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From proof-of-concept to production
May 19, 2026, 4:03 PM IST
Shyam exclaimed, “We have completed developing an entire application in three weeks meant for the proof-of-concept. This would have taken around six months without the help of vibe coding.” That was two months ago. The…
May 19, 2026, 4:03 PM IST
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The quiet truth about data science work
May 5, 2026, 1:25 PM IST
Many times, the only truth that remains is the effort put into solving a business problem. The outcome eludes us. An honest data scientist would admit. Data science teams have struggled to attribute revenue improvements…
May 5, 2026, 1:25 PM IST
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Learning Generative AI is not the first step of learning Generative AI
April 27, 2026, 3:23 PM IST
A misconception is currently thriving in the industry that one can become a Generative AI expert without learning “traditional” machine learning. Large Language Models (LLMs) predict the next word in a sequence of words. They…
April 27, 2026, 3:23 PM IST
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AI in door-to-door sales
April 18, 2026, 2:41 PM IST
In door-to-door sales, a representative visits homes or businesses in person to promote the product or service and make a sale. This is as traditional as the sales process can go. Can AI, which is…
April 18, 2026, 2:41 PM IST
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What you prompt is what you reap
April 10, 2026, 2:25 PM IST
“I just cannot get this AI tool to give me what I am asking for. It does not seem to understand my ask in the first place.” This is a familiar-sounding tantrum we hear often…
April 10, 2026, 2:25 PM IST
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Generative AI in marketing
March 27, 2026, 12:56 PM IST
Here goes a list of use cases with an ultra-brief description of each. Brand voice management Gen AI ensures content tone and personality remain consistent across teams and platforms. It detects deviations and suggests revisions…
March 27, 2026, 12:56 PM IST
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The forward-deployed AI engineer
March 19, 2026, 4:25 PM IST
Did you say you were a data engineer? Or was it an ML expert? Or data scientist? MLOps expert? A domain expert? Sorry, AI business analyst? Think about a new type of role that is…
March 19, 2026, 4:25 PM IST
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Building trustworthy AI systems
March 12, 2026, 4:07 PM IST
If you were asked the following questions in an interview, how would you handle them? I am providing my answers today so you can build on them. Why is there a concern about trust in…
March 12, 2026, 4:07 PM IST
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Content repurposing engine
March 4, 2026, 7:03 PM IST
Creating valuable and impactful content takes time – hours of research, drafting, and polishing to produce that one well-crafted article or blog post. Yet the way we write for a blog is entirely different from…
March 4, 2026, 7:03 PM IST
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Three ways of using an LLM
February 23, 2026, 3:51 PM IST
Large Language Models (LLMs) are the industry’s closest friends. They are our best friends, even if they are seen as disruptors, making the scene volatile. They are a learner’s paradise. With the risk of oversimplifying,…
February 23, 2026, 3:51 PM IST
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Beyond code: The consultative mindset
February 16, 2026, 3:53 PM IST
Gone are the days when clients provided developers with the requirements of a solution. If we are not consultative, we are not in the game anymore. If we don’t foresee business challenges and help our…
February 16, 2026, 3:53 PM IST
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Time-LLM and the AI Chatbot
February 7, 2026, 12:24 PM IST
Time-LLM is a framework that repurposes pre-trained large language models (such as Mistral and LLaMA) for time-series forecasting tasks without requiring LLM-specific training data. It treats time-series data as a different language that needs to…
February 7, 2026, 12:24 PM IST
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The agentic AI brainstorming platform
January 30, 2026, 4:03 PM IST
Last week, I developed the agentic AI brainstorming platform, an application that lets you watch two AI personalities (Synthia and Arul) have intelligent conversations about any marketing topic you choose. Think of it as a…
January 30, 2026, 4:03 PM IST
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Marketing with Generative AI (use cases)
January 23, 2026, 9:33 PM IST
Large language models are powerful. They are omniscient and omnipresent. Technical capabilities alone are not use cases. Capabilities need to be mapped to business challenges and requirements to form a use case that is worthy…
January 23, 2026, 9:33 PM IST
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Data science roles in the industry
January 16, 2026, 4:00 PM IST
Who is a data scientist? What does he do? What steps are involved in executing an end-to-end data science project? What roles are available in the industry? Will I need to be a good coder…
January 16, 2026, 4:00 PM IST
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One-hour talk on data visualisation
January 9, 2026, 11:19 PM IST
How would you deliver an impactful one-hour talk on data visualisation? I would say dress well, speak well, and talk relevantly. Start with what visualisation means and why it is essential to represent a concept…
January 9, 2026, 11:19 PM IST
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Word embeddings in NLP
January 2, 2026, 11:13 PM IST
We will discuss word embeddings this week. Word embeddings represent a fundamental shift in natural language processing (NLP), transforming words into dense vector representations that capture semantic and syntactic meaning. Moving beyond sparse, context-agnostic methods…
January 2, 2026, 11:13 PM IST
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The Llama series of models from Meta
December 26, 2025, 4:32 PM IST
Meta’s most popular LLM series is Llama. Llama stands for Large Language Model Meta AI. They are open-source models. Llama 3 was trained with fifteen trillion tokens. It has a context window size of 8000…
December 26, 2025, 4:32 PM IST
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AI as a culture (aiaac)
December 19, 2025, 3:12 PM IST
Which parts of an organisation’s business processes and our day-to-day tasks must see the presence of AI in them? AI is not an industry vertical. It is spread across various functions of an organisation horizontally….
December 19, 2025, 3:12 PM IST
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AI in Fintech
December 12, 2025, 3:57 PM IST
Fintech is technology in finance. By “technology” today, I mean artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is revolutionising the financial landscape by enabling faster, more secure decision-making. I will explain a few use cases for AI in…
December 12, 2025, 3:57 PM IST
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