Notes on The AGI Chronicles

01 Nov 2026 | book, ai-ml

Kevin Roose's The AGI Chronicles is an OpenAI people story, thin on the business and the technology. From an Advaitic view, an LLM is not conscious until a seer outlasts the machine.

The Cost of AI Productivity

20 Oct 2026 | ai-ml, productivity, organizations, thinking

Three doubts about the claim that AI frees people for higher-value work. Saved time often is not redeployed, constant focus may crowd out new ideas, and teams lose a single authoritative record.

Building AI Agents with Pydantic AI - A Hands-On Tutorial

09 Oct 2026 | ai-ml, ai-agents, pydantic-ai, python, mcp

Twelve runnable Python scripts that build a Pydantic AI agent one feature at a time - a local LLM, web search, custom tools, MCP, Logfire tracing, a FastAPI endpoint and prompt routing.

Cheap Tokens, Expensive Answers - Why Open vs Frontier Is the Wrong Question

01 Oct 2026 | ai-ml, llm, gen-ai, open-weight, routing, tco

Price cuts from frontier labs have changed the total cost of ownership math. Sometimes frontier models are cheaper than Open Models. The real answer is intelligence routing.

Beyond the Vibes - A More Disciplined Approach to Building AI Agents

30 Aug 2026 | ai-ml, llm, gen-ai, open-weight, china

Building an AI agent is easy. Building one you can trust with revenue, security, or production operations requires a very different approach.

Beyond the FUD - A More Balanced View of Chinese AI Models

30 Jun 2026 | ai-ml, llm, gen-ai, open-weight, china

A balanced look at the leading Chinese open-weight AI models, why they generate so much fear and hype, and how they compare with Western open-weight alternatives on capability, cost, and trust.

LLMs and Frontiers of Consciousness

25 Apr 2026 | ai-ml, consciousness, llm, thinking

Re-evaluating Chalmers' 2023 framework for AI consciousness in light of 2026's agentic systems, with a Vedantic lens on what consciousness really means.

Vibe Coding a Python Library

27 Feb 2026 | ai-ml, AgenticAI, Cursor, pypi

I used vibe coding to build and publish a fully working Python SDK for Cloudinary's people search feature. From code generation to pypi—in about 4 hours using Cursor.