How One Engineer Stopped Guessing and Shipped RAG to Production with Weave CLI

Published on 29.04.2026

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How One Engineer Stopped Guessing and Shipped RAG to Production

TLDR: Michael Maximilien, former IBM Distinguished Engineer and now CEO of ClawMax.ai, built Weave CLI to solve a problem he kept running into: RAG systems that demo beautifully but collapse in production. The tool unifies 11 vector databases behind a single interface, with first-class observability via Opik built in from the start, so every configuration change is measured rather than guessed.

How One Engineer Escaped RAG's POC Purgatory