Notes from the build. Usually about something that took too long to figure out.https://shashi-budati.github.io/https://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/rust-ai-era/https://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/rust-ai-era/AI removes the implementation bottleneck. What remains is verification, and Rust's compiler has always been built for that.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/arc42-ai-era-documentation/https://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/arc42-ai-era-documentation/AI-generated context files hurt more than they help. The fix is using arc42 as a structure and the LLM as an interviewer.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/engineering-quality-ai-skill/https://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/engineering-quality-ai-skill/A Claude Code skill that walks a structured engineering quality checklist, generates a status report, and tracks gaps iteratively.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/dev-tools-going-headless/https://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/dev-tools-going-headless/IDE plugins are being replaced by AI skills. The tooling is following the agent.Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/ai-agents-101-glossary/https://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/ai-agents-101-glossary/Plain definitions for the terms you keep seeing - agent, loop, memory, skills - without the hype.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/financial-data-model-contract/https://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/financial-data-model-contract/Schema decisions that feel small when building a PFM or investment analytics product - and become rebuilds when you get them wrong.Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/cheap-verification-signal/https://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/cheap-verification-signal/The reason AI works where it works and fails where it fails maps almost exactly onto whether the domain has cheap verification. This is the hidden variable - not model size, not architecture.Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/parser-generators-for-structured-parsing/https://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/parser-generators-for-structured-parsing/For constrained-format data like SMS alerts, regex breaks down and LLMs are overkill. Parser generators give you 40x the throughput, exact outputs, and logic you can actually debug.Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/mlops-platform-choice-by-team-function/https://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/mlops-platform-choice-by-team-function/The right MLOps platform question isn't which platform is best - it's which team function is your actual bottleneck.Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/stop-saving-csvs-to-s3/https://shashi-budati.github.io/blog/stop-saving-csvs-to-s3/CSV is a clipboard, not a storage format. Here's why data science teams should switch to Parquet - and how row groups make large-file processing on S3 actually work.Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT