecting the 'best' language model is less important than understanding your product constraints, a practical look at on-device model selection using FarmakoMed as the case study. Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-07-02T00:00:00Z https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/privacy-by-architecture.html https://farmakomed.eu/engineering-journal/privacy-by-architecture.html Why local AI changes software architecture, not just privacy policies. When medical data never leaves the device, an entire category of risk disappears with it. Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-07-01T00:00:00Z