https://darshankheni.vercel.app Essays on AI engineering, agents, distributed systems, and shipping production software. By Darshan Kheni. en-us All rights reserved 2026, Darshan Kheni darshan.kheni01@gmail.com (Darshan Kheni) darshan.kheni01@gmail.com (Darshan Kheni) Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:38:26 GMT Next.js https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/context-is-the-new-compute https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/context-is-the-new-compute in march 2026 anthropic shipped a 1 million token window at standard pricing and inference costs collapsed 240x in 18 months. compute is cheap. context is expensive. here's the discipline that actually separates production agents from demos in 2026. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:00:08 GMT darshan.kheni01@gmail.com (Darshan Kheni) https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/the-25-percent-agent https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/the-25-percent-agent a public benchmark ran a 6-task crm agent flow 10 times and hit 25% end-to-end success. meanwhile 57% of orgs claim agents in production. that gap is the most important engineering problem in 2026. here's how i design for the reliability we actually measure. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:00:07 GMT darshan.kheni01@gmail.com (Darshan Kheni) https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/the-code-that-outlasts-you https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/the-code-that-outlasts-you stewardship is the engineering virtue nobody budgets for. but the thing that actually outlasts you isn't the code, it's the constraints, the names, the data model, and the 'why' doc. and the best act of stewardship is usually deletion. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:00:06 GMT darshan.kheni01@gmail.com (Darshan Kheni) https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/what-i-delegate-to-ai https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/what-i-delegate-to-ai ai writes code 10x faster than you do, but you read code at the same speed. here's how i actually work with agents on production systems: what i delegate, what i keep, the verification scaffolding that makes ai useful, and the dumb mistakes that cost me real time. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:00:05 GMT darshan.kheni01@gmail.com (Darshan Kheni) https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/shipping-is-the-easy-part https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/shipping-is-the-easy-part every engineer celebrates the launch and dies in the maintenance. here's the playbook i use to ship features i can actually live with: the runbook test, the maintenance multiplier, the second-day features, and how to write code for the version of you who has to debug it at 2am. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:00:04 GMT darshan.kheni01@gmail.com (Darshan Kheni) https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/the-wild-20 https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/the-wild-20 the boring 80% is about discipline. the 20% is about taste. here's how i decide which non-obvious features to ship, when to bet against best practices, and what the wild calls in regent taught me about earning the right to take risks. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:00:03 GMT darshan.kheni01@gmail.com (Darshan Kheni) https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/the-boring-80 https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/the-boring-80 most engineering 'foundation' advice is fluff. here's the tactical playbook i use to build production ai systems without over-engineering: what to instrument first, the contracts that prevent 90% of bugs, the 30-minute rule, and how to know when foundations are a trap. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:00:02 GMT darshan.kheni01@gmail.com (Darshan Kheni) https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/building-regent https://darshankheni.vercel.app/blog/building-regent how i built a production-grade saas that replaces human executive assistants with 3-stage ai email pipelines, RAG memory injection, multi-model routing, and 4-tier stripe billing. Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:00:01 GMT darshan.kheni01@gmail.com (Darshan Kheni)