Every developer who has built for the Indian market knows this problem: our addresses break geocoders. “Near Lajpat Nagar Metro, behind Central Market, gali no 4, Delhi” is crystal clear…
In February, I attended the India AI Impact Summit in Delhi. Three days of policy talks, vendor pitches, and a lot of conversation about whether Indian AI companies could compete…
I spent the last ten months as the lead engineer on a multi-tenant booking SaaS. Node.js, Mongoose, MongoDB Atlas, deployed on Cloud Run. The product is live with real tenants…
A working developer’s decision framework — six weeks after release. TL;DR Support Timeline (the only table that matters) Version PHP Released Bug fixes until Security until 11 8.2–8.4 Mar 12,…
A Laravel queue job retried three times last week. OpenAI charged us for all three calls. The user only ever saw one response. Took me a minute to figure out…
TL;DR — We built a RAG system over 109 podcast episodes (1.6 million words, mostly Hinglish). The first embedding model we tried, a popular English-first one, returned nonsense for queries…
I’ve been writing code for over 8 years. Laravel, PHP, Flask, Node.js, Python, MySQL — the full stack. I’ve built healthcare recruitment platforms, warehouse management systems, e-commerce portals, and job…
Introduction Most RAG tutorials show you how to chunk a clean English PDF. Real production data is never that simple. When I built Raj Brain — a search system over…
80% of AI projects fail before production. The problem isn’t your AI model — it’s the architecture decisions you made before you ever called the API. The $547 Billion Problem…
Most RAG tutorials end at “paste these 10 lines and you’re done.” Then you try it on real data and everything breaks. This isn’t that kind of tutorial. I built…
