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A Short Lesson in Simpler Prompts
How I went from 300-word prompts that barely worked to 15-word prompts that worked quite well.
Srihari Sriraman
Fight context rot with context observability
I built a tool that pulls apart LLM context into meaningful components that you can see, measure, and then meaningfully engineer.
Srihari Sriraman
Artisanal shims for the bitter lesson age
Have you priced in the bitter lesson in your AI application's architecture?
Atharva Raykar

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What are popular AI coding benchmarks actually measuring?
Popular benchmarks are narrower than you'd want.
Atharva Raykar

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The common sense unit of work
Consider refactoring the unit of work that your team operates on.
Srihari Sriraman
The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management
The craft of AI-assisted software creation is substantially about correctly managing units of work.
Atharva Raykar

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My Quarterly System Health Check-in
An operational exercise for engineering leaders.
Srihari Sriraman
Why Does AI Feel So Different?
More about the recursive paradigm shifting paradigm shift.
Srihari Sriraman
How I keep up with AI progress
A curation of quality sources to keep up with AI progress.
Atharva Raykar

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AI-assisted coding for teams that can't get away with vibes
A playbook for building high-quality software with AI.
Atharva Raykar

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Experimenting with Self-Hosted LLMs for Text-to-SQL
Yogi pits local and frontier LLMs against each other to see how they fare on Text-to-SQL tasks.
Yogiraj Hendre

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