Essays

Long-form writing. Field notes from the work.

• 16 May 2026 The operating loop Running Codex inside a government-adjacent workflow. The boring middle of AI adoption is what makes the model usable.
• 13 May 2026 India AI is a decision-intelligence problem Why the serious India AI opportunity is not another demo layer, but AI systems that make government, energy, and public decision-making more legible.
• 23 April 2026 Make the system legible Why the through-line between explainers, MCP tools, and intelligence dashboards is legibility: building command surfaces for systems people need to understand and act on.
• 22 April 2026 The configuration layer Why the valuable Indian AI work over the next three years is not building frontier models but wrapping the ones that exist for the institutions and principals who will not build that wrapper themselves.
• 21 April 2026 Nine layers between electrons and tokens A map of the AI compute stack, pulled apart one layer at a time, with failure modes drawn in. Interactive version.