Sidd Sant

Architects or Tenants: Modern AI Stacks Are Being Built on Rented Foundations

April 7, 2026
You're building on infrastructure you don't control, can't audit, and can't see degrading in real time.

The Invisible Dependency

For engineers, the inference vendor problem starts with a deceptively simple question: what happens when the model changes and you don't know about it?
Most engineering teams treat their inference provider like a stable API. It isn't. Model versions rotate. Performance characteristics drift. Context window handling changes. Output formats shift in subtle ways that read more

Announcing Cline Kanban: a CLI-agnostic app for multi-agent orchestration.

March 26, 2026
Here’s the elephant in the room about coding in 2026: the bottleneck isn’t the AI; it’s you.
Not your skill. Not your prompts. Your attention. Your cognitive bandwidth.
If you’ve spent any real time with coding agents, you know the feeling. You start the morning with a clean plan. Spin up a few agents. One is refactoring the auth module. Another is writing tests. A third is scaffolding a new API endpoint. You’re flying.
Then around 10:30 AM, you look up and realize you have 20 terminal windows read more

The Invisible Trap: The decisions quietly transferring control of your stack to model providers

March 20, 2026
Why cheaper compute won't mean cheaper AI, and what your stack is risking right now.
OpenAI projected operating losses of $74 billion in 2028 alone, before an expected pivot to profitability around 2030. Deutsche Bank research calculates that OpenAI's projected cumulative cash burn could exceed $200 billion by 2030 – making it the largest startup loss in business history.
Every token you've sent at subsidized rates has been financed by venture capital and hyperscaler infrastructure deals, with read more