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Jul 2026 • Tech, System Design

Design Uber / a Ride-Hailing System - System Design

“Design Uber” sounds like a CRUD app with a map on top. A rider taps a pin, a driver shows up, money moves. The interviewer lets you believe …

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Jul 2026 • Finance

Prepay the Home Loan or Invest the Surplus? The Breakeven Math

The standard advice is a one-liner: your home loan is at 8.5%, equity returns 11-12% over the long run, so never prepay - invest the surplus …

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Jul 2026 • Tech

Spec-Driven Development - Writing the Spec Is Writing the Code Now

The most productive engineers I know stopped bragging about how fast they type. When a coding agent can produce 400 lines of correct code …

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Jun 2026 • Tech

Choosing an Embedding Model in 2026 - It's Not the Leaderboard

Most teams pick an embedding model the same way they pick a sorting algorithm: look up the benchmark, take the top result, ship it. For …

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Jun 2026 • Tech, System Design

Design a URL Shortener (TinyURL) - System Design

Everyone thinks the URL shortener is a trivial problem. “It’s a hash map. Store long URL, return short URL, done.” Then the interviewer …

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Jun 2026 • Tech, System Design

Design Twitter's News Feed - System Design

The Twitter timeline looks trivial until you say the numbers out loud. “Show me a list of tweets from people I follow, newest first.” It is …

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Jun 2026 • Tech, System Design

Design WhatsApp / a Chat Messaging System - System Design

A chat app sounds like the easiest system you will ever build. “User A sends a message, user B receives it.” One INSERT, one SELECT. The …

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Jun 2026 • Finance

The Real Rupee Cost of a 1% Expense Ratio Over 25 Years

A 1% expense ratio sounds harmless. It is less than what Zomato charges in delivery fees, less than a bank locker’s annual rent. Surely it …

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Jun 2026 • Tech

Multi-Agent Systems - When Splitting the Work Actually Helps

The instinct when a task is complex is to throw more agents at it. Spin up a researcher, a writer, a critic, a planner - a whole crew. It …

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Jun 2026 • Tech

Observability for LLM Apps - You Can't Fix What You Can't Trace

When your web service throws a 500, you have a stack trace. When your LLM app returns a bad answer, the status code is 200, the latency …

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Jun 2026 • Finance

What a ₹10,000 SIP Became in Every 10-Year Window Since 2005

“Nifty 50 SIP has historically returned 12-15% over 10 years.” You will see this claim in every mutual fund advertisement. It is not wrong, …

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Jun 2026 • Tech

Semantic Caching - The Cheapest 40% Off Your LLM Bill

The cheapest optimization most teams skip is not routing to smaller models or trimming the context window. It is not calling the model at …

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Jun 2026 • Tech

Structured Outputs - Stop Parsing LLM JSON by Hand

If you have a regex somewhere that strips markdown fences to pull JSON out of an LLM response, you have a time bomb. It works 95% of the …

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Jun 2026 • Tech

Context Engineering - The Discipline That Replaced Prompt Engineering

The question engineers ask most often when an LLM pipeline underperforms is: “how should I reword this prompt?” That is almost never the …

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Jun 2026 • Tech

Small Language Models Are Eating the Easy 80%

Most production AI costs are paid to frontier models for tasks that a 3-billion-parameter model running locally could handle just as well. …

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Jun 2026 • Tech

Diffusion LLMs - The Text Models That Don't Predict Left to Right

Every LLM you have used in production generates text the same way: one token at a time, left to right, each token depending on everything …

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Jun 2026 • Tech

What 'Thinking' Actually Costs - Reasoning Models and Test-Time Compute

When you enable extended thinking on Claude or switch to an o-series model, the price per request jumps 3 to 10x. That is not because you …

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Jun 2026 • Tech

Your AI Agent Is a Security Hole - Prompt Injection in 2026

Most engineers building agents spend time worrying about hallucinations. The more immediate risk is that your agent will faithfully execute …

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Jun 2026 • Tech

You're Shipping AI Features Blind - Eval-Driven Development in 2026

The dirty secret of most AI product teams in 2026: when someone asks “how do you know the new prompt is better?” the honest answer is “we …

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Jun 2026 • Tech

How AI Agents Actually Remember - Memory Architectures in 2026

Ask anyone building agents what their biggest problem is and “memory” comes up within the first two sentences. The agent solved the bug …

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