When Automation Forgets the Sir: Why AI Messages Go Wrong in India
Automated emails in India can offend the people you respect most. Sir, Bhaiya, Didi or Ji carry the relationship, and a template cannot guess them.
Automated emails in India can offend the people you respect most. Sir, Bhaiya, Didi or Ji carry the relationship, and a template cannot guess them.
Stepladder is a pattern for adopting AI: two teams, one contract, and a migration ladder from managed services to your own models, without touching the apps.
The honest case for open models: data control, cost shape, no lock-in, auditability, sovereignty, the real trade-offs, and when proprietary wins.
Open weights are not open source. The OSI's Open Source AI Definition, the spectrum from OLMo to Llama to closed, and why the difference matters.
The forward deployed engineer is suddenly tech's hottest role. What FDEs actually do, what is expected of them, and the technical, product and human skills the job demands, from a practitioner who does forward-deployed AI work.
Every company adopting generative AI eventually faces the same question, usually sooner than it expected: should we call a cloud AI API, or run the models ourselves? I have sat on both sides of this…