https://a3ro.dev a3ro.dev — portfolio and field notes of Akshat Kushwaha: Co-founder & CTO at Bits&Bytes, Advisory Board at Boardy, building AI systems, low-latency retrieval architectures, and developer communities that scale without permission. en-us Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:46:32 GMT https://a3ro.dev/blog/architecting-motherboard https://a3ro.dev/blog/architecting-motherboard architecting motherboard: polymorphic iam, forensic digital signatures, and operations at teen-builder scale when you run an independent builder network across a dozen Indian cities with hundreds of teenage hackers, off-the-shelf SaaS tools Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/why-luna-needs-to-exist https://a3ro.dev/blog/why-luna-needs-to-exist why luna needs to exist: adaptive math, memory, and the problem with pink calendar apps most cycle tracking apps on your phone are insulting. they fall into two categories, and both of them are built on deeply patronizing assumptions about Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/architecting-lexana-at-nanis-house https://a3ro.dev/blog/architecting-lexana-at-nanis-house architecting lexana at my nani's house: 4-agent swarms, 60% semantic cache hits, and sub-200ms p95 latency in the summer of 2025, i spent nearly two months at my nani's place in Prayagraj. there was no broadband connection. there was no erg Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/why-we-need-hybridmind https://a3ro.dev/blog/why-we-need-hybridmind why we need hybridmind: vector search is blind, graphs are brittle, and AI memory needs local ground truth if you ask most engineers how they handle long-term memory for an AI agent, they will tell you: > "we embed the conversation history Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/autonomous-ai-eval-cli https://a3ro.dev/blog/autonomous-ai-eval-cli inside an autonomous hackathon screening agent India Innovates 2026 had roughly 3,000 submissions, each usually a PDF or PPTX link, and a shortlist deadline. the system needed to classify the file, render it, infer the relevant problem stat Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:07:58 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/beautiful-enough-to-build https://a3ro.dev/blog/beautiful-enough-to-build beautiful enough to build some ideas make you keep returning to them after the excitement has worn off. not because they are guaranteed to work, but because the world feels a little more complete if they do. that is what i think beauty can Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:26:31 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/context-engineering-consistent-art-without-training https://a3ro.dev/blog/context-engineering-consistent-art-without-training context engineering, or: how i got consistent art without training a model the first few generated panels were good enough to make me optimistic and inconsistent enough to make that optimism useless. the character changed shape. the style d Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:20:49 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/the-machine-that-thinks-but-doesn't-feel https://a3ro.dev/blog/the-machine-that-thinks-but-doesn't-feel the machine that thinks but doesn't feel i spend a lot of time building with systems that can write, reason through a bug, and occasionally surprise me. the surprising part is not that they sound human. it is that they can be useful without Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:11:54 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/reality-vs-delusion https://a3ro.dev/blog/reality-vs-delusion how to pressure-test a belief certainty has a similar feeling whether it is earned or not. that is the uncomfortable bit. feeling sure is not evidence that you are right. this is not a guide to diagnosing yourself or anyone else. if a belie Sun, 31 May 2026 20:47:14 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/btech-fake-dreams-life https://a3ro.dev/blog/btech-fake-dreams-life on b.tech, safety, and choosing a life you can own engineering is a good path for some people. the problem starts when it becomes the answer before anyone has had time to ask the question. in a lot of families, a b.tech degree carries a pro Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:56:44 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/adulting-in-india https://a3ro.dev/blog/adulting-in-india on adulting in india the strange part of growing up in india is that you can be given a very detailed script for twenty years and then be expected to improvise the rest. study hard. choose the safe option. respect your family. make them pro Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:51:36 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/agentic-ai-wave https://a3ro.dev/blog/agentic-ai-wave agentic ai is getting useful. that makes the boundaries matter more. the word “agentic” is now attached to almost every AI product. sometimes it means a model can use tools and retry a task. sometimes it mostly means there is a chat box wit Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:46:56 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/love-a-feeling-i-wish-to-never-experience-ever-again https://a3ro.dev/blog/love-a-feeling-i-wish-to-never-experience-ever-again love, after it stops feeling safe i wrote before about finding someone who feels like home. i meant it when i wrote it. i also know now that a sentence can be true for one version of you and impossible for the next. loss has a way of making Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:15:28 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/finding-someone-who-feels-like-home https://a3ro.dev/blog/finding-someone-who-feels-like-home on having a good partner after a day that has taken more than it gave, a good relationship can be surprisingly ordinary: a call, a stupid meme, a message asking whether you ate. the important part is not that another person fixes your mood. Tue, 29 Apr 2025 04:21:23 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/burnout-bullshit-being-human https://a3ro.dev/blog/burnout-bullshit-being-human burnout, comparison, and doing work you can return to some days the code editor feels heavier than it should. not because the problem is impossible, but because you opened the internet first and now somebody else's launch, job offer, or twe Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:14:05 GMT Akshat Kushwaha https://a3ro.dev/blog/learning-to-code-vibe-era https://a3ro.dev/blog/learning-to-code-vibe-era so you're thinking of learning to code? the first useful thing i ever made with code was small enough to be embarrassing. it saved me from doing the same boring task by hand again. that was enough. i understood, for the first time, that a c Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:28:28 GMT Akshat Kushwaha