PinnedInmotive-engbyBalasubramani Mani·Apr 24, 2025How did Motive achieve an important performance milestone by optimizing the Frontend for…This blog post goes beyond the typical frontend optimization techniques like CDNs, image optimization, and minification, which are already…
Balasubramani Mani·May 12The Basics of AI Agents: How They Actually Do Work On Your BehalfProject 7 of 12 — I built a small tool-use demo to see what’s really happening when an AI agent picks the right tool, breaks a problem into…
Balasubramani Mani·May 5Your AI Has No Memory — Here’s How to Give It OneI’m an Engineer with 12 years of experience. I’ve been using ChatGPT and Claude almost every day. And until this project, I assumed when it…A response icon1A response icon1
Balasubramani Mani·Apr 28I Searched for “Caching” — and the Word Never Appeared Once in the ResultsI’m an Engineer with 12 years of experience. In Project 4, I built a knowledge bot that could answer questions from my own documents. In…
Balasubramani Mani·Apr 21I Built 4 AI Projects This Year.I’ve been an engineer for 12 years. I use AI tools every day. And until a few months ago, I was doing it without understanding any of it.
Balasubramani Mani·Apr 14I Asked My AI a Question It Couldn’t Answer. That Was the Point.I’ve been an Engineer with 11 years of experience. In Projects 1–3, I learned how LLMs predict text, how prompts shape output, and how…
Balasubramani Mani·Apr 7I Thought the AI Was Remembering Me. It Wasn’t.I’ve been an engineer for 11 years. Project 1 showed me LLMs predict tokens, not retrieve answers. Project 2 showed me how your prompt…
Balasubramani Mani·Mar 29The Real AI Skill Isn’t Prompting — It’s Knowing Why It WorksI’m a frontend developer with 11 years of experience. In Project 1, I learned that LLMs predict the next token — one at a time, purely by…
Balasubramani Mani·Mar 23The Day LLMs Stopped Being Magic — And Got More Interesting11 years building frontends — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular. I knew how to build what users see. But what happens inside an LLM? That was…
Balasubramani Mani·Mar 1The Engineer Who Teaches Students How to Think in the AI EraLast week, I had the privilege of returning to Saveetha Engineering College— not as a student, but as a speaker and mentor.
