Writing
Notes from the pipeline.
Build logs and field notes on AI video, retrieval, agents and the systems behind my work — what broke, and what I'd do again.
- Rocky & Hardev: Every Prompt Behind Two AI Pahadi Superstars Two AI characters from Manali and four reels, made in one day for $30.29 of generation. Every prompt, reference image, setting, cost and mistake, open-sourced so you can make your own.
- Fifteen Years of Government PDFs Told Me the Same Thing Fifteen Times I built retrieval over fifteen years of Himachal Pradesh Economic Surveys. Pure vector search picked the right year 30% of the time — and that was the least surprising thing I found.
- I Turned My Portfolio Into an MCP Server My website now answers to agents as well as browsers. Building it took an afternoon — and it immediately caught my own data telling two different stories about the same project.
- Building a Terminal-Themed Portfolio How I built a terminal-themed portfolio website using Astro, complete with ASCII art, particle effects, and a hidden admin dashboard.