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anthonyrawlins 5e0be60c30 Release v1.2.0: Newspaper-style layout with major UI refinements
This release transforms PING into a sophisticated newspaper-style digital
publication with enhanced readability and professional presentation.

Major Features:
- New FeaturedPostHero component with full-width newspaper design
- Completely redesigned homepage with responsive newspaper grid layout
- Enhanced PostCard component with refined typography and spacing
- Improved mobile-first responsive design (mobile → tablet → desktop → 2XL)
- Archive section with multi-column layout for deeper content discovery

Technical Improvements:
- Enhanced blog post validation and error handling in lib/blog.ts
- Better date handling and normalization for scheduled posts
- Improved Dockerfile with correct content volume mount paths
- Fixed port configuration (3025 throughout stack)
- Updated Tailwind config with refined typography and newspaper aesthetics
- Added getFeaturedPost() function for hero selection

UI/UX Enhancements:
- Professional newspaper-style borders and dividers
- Improved dark mode styling throughout
- Better content hierarchy and visual flow
- Enhanced author bylines and metadata presentation
- Refined color palette with newspaper sophistication

Documentation:
- Added DESIGN_BRIEF_NEWSPAPER_LAYOUT.md detailing design principles
- Added TESTING_RESULTS_25_POSTS.md with test scenarios

This release establishes PING as a premium publication platform for
AI orchestration and contextual intelligence thought leadership.

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Beyond RAG: The Future of AI Context with CHORUS AI is moving fast, but one of the biggest bottlenecks isn't model size or compute power—it's context management. Here's how CHORUS goes beyond traditional RAG approaches. 2025-02-27 2025-02-27T09:00:00.000Z
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AI is moving fast, but one of the biggest bottlenecks isnt model size or compute power, its context management.

For years, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has been the go-to method for extending large language models (LLMs). By bolting on vector databases and search, RAG helps models pull in relevant documents. It works, but only to a point. Anyone whos scaled production systems knows the cracks:

  • RAG treats knowledge as flat text snippets, missing relationships and nuance.
  • Git and other version-control systems capture code history, but not the evolving reasoning behind decisions.
  • Static context caches snap a picture in time, but knowledge and workflows dont stand still.

In short: RAG, Git, and static context snapshots arent enough for the next generation of AI.

Why Hierarchical Context Matters

Knowledge isnt just a pile of files — its layered, temporal, and deeply interconnected. AI systems need to track how reasoning unfolds, why decisions were made, and how context evolves over time. Thats where Chorus comes in.

Instead of treating context as documents to fetch, we treat it as a living, distributed hierarchy. Chorus enables agents to share, navigate, and build on structured threads of reasoning across domains and time. Its not just about retrieval — its about orchestration, memory, and continuity.

Research Is Moving the Same Way

The AI research frontier points in this direction too:

  • NVIDIAs recent small model papers showed that scaling up isnt the only answer — well-designed small models can outperform by being more structured and specialized.
  • The Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) highlights how smarter architectures, not just bigger context windows, unlock deeper reasoning.

Both emphasize the same principle: intelligence comes from structure, not size alone.

Whats Next

Chorus is building the scaffolding for this new paradigm. Our goal is to make context:

  • Persistent reasoning doesnt vanish when the session ends.
  • Navigable past decisions and justifications are always accessible.
  • Collaborative multiple agents can share and evolve context together.

Were not giving away the full blueprint yet, but if youre interested in what lies beyond RAG, beyond Git, and beyond static memory hacks, keep watching.

The future of AI context management is closer than you think.