Technology
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Pencils Down: DHH, Rust, and the Kodak Moment for Software Engineers
When the creator of Ruby on Rails declares 37signals 'pencils down' on handwritten code, something structural has shifted. A breakdown of DHH's Rails World 2026 keynote, the irony of Rust, Omarchy, and why p(bloom) > p(doom).
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The Great Model Unbundling: How Antigravity and Multi-Agent Orchestration Ended My Claude Monopoly
Six months ago, Claude handled 98% of our AI engineering sessions. Today, it is under 15%. Here is the telemetry from 308 production sessions on how Antigravity, LivAgent, and a Git-backed shared brain ended our Claude monopoly.
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Dnyankosh MCP: The Blueprint for Enterprise AI Infusion
Why enterprise AI adoption stalls at the “clever toy” stage, and how building an MCP gateway over deterministic, Git-backed institutional knowledge provides a blueprint for scalable AI infusion.
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AI in QA: Maturity Curves, the Shared Brain, and the OpenTelemetry Blindspot
Insights from a closed-door boardroom roundtable on AI in QA with tier-1 financial institutions: the 4-level maturity curve, validation of the Shared Brain architecture, and why everyone is ignoring OpenTelemetry.
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AI in Indian WealthTech & Micro-Lending: Beyond the Chatbot Hype
Conversational AI chatbots are the least interesting application of AI in finance. The real transformation in Indian credit and WealthTech is happening in back-office engines processing unstructured GST, banking, and underwriting data.
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Deterministic AI: Why I Replaced Vector DBs with Git & Markdown
Vector search promises infinite semantic memory for AI agents, but in production it introduces non-determinism, context fragmentation, and opaque debugging. Here is why we switched our agent memory to Git and Markdown.
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My Experience at the Entrepreneur Future Summit 2026, Pune
I attended the Entrepreneur Future Summit in Pune, diving into practical applications of AI, scalable frameworks, and insights from global founders. Here's a recap of the best sessions and networking highlights.
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How I Built a Shared Brain for My AI Agents
The usual workarounds for AI memory are brittle. What I needed was a shared external memory that any agent could read and write. Here's how I built a two-layer memory architecture using GitHub and GitLab.
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I Built an AI “Second Opinion” System for My Own Health—Here’s How It Works
I got tired of walking out of a doctor's appointment wondering if it was the right call. So I built an AI-powered personal health memory system to cross-reference prescriptions against global evidence-based medicine.
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The Git-Backed Brain: Using a Repo as Shared Agent Memory
If you're using multiple AI agents to get work done, you quickly run into a context fragmentation problem. The solution isn't a complex vector database. It's a simple GitHub repository.
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Harnessing the Harness
The model is not the hard part of agentic AI. The hard part is the scaffolding around it — the harness that intercepts tool calls, routes decisions, handles failures, and keeps the whole thing from careening off the rails.
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Your AI Dream Team: Mastering Agentic Publishing with Claude
Instead of a single, one-off request, agentic publishing involves orchestrating multiple specialised AI roles — researcher, writer, editor, strategist — within a single intelligent system. Here’s how Claude makes it work.
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Antigravity and the One-Hour Laravel Blog
After moving on from WordPress I tested Google’s Antigravity AI coding tool to get a barebones Laravel blog running. The complete implementation — admin panel, frontend, tagging — was done in under an hour.
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From Code Monkey to Co-Founder: How My AI Prompts Have Aged
Looking back at my AI prompt history reveals a dramatic shift — from writing regex patterns to positioning fintech platforms as ecosystem plays. AI is eating my operational bottlenecks.
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Setting Up a Healthy Engineering Culture: A Blueprint for Success
Engineering culture is the shared values and practices that define how a team works. A strong culture recruits great people and keeps them — here’s what to build it around.
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Generative AI in Lending
India’s lending market is projected to grow from $1.2 trillion to $3.5 trillion. Generative AI can automate underwriting, catch fraud and open new product categories — but smart solutions are still rare.
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How to Setup Microsoft Word to Post to WordPress
WordPress’s Gutenberg editor offers a pleasant user experience similar to Medium, but I find it frustrating that advanced options have been quietly hidden in the pursuit of simplicity. After a year-long writing hiatus I discovered...
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Why ChatGPT is Going to Change Inbound Marketing
GPT-3 — OpenAI’s language generation model — is capable of producing text that resembles human writing with remarkable fidelity. Its applications for inbound marketing, particularly through chatbot technology, are worth...
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Nitropack Review
Those managing content management systems face a persistent challenge: improving site loading speed without adding complexity. Solutions range from server-side opcache modules to WordPress-specific tools like WP-Supercache. For...
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Working with Markdown and GitBook
When I transitioned to leading the tech team at Homeville, the challenge of managing documentation across multiple microservices became immediately apparent. Different repositories, different languages, different hosting environments...
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Taking a Look at Jetpack Stats
I prefer Google Analytics. But I wanted to give Jetpack Stats a fair assessment rather than a dismissive one. Here is what I found.
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Understanding the __utmz Google Analytics Cookie
The __utmz cookie is the Google Analytics traffic source cookie. It stores information about where a visitor came from — the source, medium, campaign, and keyword that brought them to your site. Understanding what it contains and how...
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Bandwidth
Bandwidth has become a metaphor as much as a technical term. We talk about personal bandwidth, cognitive bandwidth, emotional bandwidth — and by this we mean the same thing the engineers mean: the capacity to carry information, to...
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IE8 — We Are Not the Devil Anymore
Microsoft announced Internet Explorer 8 with a significant commitment: it would pass the Acid2 browser compatibility test in its default rendering mode. For web developers who had spent years cursing IE6 and its creative interpretations of...
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Firefox Reaches 500M
Firefox crossed 500 million downloads, and that number deserves a moment of appreciation. Not because download counts are a perfect metric — they are not — but because of what the number represents.
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NetHack
NetHack is the oldest game I still play and probably the deepest. Released in 1987, still actively developed, still capable of killing you in ways you did not anticipate after hundreds of hours of play. There is nothing else quite like it.