https://techsnippets.in Tech snippets, notes, and writings by Ram Kumar Hariharan. en-us (Ram Kumar Hariharan) (Ram Kumar Hariharan) Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://techsnippets.in/blog/have-and-eat-your-cake https://techsnippets.in/blog/have-and-eat-your-cake AI is a five-layer cake — energy, chips, infrastructure, models, apps — and the player who owns and optimizes every layer instead of one slice is the one who wins. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT (Ram Kumar Hariharan) aistrategymarketsinfrastructure https://techsnippets.in/blog/the-meter-is-running https://techsnippets.in/blog/the-meter-is-running Engineers have always managed some scarce resource, and the newest one is the AI token budget, so the next edge is not knowing how to use these tools but knowing what they cost. Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT (Ram Kumar Hariharan) aisoftware-engineeringtokensproductivity https://techsnippets.in/blog/go-big-or-go-small https://techsnippets.in/blog/go-big-or-go-small A small model can copy a big one's answers and ace every test, which is why the question was never who scores highest but who actually has the understanding. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT (Ram Kumar Hariharan) aimodelsopen-sourcestrategy https://techsnippets.in/blog/done-isnt-the-goal https://techsnippets.in/blog/done-isnt-the-goal Goals drift under you, so your work is only worth what it does for the current goal — keep checking your aim, and drop even near-finished projects the org no longer needs. Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT (Ram Kumar Hariharan) leadershipmanagementproductivitystrategy https://techsnippets.in/blog/managing-org-churn https://techsnippets.in/blog/managing-org-churn You can't control layoffs, reorgs, or ambiguity — so control the three things that are actually yours: Effort, Attitude, and Response. Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT (Ram Kumar Hariharan) leadershipcareermanagementresilience https://techsnippets.in/blog/vertical-or-horizontal-orgs https://techsnippets.in/blog/vertical-or-horizontal-orgs Vertical orgs win on speed to market and horizontal orgs win on long-term leverage, so the right structure is mostly a question of what stage your product is in. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT (Ram Kumar Hariharan) leadershiporg designmanagementscaling https://techsnippets.in/blog/hyperscalers-silicon-and-scarcity https://techsnippets.in/blog/hyperscalers-silicon-and-scarcity The world's most valuable companies have always mirrored whatever the economy treats as scarce, and right now that's AI compute, which is why the chip and memory makers are climbing the leaderboard. Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT (Ram Kumar Hariharan) aimarketsinvestingsemiconductors https://techsnippets.in/blog/software-engineers-or-tokens https://techsnippets.in/blog/software-engineers-or-tokens The scarce resource in software has shifted from human hours to tokens, and the engineers who learn to spend them well will out-ship the ones who don't. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT (Ram Kumar Hariharan) aisoftware engineeringproductivitycareer