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Prescribed Enterprise AI Architectures for Small, Mid-Size, and Large Organizations

The first article in this series, Enterprise AI Adoption: Requirements for Security, Governance, and Scale, defined the problem: enterprises consume AI through coding tools, standalone hosted applications, custom agents, and enterprise knowledge systems, but need consistent controls across identity, credentials, data, cost, providers, and operations. The second article, A Reference Architecture for Governed Enterprise AI, … Continue reading Prescribed Enterprise AI Architectures for Small, Mid-Size, and Large Organizations

A Reference Architecture for Governed Enterprise AI

In the first article in this series, Enterprise AI Adoption: Requirements for Security, Governance, and Scale, we identified four ways enterprises consume AI and seven requirements that apply across them. Those requirements cover identity, non-human credentials, cost governance, security and data controls, model flexibility, optimization, and observability. This article translates those requirements into a reference … Continue reading A Reference Architecture for Governed Enterprise AI

Enterprise AI Adoption: Requirements for Security, Governance, and Scale

AI adoption inside enterprises rarely begins with a coordinated platform strategy. It usually starts with individuals and teams selecting tools that solve immediate problems. A developer subscribes to an AI coding assistant. Another team builds an application using a foundation-model API. Employees begin using standalone cloud applications such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Codex. A … Continue reading Enterprise AI Adoption: Requirements for Security, Governance, and Scale

AI Assistants Have Many Interfaces. Context Is the Real Product.

AI assistants are no longer just chat windows. The same assistant now appears as a web app, desktop app, mobile app, browser extension, IDE extension, command-line tool, local agent, and cloud worker. That is powerful, but it creates a new problem: deciding which interface to use, and keeping context alive when moving between them. This … Continue reading AI Assistants Have Many Interfaces. Context Is the Real Product.

🖥️ Running Local LLMs: Experiments and Insights

✨ Summary Large Language Models (LLMs) have powered the AI wave of the last 3–4 years. While most are closed-source, a vibrant ecosystem of open-weight and open-source models has emerged. As a long-time AI user, I wanted to peek under the hood: how do GenAI models work, and what happens when you actually run them … Continue reading 🖥️ Running Local LLMs: Experiments and Insights

AI Browsers Are Here — My Experience with Perplexity’s Comet

I have been using Perplexity’s Comet browser for the past two weeks, and it has completely changed the way I use browsers 🌐. I’ve been a Chrome user for as long as I can remember, but after trying out Comet for two weeks, I finally made it my default browser ✅. Comet functions not just … Continue reading AI Browsers Are Here — My Experience with Perplexity’s Comet

The Rise of CLI-Based AI Coding Agents: Claude code vs Gemini CLI

Introduction I have been a Cursor user for vibe coding for 3 months. I was very skeptical about using Claude Code and Gemini CLI at first, since I wasn’t comfortable with the idea of using a terminal as an AI agent. But in the last 1–2 months, I’ve been trying them both — and it … Continue reading The Rise of CLI-Based AI Coding Agents: Claude code vs Gemini CLI

🚀 A Guide for Aspiring B.Tech CS Students: Navigating Your Journey & Preparing for the Real World

👋 Introduction My daughter will be starting her B.Tech in Computer Science at MIT, Manipal this year. As a huge AI proponent, I often share the latest AI trends and tools with my family. When my daughter decided to pursue CS, she asked me several questions about AI, which inspired this blog. I hope this … Continue reading 🚀 A Guide for Aspiring B.Tech CS Students: Navigating Your Journey & Preparing for the Real World

Are Smart Glasses the Future of AI? My Hands-On Review of Meta AI Glasses

Honestly, I never believed smart glasses would become a mainstream AI form factor—until I bought the Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses two weeks ago! 😎 This gadget had been on my wishlist for a while, but it wasn’t available in India, and even if you managed to get one from abroad, the app didn’t work well … Continue reading Are Smart Glasses the Future of AI? My Hands-On Review of Meta AI Glasses

🤖 AI Customer Support using an Agentic Framework

In this blog, I’ll walk you through the design, development, and lessons learned while building a multi-agent AI customer support assistant using the LangChain framework and related AI tools. 🎮💬 🎯 Motivation: Why Build This? At KGeN, a game aggregation platform connecting publishers and gamers, our primary users are gamers and clan chiefs (micro-community leaders). … Continue reading 🤖 AI Customer Support using an Agentic Framework

🔍 Debugging Web Apps with Cursor Just Got Smarter: Evaluating Browser Assist Tools

In my previous post, I shared my experience using Vibe coding and highlighted one of the biggest challenges in that workflow: AI coding tools often lack awareness of what’s happening in the browser when you run your app. This leads to a frustrating dev loop: you’re forced to constantly copy-paste screenshots, console errors, and network … Continue reading 🔍 Debugging Web Apps with Cursor Just Got Smarter: Evaluating Browser Assist Tools

🚀 One Month with Vibe Coding: Building Real Apps with AI Assistants

Over the past few months, Vibe coding has been gaining serious traction—and I couldn’t resist diving in myself. I’ve been using AI coding assistants for a while, but I wanted to go deeper and really test what these tools can do in a realistic, end-to-end software development project. So, I spent the last month building … Continue reading 🚀 One Month with Vibe Coding: Building Real Apps with AI Assistants
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