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The AI Builder’s Notebook - Systems & Intelligence

Anuja Gaunekar

Daily insights on AI engineering, architecture, and system design.

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Why Nobody Talks About This Uncomfortable Truth About AI and Jobs

Everywhere you look. LinkedIn. Medium. Twitter.

AI is being marketed as the ultimate job disruptor.

Scroll for five minutes and you will see dramatic posts predicting the end of developers, the extinction of roles, and a future where robo...

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Designing APIs for AI

We used to design APIs for deterministic clients.
Now our fastest growing client might be an LLM that forgets context, retries aggressively, reasons in loops, and pays per token.

The API did not get slower. The caller did.
The API did...

5 months ago
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Scaling to 1 Million Users Without Losing Your Mind

If you have ever shipped an app that suddenly starts getting real traffic, you know this feeling.

Everything works. Until it doesn’t.

One day your metrics look “normal.” Next day, you are staring at timeouts, database CPU spikes, and a su...

6 months ago
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How to Design a RAG System That Doesn’t Hallucinate

Before We Start — A Quick Check-In

Tell me honestly:

Have you ever seen your model give a super-confident answer that was completely wrong?
If yes, you’re in the right place.

Let’s fix that together.

1. What RAG Really Does (A...

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Architect Systems for High-Traffic, High-Revenue Workloads

Ensure Database Availability and Resilience When Zones or Entire Regions Fail

  • Automatic failover inside the same region

  • Asynchronous backups to another region

  • Multi-AZ + global replication

  • Global tables for multi-...

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