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Field notes on building with AI Practical AI advice for founders and engineering leaders
What to check, what it costs and what to do next, whether you're adopting AI or growing an engineering team. Written for founders, CTOs and engineering managers in India.
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High-Volume Resume Screening Is Broken: Why LLM-Driven Parsing Fails and How to Fix It
Rules for the must-haves, semantic matching for the rest, and a recruiter on every decision. With real costs and a build estimate.
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When NOT to Use an LLM: Replacing $0.05 API Calls with $0.00 Algorithms
Summaries, validation, routing and calculations: where ordinary code beats a language model, and what the API version would cost you each month.
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The Hidden Cost of AI Pilots: Why Most Enterprise GenAI Projects Stall After the Demo
What a pilot skips and production charges for: data cleanup, DPDP review, edge cases, running costs. With a go or stop checklist.
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Scaling from 5 to 100 Engineers Without Breaking Production: System Design Principles
Draw teams before services, give every role one job, and measure delivery rather than activity. From growing a team past a hundred.
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Decide What NOT to Build: The Strategic Framework Behind Lean Tech Stack Design
Most of the value is in what gets cut. A five-step order for deciding what enters the engineering queue, with a ranking you can copy.
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Refactoring Live Systems: Supporting ₹1,000+ Crore in Business Without Downtime
No big-bang rewrites. Three techniques for changing a live system safely, which one to use when, and how to test whether you're ready.
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Human-in-the-Loop Automation: Designing AI Workflows That Staff Actually Trust
Sort work by risk, show the reason behind each decision, and make overriding easy. How to automate without losing your team's trust.
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Beyond the Chatbot: Building Autonomous AI Agents for Enterprise Workflows
Chatbot, workflow or agent: which to build, how to give an agent tools through MCP, and the permissions it should never have alone.
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Measuring AI ROI: 4 Metrics That Matter (And 3 Vanity Metrics to Ignore)
Four business numbers that prove AI is working, three that only look impressive, and how to set a baseline before you launch.
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How to Audit Your Tech Stack for AI Readiness Before Spending a Rupee on APIs
A practical five-layer audit, a scoring framework and a real cost comparison, so you know whether your stack is ready before you pay for a single API call.
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