Kartik's blog

SDD and BMAD aren’t rival products — they’re two harnesses around the same probabilistic parrot: SDD writes intent as a living, verifiable contract, while BMAD routes work through personas and phases.

Humans naturally tend to humanize things.

BMAD brings software development discipline to AI agents through a structured, role-based workflow that replaces ad hoc prompting with specialized personas and artifact-driven planning.Its key innovations are agentic planning and context-engineered develo…

The core thesis here is that the model stays probabilistic, so the surrounding system must be engineered.

As AI agents move from answering questions to taking actions, they become privileged components within modern systems—introducing new security challenges that cannot be ignored.

The Problem Statement: The Model Doesn’t Know What We Know.

An agent is not a new form of intelligence.

The single most important mental model to understand LLMs is “A Stochastic Parrot”.

I just conquered a sugarcane-squeezer of a Salesforce migration—crushing a 5-month timeline down to less than 3 months!

Friday morning I wake up, not having to drive in to work to comply with a bloviated RTO mandate.

A simple application architecture goes a long way.

Kubernetes - Greek for helmsman, is a technology that has taken the devops world by storm.

In the bleak early morning hour of 3:10 am on 30-June-2021, Joe Nash unleashed what would be the biggest faux-product to come out of AWS

The best laid plans of mice and men go awry.

The 40th anniversary of “The story of Mel” just passed.

My first foray, my first job, how I got my first job.

I talk about my internship the technical lessons I learnt.

The first in the series walks you through what the start of my journey in software engineering looked like.

Humankind’s achievements are attained standing on the shoulder of giants.

NodeJS is a monstrosity, a Mordor of architectural pitfalls, the plastic of programming languages — ubiquitous, toxic, and sadly here to stay.

If I had a dollar for every time a sorting/b-tree/binary-search question is asked in a Software Engineering interview, I will retire and buy Michael Dell’s Kona property.

How do organizations reward people?