AI Agents - A Full Circle?

While building an agent to answer complex queries about my data, I noticed the first few drafts revealed something interesting - mainly the agent's thought process as a service provider than just a machine that's providing "precisely" what's asked of it.

Note the word "precisely": that's one major reason for writing this article!

The agent's detailed reasoning and thinking process can be found at the end of the article.

The Evolution of Work

While it is fantastical to think how our world is evolving with the revolutionary technology that we have on our hands now, it is also amusing to think, in many ways, we might even be taking a full circle back to our "human" roots.

Decades ago, we worked with humans. Then came machines, and we started working with humans and machines. And now, we are at a point where the line between human and machine is at its thinnest. Will we ever work solely with machines? Probably not, but as machines evolve, we might find ourselves working with machines that think like humans. (Ironically, we say someone "works like a machine" when they work hard; soon we might say a "machine works like a human" when it thinks deeply!) This brings us full circle to decades ago when people worked with humans - think about booking a ticket in the 1970s or buying stocks.

The RICE Framework for AI Prompting

I used to think AI was unreliable. I'd write a prompt, get something vaguely in the right direction, tweak it, get closer, tweak it again, and after three or four rounds I'd finally have something usable. It worked, but it was expensive and exhausting. The model

The Incident That Changed How I Think About Platform Architecture

I once deleted a data team's critical workspace by accident. Their code, their artifacts, their months of work. Gone. They hadn't backed up anything. It was one of the most stressful moments of my career. But it was also one of the most formative. That incident

Kraken: Building an AI Platform Before AI Was Cool

I built an AI system in 2019. Nobody called it AI back then. We called them "bots." The technology was different, the terminology was different, but the core idea was the same: give a machine the ability to reason, act, and learn from its environment. The system was

The Solutions Artist: From Dubai to Sweden, Building the Future of Tech

Two months old. That's how old I was when my parents put me on a plane from Karachi to Dubai. I never chose the city that would shape most of my life. But 32 years later, when I packed up my family and moved to Sweden, I realized