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Someone says something. How do you know it's true?A five step method to examine what someone tells you, with one worksheet you fill in as you go.
AI is a serious threat to product companies. The right MCP server strategy is your defence.Every product company is shipping an MCP server. A tools/list makes the model the intelligence. A server that answers intent keeps that intelligence yours.
MCP: Industry is moving towards tool search. I think the MCP server that owns the product should own the decision.Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft and MCP are all fixing tool discovery with better search. Inside a product I think the server should answer the intent instead.
India should automate the jobs it is best atA working argument for why protecting India’s strongest white collar sectors from AI may be the wrong development strategy.Why AI is an opportunity for IndiaA deeper look at how AI can accelerate India’s development through talent, productivity and new opportunities.
Choosing TTS for a real time AI call is not a beauty contestA builder note on why voice quality, latency, controllability and failure behaviour must be judged together.
Consistency beats intelligenceWhy I think the tortoise is misunderstood: it is not slow, it simply keeps moving in a direction.
OMG: outcome, milestones, groundworkA simple way to keep activity from masquerading as progress.AI changes what a software company can charge forA working builder note on why AI agents make outcome pricing more natural than seat pricing in some workflows.