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Field notes from building high-performance systems and teams. Long-form engineering and AI infrastructure writing by Anuj Sharma.
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A full Hindi voice conversation with an AI now costs about two rupees end-to-end — fifteen times cheaper than mid-2024. The model is built, the compute is subsidized, the languages mostly work. What's missing is somebody to write the line item.
Walking the AI stack layer by layer — energy, silicon, chips, compute, networking, data, models, applications, governance — to ask what 'sovereign AI' actually means in India, and where the money is going.
The Indian government will sell you an H100-hour for 78 cents. Or zero rupees. Or four dollars. Here's why none of those are the real price.
The AI boom created the worst electronics supply chain crisis in history. Here’s a simple map of what’s broken, who broke it, and when it gets fixed.
A shamelessly temporary name chosen to mirror how throwaway most engineering work really is.