RAG isn't a search problem — it's a chunking problem

RAG pipelines fail for a reason most teams never investigate: the chunks are structurally broken. Here's how to diagnose the actual failure mode before changing anything else.

India's DPDP Act is not GDPR with a different flag — and SaaS companies are about to learn that the hard way

India's Account Aggregator network: what builders need to know in 2026

India's Account Aggregator network now covers 2.88 billion financial accounts. But 62% of borrowers still can't complete an AA-based data fetch. Here is how the framework works, and what that gap means for how you build.

The EU AI Act's moving deadline: what the Digital Omnibus actually changes — and what it doesn't

The Digital Omnibus provisional agreement defers high-risk AI obligations to December 2027. But it is not yet law — and until it is, August 2026 remains the enforceable date. Here is how to plan for both.

The AI tax on your SaaS renewal: what the new pricing models actually cost you

Major SaaS vendors are bundling AI into base subscriptions to justify 10-40% price increases. Here is what procurement teams need to know before their next renewal.

Webhooks in production: the delivery guarantees your integration is probably not honouring

At-least-once delivery is a guarantee, not a bug. Most webhook receivers in production are missing idempotency, dead-letter queues, or reconciliation. Here is the full checklist.

What your first 50 B2B customers actually teach you — and four things they get wrong

The first 50 B2B customers feel like proof. They're paying, engaged, and generous with feedback. But the sample is systematically biased in ways that will cost you if you optimize for it.

The take-home assignment was always broken. AI just made it obvious.

When Anthropic ran their take-home assignment through Claude and it passed, the team kept making it harder — until the test no longer resembled real work. That conclusion reveals something that was always true.

Technical debt is a useful shorthand. It's also why nothing gets fixed.

The 'technical debt backlog' meeting that goes nowhere is a vocabulary failure. Most things engineers call technical debt are four distinct problems — and fixing any of them starts with naming the right one.

Indian enterprise procurement has four stages. Stage two is where most SaaS deals die.

Indian enterprise SaaS deals fail in pilot limbo more often than at any other stage. Here are the four internal stages of Indian enterprise procurement, and where each one breaks.

Prompt caching in production: why the hit rate depends on prompt structure, not the API setting

Prompt caching keys on the leading token prefix. One dynamic field early in the prompt invalidates the cache for everything after it. Here is what that means for how you structure production prompts.

Feature flags in production: the lifecycle teams skip

Most teams have a system for adding feature flags. Almost none have a system for retiring them. Here is the full lifecycle: flag types, staleness detection, and the cleanup playbook.