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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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Acting as your fractional Head of AI: strategy, feasibility, ROI modeling, vendor assessment, and roadmaps grounded in real engineering constraints. No hype, no vendor lock-in.
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A six-week program that builds an AI-native leadership team: hands-on executive workflows, governance and risk, and a 90-day adoption roadmap that moves leaders from watching to leading.
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Tangible code beats theoretical roadmaps. I build the smallest prototype that answers the key technical and business questions, across agents, computer vision, and ML, before you commit to a full build.
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When the regulator becomes your product manager
Every new car in Europe now ships an eye-tracking AI model no buyer chose. How that feature is failing is a preview of what happens when AI gets mandated onto a product.
Your model was never your moat
Open-weight models now match frontier quality at a fifth of the cost. For anyone building on AI, that shifts where durable advantage has to come from.
The Autonomy Budget: Deploying AI Agents Before They're Reliable
Meta is spending $145B on AI yet says agents have stalled. The real limit is compounding math, and it decides which workflows you can safely hand to an agent today.
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.
