Hi, 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 the wider world, it means misreading the forces that move markets, institutions, and people. Then, 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.

Working Memory

TL;DR: What I learn building AI that holds up in production, written down while it's fresh.

I build production AI systems: agents, the evaluation that keeps them honest, and the data and platform layers they run on. Working Memory is where I write down what that work teaches me: from the job, from the courses and certifications I take, and from what I build on my own time.

I cover agentic design patterns, orchestration, tooling, evaluation, and the decisions that separate demos from production; including when an agent should run on its own and when a human belongs in the loop.

I build from the data layer up. In production, AI fails where its data fails (context, state, schemas, evals) so that's where I look first.

If you build with AI and want to know what holds up once it's real, this is for you.

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

Undercurrents

TL;DR: The forces that shape the world. One book at a time.

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, behavioral economics, institutions, civilizational history, systems thinking, persuasion, human performance, philosophy: the books that explain the forces quietly moving markets, nations, and people.

Each essay takes one of those forces — outside us, like incentives, institutions, and feedback loops, or inside us, like biases, habits, and the ideas we live by — and makes it legible: what it is, how it works, and where you can see it at work, now or in the past. Understand the forces, and better decisions tend to follow.

I share what I understand; what you conclude from it is entirely yours.

If you want to see why the world works the way it does, this is for you.

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

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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