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Hitesh
Sarda
I help leadership teams cut through AI hype and make evidence-based decisions: what is feasible, what the ROI really is, and the smallest pilot that proves it. 25+ years building production systems, including work at Citi, Virtusa, Yash, and ValueLabs. Today I run 256 Technologies, an applied AI lab in Hyderabad, and I have been writing here since 2009.
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The vulnerability Google won't call a bug
A researcher found a way to leak private YouTube data through a comment. Google says it's not a security bug. That answer is more revealing than the exploit.
Connect first, argue about ownership later
South Africa delayed Starlink for years to protect an ownership principle. Ontario built a rural internet plan on Starlink, then had to cancel it. Both got the sequence backwards.
The Internet Doesn't Need a Second YouTube
A small open-source video platform shipped a major release this week, and the online reaction split into 'nice tech, doomed to fail' versus something more interesting. The argument reveals how badly we've let one company define what a successful video platform even looks like.
The AI web just got a toll booth, and Cloudflare owns it
Cloudflare's new Monetization Gateway lets sites charge AI agents per request. The mechanism might finally solve micropayments, but the same old question follows: who ends up owning the meter.
The take-home exam is over
A professor at Brown denounced mass AI cheating on a take-home exam. The outrage landed on the students. The design problem deserves more attention.
Local models stopped being toys
Qwen 3.6 27B is running at 30 tokens per second on consumer hardware and doing real development work. That shifts the question from whether local AI is viable to when it is the right call.
The Money Myths Your Favourite Finfluencer Keeps Repeating
Almost every viral money take is built on one of four simple mix-ups: a total confused with a yearly rate, the headline number confused with earnings, how tax slabs work, and a multiple confused with a real return. Here's how to spot all four.
The fintech engineering rules that actually hold
A fintech engineering handbook is making the rounds, and the debate around it is more instructive than the document itself: three principles survive every context, and organizations still break them anyway.
