Hi, I'm Prakash.

I'm Prakash. By day I'm a Senior AI Engineer, building production agentic AI systems and the data platforms underneath them. Off the clock I'm on a tennis court, traveling with my family, or reading about the systems and forces that quietly shape everything around us.

I run two publications because I have the same obsession in different domains.

Truer maps of reality. Better decisions.

In technology, an inaccurate map means building the wrong systems, misjudging what AI can actually own, and making architectural bets you'll pay for in 18 months. In life, it means optimizing for the wrong things, deciding from borrowed frameworks, and waking up years later living someone else's story.

Everything here is independent — my own observations, my own opinions, published openly. When the facts change, I change my mind. Treat each post as what I believe at the time, with the information I have at the time.

The AI Engineer

TL;DR — Agentic systems that do the job as well as a human would. Or better.

I design and ship systems where AI doesn't assist. It executes. Agents that own entire workflows end to end, without a human in the loop.

I cover the engineering that makes this real: agentic design patterns, orchestration, tooling, and the decisions that separate demos from production. Above all, evaluation — the part most AI engineers skip. The infrastructure that keeps an agent honest, wired into delivery so a regression can't ship.

Evals are, at bottom, a data pipeline problem — and I've spent years building data pipelines. Most AI engineers don't understand data infrastructure; most data engineers don't build AI applications. I build from the data layer up to the AI layer. That's where the highest-leverage systems get built.

If you build in AI and want to move past assistants and copilots to systems that own the work, this is for you.

Focus areas: AI Engineering · Data Engineering · Platform Engineering · Leadership & Career

The Decision Architect

TL;DR — A truer map of reality, built through systemic analysis.

I noticed as a teenager how much a low-resolution map of reality costs a person, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since.

So I read. Obsessively. Game theory, competitive dynamics, behavioral economics, civilizational history, systems thinking, habit design, communication, conflict resolution, personal philosophy. I read to make more great decisions and fewer catastrophic ones — in work, in relationships, in how I spend my time and attention.

I publish the learnings that are load-bearing. I share what I understand; what you conclude from it is entirely yours.

If you want to think with more precision and make better decisions, this is for you.

Focus areas: Grand Strategy · Economics & Society · Social Intelligence · Human Performance

Every essay is drawn from a book — at least one essay per book, more when the book earns it.

The conviction beneath both

The quality of your decisions is the quality of your life.

Working knowledge — built in public, refined in practice, published as it's earned.

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