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    <description>Mithun Das is a builder — two decades of shipping software into production; lately, Agentic SDLC platforms, AI governance, and AI-native products, inside the enterprise and on his own. Essays on agentic engineering, AI in production, and leadership.</description>
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      <title>How LLM Evals Cut My Model Cost by 88% and Raised Accuracy</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>AI in production</category>
      <description>A promptfoo eval of 6 models, 99 test cases and 3 runs, and why the &quot;budget&quot; model wasn't cheap.</description>
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      <title>From Vibe Coding to Executable Contracts: The 4 Levels of AI Developer Maturity</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Enterprises are buying AI tools and tokens and expecting 10x throughput. What's missing is training — and a clear picture of the four levels teams move through on the way to spec-driven, agentic engineering.</description>
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      <title>Beyond the Spec: How PMs and Engineers Must Cross-Skill in the Age of Agentic Dev</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Building Production-Grade AI Agents on AWS</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How I am Running Multiple LLMs on a Single H100 — Challenges and Resolution</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Silent Failure: Lessons From Serving a Vision LLM in Production</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Protecting Coaching Culture in the Age of AI</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Leadership &amp; culture</category>
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      <title>Think in Systems, Not Solutions</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Worst Career Advice I Keep Hearing: “Make Yourself Indispensable”</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Live beyond your title</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Career</category>
      <description>Professional identity can easily become tightly linked to our titles. Here is how to build an identity broad enough to withstand transition — rooted in curiosity, values, and purpose.</description>
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      <title>Building a Scalable End-to-End Image Classification Pipeline on AWS</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>AI in production</category>
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      <title>AI-First Doesn’t Mean AI-Must</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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