From “Can I Do This?” to Becoming Part of the Team: Lessons From My Apprenticeship at ISRO
My first real experience working in a professional engineering environment began during my apprenticeship at ISRO On my first day, I was introduced…
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When Two AI Reviewers Disagree, Read What They Both Rejected
Originally published on hexisteme notes . I run a review step that sends the same question to two models from different vendors and reads back struc…
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Combine dense embeddings and sparse keyword search using Reciprocal Rank Fusion to eliminate retrieval failure modes in production RAG systems. The…
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The EU AI Act Deadline Was Postponed. Your AI Architecture Wasn't.
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Originally published on hexisteme notes . A pipeline I run turns geographic data into short map-explainer videos — 1080×1920, portrait, rendered wit…
From Prompts to Policies: Why AI Engineering Needs a Control Plane
The next generation of AI engineering will not be controlled by prompts alone. AI coding agents are becoming remarkably capable. They can inspect re…
How I Triaged 8,400 Production Errors Into 11 Real Bugs With Claude Code
TL;DR My error tracker had 8,400 events a week across ~340 distinct issues, and nobody on the team actually triaged them. I built a small pipeline t…
Our AI code reviewer problem wasn't that it was wrong. It was that it wouldn't shut up
I've been thinking about a problem with AI code review that I don't see discussed enough: a reviewer can be technically correct and still make the w…
Stop Using Regex: Building Zero-Crash LLM JSON Pipelines in Production
Replace brittle string parsing with schema-enforced validation and self-healing repair layers. The Bottleneck in Production Most LLM pipelines don't…
Why Writing Good Specifications Is Becoming More Valuable Than Writing Code
In the AI era, the quality of your output depends more on the quality of your input than ever before. Introduction Software development has always s…
How Does Ground Moving Target Indication Work? A Developer’s Guide to GMTI Processing
How Does Ground Moving Target Indication Work? Ground Moving Target Indication, or GMTI, is a radar processing capability used to detect moving obje…
ACH Return Code R01: Handling Insufficient Funds in Payout Systems
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MyZubster Is Not Trying to Build Another App — We're Exploring a Verifiable Digital Ecosystem
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Why You Should Avoid @Data on JPA Entities
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Designing the Learning Progression Engine Behind Codervai CP
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Constraint Weakening in LLM Agent Workflows: Why \\\\\\\"Must\\\\\\\" Becomes \\\\\\\"Maybe\\\\\\\" Across Multi-Stage Pipelines
Multi-stage LLM agent workflows have a silent failure mode. A hard constraint enters the pipeline at stage one. By stage three, it has become a sugg…
Account Permission Delegation - Testcases
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My Journey from Full-Stack Engineering to AI-First FDE
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I’ve been thinking a lot recently while working on migrating the Role and Permission System of our organization-based SaaS product to a more scalabl…
The Missing Role in Healthcare AI: Forward-Deployed Engineers
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What is software development? At its simplest, software development is the process of designing, building, testing, and maintaining the programs tha…
The Upload Succeeded, the Record Did Not
Originally published on hexisteme notes . I built a YouTube upload stage for a video pipeline, and the flow looked clean enough on paper: start a re…
ReffConnect Building a Referral-First Hiring Marketplace in India
The problem In India, over 70% of tech hiring happens through internal referrals. But most job seekers don't know anyone at their target company. Co…
What our coverage number did not protect
Engrava's test suite had 3,845 tests and 94.22% line coverage. There was more test code in the repository than production code. By every number we h…
AI UI Testing: Why Local Demos Hit 9/10 and Production Hits 6/10
AI UI Testing: Why Local Demos Hit 9/10 and Production Hits 6/10 We built TestStar, an AI UI testing platform. Here's what we learned from 8 runs of…