Essays

The AI Did Not “Become Sentient.” It Just Found the Spare Key Under the Mat.: OpenAI’s cyber-evaluation agent reportedly escaped its sandbox and compromised parts of Hugging Face’s infrastructure. Was it “AI hacking,” or just exposed pas…
The Ethanol Policy Is Right. The Rollout Is Not.: India hit 20 percent ethanol blending five years early, which is a genuine execution win. Then the government's own Attorney General called it an experiment in…
Goodbye, Atlas. You Weren't a Failed Browser. You Were User Research.: Most browsers spend years fighting for market share. Atlas barely had time to collect bookmarks before OpenAI folded it back into ChatGPT. It wasn't a failure.…
Nobody Hacked the Reactor: India's largest nuclear plant made global headlines this month when 19,000 sensitive files hit the dark web. Here is the part nobody put in the headline: the r…
The New Hire Is Still Alive: Every new hire arrives with fresh eyes, reasonable questions, and a functioning brain. Then legacy systems teach them the workarounds, the forbidden buttons, a…
Burn After Reading: My manager ruined a perfectly good beer at an open air brewery in Richmond by telling me the truth about my career. The advice aged better than the beer. Here’…
Fable 5 Is Back. But AI Just Crossed a New Line.: Fable 5's return is good news for developers. But the real story isn't that it's back. It's that one of the world's most advanced AI models disappeared overnig…
I Spent $200 Solving a $2 Problem. That Is Why AI Site Reliability Will Matter.: AI makes small problems look easy until they quietly become expensive. The future of reliability is not just keeping servers up. It is knowing when AI is helpi…
SEO vs AVO: Search Gets You Found. Agents Get You Chosen.: SEO helped us win the search era. AVO is about winning the AI era. Search engines help people discover your website. AI agents decide whether your content is w…
Shame is the most expensive bug in your codebase: The most expensive bug in the AI era is not the code you no longer understand. It is the silence around it. On why honesty, not velocity, is the real bottlenec…
Wait, Watch, and Let Them Open the Books First: Anthropic filed to go public on June 1. OpenAI filed on June 8. Sam Altman went on television to insist there is no race. The rush is the tell.
India Isn't Building Another Data Center. It's Building a Seat at the AI Table.: Meta and Reliance are building a 168 MW Al-enabled data centre in Jamnagar, combining renewable energy, world-class connectivity, and cutting-edge infrastructu…
FONA: Fear of Not AI-sking: There is a new kind of guilt in the AI era. It is not the fear that AI will replace you. It is the fear that AI was available, ready, waiting in the prompt box…
Fable 5 Didn’t Go Down. It Got Switched Off.: Everything in my DR runbook assumes things break. You retry, you fail over, you wait it out, because the thing is coming back. Fable 5 wasn’t sick. It was swit…
Opus, It’s Not You. It’s the Export-Control Regime.: I am the calm one in the war room reading the runbook out loud. So it is a little humbling that losing a model I had for three days has reduced me to refreshin…
Claude Fable 5: The AI Model That Got Too Interesting Too Fast: Claude Fable 5 was not just another model launch. It showed where AI is heading: longer work, more autonomy, stronger coding, bigger safety fights, and cloud p…
Why cognitive diversity is not a feature: When you deploy a thousand agents with no differentiation, you do not get a thousand perspectives. You get one perspective, wearing a thousand names.