Architecture Tradeoffs Across the Agentic SpectrumOriginally published on nvarma.com I've been missing a couple of weekends now as I was working towards this post, but life gets busy. This was a fun experiment and a lot of learning. The age of abundance Elon Musk has been predicting an age of abund...May 10 · 10 min readnavinvarma.hashnode.dev
We've Been Here Before: Leading Engineers Through the AI WaveOriginally published on nvarma.com These are my personal thoughts, experiences, and opinions, and they do not reflect the views of the company I work for. Last month I was reading a Hacker News thread about a blog post called "We might all be AI eng...Apr 13 · 15 min readnavinvarma.hashnode.dev
How to Build Free Local AI with Ollama for Small Businesses in March 2026Originally published on nvarma.com My wife is a freelancer looking to start her own home lifestyle business. She'd been using the free tier of ChatGPT to help with things like summarizing research and drafting emails, and kept hitting the limits. "C...Mar 16 · 12 min readnavinvarma.hashnode.dev
Building Radar: A Google Sheets Hack for My Link FeedOriginally published on nvarma.com I'd just finished setting up a newsletter with Kit and tried webmentions (p.s. it was a waste of time, no backlinks showed up). I was thinking about what would actually make this site more useful for anyone who vis...Mar 7 · 5 min readnavinvarma.hashnode.dev
How I Structure My Thinking in 2026: Learning New Things, Spec Driven Development for Responsible AIOriginally published on nvarma.com The cherry plum tree in my backyard, as we go into the first week of spring 2026. Every year it starts from bare branches and turns into this. It felt like a fitting image for where I am right now — new skills blo...Mar 1 · 9 min readnavinvarma.hashnode.dev