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B. Talvinder

Build Logs

Technical decisions, architectural patterns, and lessons from building real systems. What we chose, what we rejected, and why.

We Were Running AI Agents Before ‘Agentic’ Became a Buzzword

AI Engineering
Agentic Systems
Build Logs

In early 2024 we deployed a multi-agent system before the frameworks existed. Here’s what we learned — and the pattern I’m calling Agent Debt.

Mar 20, 2026

AI Is Making Your Team Slower — The Math Your CEO Won’t Show You

AI Engineering
Software Engineering
Engineering Leadership

Every company measuring AI productivity is counting the wrong thing. When you measure both sides — output volume and downstream cost — the numbers tell a different story.

Mar 18, 2026

Why LLM-as-Judge Fails in India: The $0.03 Evaluation That Costs You Customers

Agentic Systems
India Market
Product Economics

The Evaluation Cost Ratio: LLM-as-judge pricing works in US markets where ARPU is $500/month but breaks Indian edtech at ₹200/month.

Mar 5, 2026

Why We Built an Agentic Rightsizing System Instead of Using Existing FinOps Tools

Cloud
FinOps
Architecture
Zopdev

Zopdev’s Agentic Rightsizing Pattern delivers 25-35% cloud cost reduction in 90 days by replacing FinOps dashboards with autonomous action. Here’s the architecture.

Feb 10, 2025
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Archive — Technical notes from 2014–2015. Short fixes and configurations from earlier projects.

Mobile Site of WordPress Theme Not Loading?

Dec 25, 2015

Cloning an EC2 Instance

Nov 14, 2015

Git Quickstart: Notes from Taming the Beast

Nov 14, 2015

Configuring Office 365 with Mac OSX Mail App

Nov 13, 2015

Configure Subdomain for Mailgun in Digital Ocean

Jun 17, 2015

Varnish Cache 503 Guru Meditation

Mar 24, 2015

W3 Total Cache 500 Internal Server Error

Mar 4, 2015

Error 1045 in Navicat and SQLyog

Feb 12, 2015

Quickly Create an FTP Server on Your EC2 Instance

Jul 4, 2014

Perfect Development Environment for Remote Teams

Jun 1, 2014

Opening Targeted Tabs in a Bootstrap Modal Window

Mar 24, 2014
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© 2026 B. Talvinder. Built with conviction.

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B. Talvinder is a serial founder (ex-OYO, YC, 500 Startups) who has built four companies across four different technology eras in eighteen years. He writes about AI, infrastructure, and the India tech ecosystem at talvinder.com.

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