About Shekhar Bhardwaj

I am an engineering leader working at the intersection of software architecture, AI systems, and product thinking. My focus is building trustworthy agentic systems — systems that can act, explain, verify, and leave behind a clean audit trail.

I write about how engineers actually work with AI: the honesty cost of AI-assisted engineering, comprehension debt, agentic workflows, and engineering culture in the AI era. I coined terms like FONA (Fear of Not AI-sking) and the signature, and wrote the free book How to Use AI Without Lying to Yourself.