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Week of April 17, 2026
AI Is Making Your Team Slower — The Math Your CEO Won't Show You
Build Logs
Every company measuring AI productivity is counting the wrong thing. They're measuring output volume — PRs merged, lines written, tickets closed. They're not measuring the cost of what ships: the review burden, the debugging time, the incidents caused by code nobody understood before it hit...
We Were Running AI Agents Before 'Agentic' Became a Buzzword
Build Logs
In early 2024, we deployed a multi-agent system for Ostronaut that used a team of specialized agents to generate training content. No one called it "agentic AI" yet. We called it "the pipeline." By late 2024, every vendor deck had "agentic" in the title. The architecture didn't change. The...
The Small Model Arbitrage: Why India Should Be Building Vertical LLMs, Not Chasing Frontier
Frameworks
India is trying to build its own GPT-4. This is a mistake.
Trace-Based Assurance: The Governance Layer Agentware Actually Needs
Frameworks
Agents are being deployed with governance frameworks designed for human committees and quarterly audits. The gap is not small.
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