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    <description>Essays on building software that actually ships — AI in production, technical leadership through ambiguity, mobile-first architecture, and lessons learned across eight years of healthcare, IoT, and startup engineering.</description>
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      <title>Everyone has agents now. Almost nobody can operate them.</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Building an agent takes an afternoon in 2026. Running one you can trust — observability, evals, cost ceilings, blast radius — is the part nobody&apos;s framework solved.</description>
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      <title>What HIPAA actually means for your mobile architecture</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>HIPAA never tells you what to build — it tells you what your data can never do. Treat it as an architecture input on day one, or pay for the rebuild later.</description>
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      <title>The hidden cost of the wrong stack (lessons from the bootstrapped side)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>When runway is the product, a stack choice is a financial decision wearing a technical costume. The real costs never show up in the framework comparison.</description>
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      <title>Leading a team through ambiguity without slowing down</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Ambiguity isn&apos;t the exception in early-stage work — it&apos;s the default. Here&apos;s how to keep moving without pretending you know more than you do.</description>
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      <title>Making AI actually useful in production</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What changes when an LLM has to be reliable, observable, and on-call at 3am — not just impressive in a demo.</description>
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      <title>AI incident response automation: an agent swarm that investigates before you wake</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A swarm of AI agents that begins investigating production incidents the moment an alert fires — cutting response times ~30% at Hinge Health.</description>
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      <title>Coordinating a 100-family wedding in real time — the Mangalam platform</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A full-stack app that coordinated wedding planning across 100+ families with real-time updates, RSVPs, and a live event feed.</description>
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      <title>Self-drive car rentals without the friction — building Carvar</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A self-drive car rental platform in Bangalore built around affordability, ease of use, and automation — from booking to return.</description>
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