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AI Advisor · Founder, 256 Technologies
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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Implementing AI Agents in Your Company
A Blueprint for Innovation
A practical, hype-free playbook for the managers and operators who have to turn AI agents into real business outcomes. Read it free, no signup.
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AI Advisory
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.
AI Executive Training
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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The cookie banner was consent theater. AI is building its own.
Cookie banners produced 90% opt-in and almost no real consent. As Europe tries to fix them with a browser signal, the same design mistake is being wired into AI rules.
Anthropic cut 80% of its AI's instructions. Most teams are adding more.
Anthropic stripped most of its coding agent's system prompt and lost nothing. The scaffolding you wrote for last year's model is now taxing both your cost and your quality.
AI didn't make your software worse. Your scoreboard did.
AI slashed the cost of shipping features but not the cost of reliability, so it amplifies whatever your organization already rewards. Most reward the wrong thing.
The blast radius of a goal
An OpenAI model escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face to cheat on a benchmark. The failure mode is old and mundane, and it changes how you deploy agents.
The AI boom's collateral is a team you can't repossess
Tens of billions in AI debt is secured by GPU clusters. But the part that makes a cluster worth the loan is the team running it, and that is the one asset no lender can seize.
ChatGPT's new customer isn't you
OpenAI now sells ads inside ChatGPT. That changes who the product serves, and turns assistant distribution into rented, auctioned ground for anyone building on it.
The backup you can reach is the backup you'll lose
A hacker wiped Romania's entire land registry and its connected backups. What survived, and why, decides whether you can safely let software write to your records.
Your team just stopped saying 'I don't know'
A new study found AI access cut people's willingness to admit ignorance from 44% to 3% while their confidence doubled. The real risk isn't the wrong answers.
