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Notes from the build.

Engineering and product writing about how ClaimFarm works, what we measure, and what we've learned shipping AI agents into the insurance loop.

Product6 min2026-06-22

Why photo-first claims work for smallholder farmers

A photo carries more reliable evidence than a paper form filled in by a third party. Here's the data on intake completion when you collapse the form to a single image.

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Engineering11 min2026-06-18

Benchmarking Qwen-VL-Max on a 200-photo crop-damage eval set

We labeled 200 Wikimedia + Kaggle photos across 8 crops and 6 damage causes and put Qwen-VL-Max head-to-head with GPT-4V and Gemini 1.5 Pro. Numbers inside.

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Engineering8 min2026-06-12

How we catch images downloaded from stock libraries

Five layers of fraud detection, including a Qwen-VL prompt that names visible watermarks back to the adjuster.

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DevOps10 min2026-06-05

Deploying a Python + WeasyPrint app on Alibaba Function Compute 3.0

What worked, what didn't (looking at you, cross-account WhatsApp media URLs), and the Dockerfile that finally cold-started cleanly.

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