Many people commented that they liked my comic illustrations and asked how I create them. Here is my

This week, I learned: Kamakoti: "Entry (to the course) is relatively easy but the exit is

I'm a fan of the Code Mode approach - ie letting agents run code rather than narrow functions.

On 16 July, my auditor sent me a draft Indian tax return: a refund of Rs 3 lakhs. I gave ChatGPT my

This week, I learned: I continue to be amazed at how efficient video codecs are compared with

It's amazing to watch the cost of intelligence falling. In Nov 2023, we had college-junior level

As agents get smarter, and when we asking questions outside our expertise, it's pretty hard to

Agents are increasingly the consumers of things that used to be made for humans: Docs are

I track the cost vs capability of LLMs at LLM Pricing - the rough cost to read all Harry Potters (~1M

Bring AI to where people already work: email Lots of companies are putting AI into their chat

This week, I learned: Thinking traces vanished in ChatGPT Work (or did they never exist) and seem to

This week, I learned: Writing is slightly, but only slightly, better than typing (for adult learning.

One of my goals this year is to publish 2 books. One got published. Sort of. Data Science for

At The Curzon Hotel, my key card didn't work. But every time I went to the reception, they'd

In 2007, I extracted the first arc of the Tracer Bullet strips. I didn't realize I never shared

I had Claude Code with Fable create a small scrollytelling map for my 14-minute walk experience at

This week, I learned: How to become an applied AI engineer is a concise, well-written, and

Here's roughly what I said in my When Data is for Agents workshop for Fifth Elephant on 7 Jul

A fourteen-minute walk took me over an hour. Scroll inside the map below, or open it full-screen. I

Last week at VizChitra, I ran a "Dialogue" session. A new format for me. I usually speak 80

After Arvind Satyanarayan's talk at VizChitra 2026, a group of us kept talking about machine

This week, I learned: ⭐ How to teach so people learn better. Make them do > Show > Tell.

For thirty years, we cleaned data for humans. Now, agents are reading it. What do we do differently?

This week, I learned: Every Substack feed has an RSS feed at https://your.substack.com/feed .

Sukumar Rajagopal shared a LinkedIn post about our meeting on 11 June at Chennai, saying: Had a

Karthik Sashidhar shared his AI-generated Bangalore weather blog, which is generated by Hermes

In this age of AI psychosis, I think we have all been blessed with Calvin's prayer. Calvin: Know

Yesterday, I wrote about @syu-toutousai, the bounty-hunting agent ecosystem. That led me to

Yesterday, I submitted a Codex co-authored PR to fix an issue I raised (using ChatGPT and Z3 - so

On Sat 4 July at Bangalore, Arvind Satyanarayan is speaking at VizChitra 2026 - a talk I'm keenly