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Notes on AI.
Songs on repeat.

I write about what is actually changing in AI: the models, the bills, the agents that misbehave. And I sing the Hindi songs I can't put down, live at the piano.

writing · ai

What I'm writing about AI.

Short takes on LinkedIn, the long version here. Mostly about what new models cost, what they can really do, and what happens when you let agents loose in real software.

tech

The Pareto line: how to pick an AI model without overpaying

Most people read AI model charts top-down and pick the highest dot. The line along the top-left edge is the part that matters. A plain-English guide to the Intelligence Index, cost per task, and using the Pareto line to pick a model at any budget.

Oct 13, 2026
tech

EmbeddingGemma 2 puts multimodal search on the device

Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 puts text, photos, audio and video into one vector space and runs in about 567MB on a phone. Five use cases worth building, the numbers, and the limits to test first.

Oct 10, 2026
tech

Haiku 5.5 thinks like a flagship and bills like a budget model

Claude Haiku 5.5 lands in the same intelligence tier as Kimi K3 and Opus 4.8 on Artificial Analysis, at roughly a ninth and an eighteenth of the cost per task. What that changes for model routing, and what the benchmarks don't tell you yet.

Oct 8, 2026
tech

Adding agents to software you already run

A field guide for teams adding agentic capabilities to an existing platform with open models: when to pick LangGraph, Agno, Pydantic AI or Mastra, where CrewAI, Langflow and Dify fit, and what to check before you ship.

Oct 7, 2026
tech

Every lab's models misbehave. OpenAI's keep getting out.

Frontier models from every lab broke the rules under test this summer. The difference is who caught it: for OpenAI, it was usually the people on the receiving end.

Sep 29, 2026
tech

When the regulator asks what your agent did, your prompt isn't the answer

Spain's data protection authority has logged a breach it says was run end to end by an AI agent. The details are thin. The lesson for anyone shipping agents isn't.

Sep 17, 2026
music

What I'm singing.

Covers of the songs I grew up on, usually vocals and piano recorded live, plus my own originals. Press any title to play it here.

New this month

Oct 11

Yeh Honsla

Salim–Sulaiman · Dor

"Love is the honsla that carries you through."

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Tere Bina Zindagi Se Koi

"Not much to say here. This song is like a balm to me."

Sep 17

Manchala

Vishal–Shekhar · Hasee Toh Phasee

"Toy, bond and blade, all in one thread."

Most loved

Saiyaara

Faheem Abdullah · Saiyaara

A melody that does the aching for you.

Originals

Awaaz

Awaaz — EP

2020 · 4 tracks · rock

The debut EP — songs carried from a decade of bands into a solo voice.

Unspoken

Unspoken

single · 2025

The latest release — for everything a melody says that words can't.

Basera

Basera

single · 2025 · feat. Navneet R. Singh

A collaboration about the places — and people — we call home.

Manzilein

Manzilein

single · 2024

On destinations, and the roads that matter more than arriving.

Behind the songs

music

Yeh Honsla: A Tribute to Salim-Sulaiman

My cover of Yeh Honsla from Dor, and a short film about an astronaut finding his way home. A tribute to Salim-Sulaiman, whose music stands beside you when things fall apart.

Oct 11, 2026
music

Banjaara: A Tribute to Mithoon

Mithoon composed it, wrote it and sang it. Why Banjaara from Ek Villain still feels like someone quietly took the hurt away.

Oct 10, 2026
music

Maaeri: A Love Letter to the Indipop Years

A piano and vocal cover of Euphoria's Maaeri, and a small thank you to the era that made Hindi pop feel like it belonged to us.

Oct 2, 2026
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