# KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md
## METADATA
Author: Vibhor Mani Choudhary
Topic: AI Strategy, Systems Engineering, Future Tech
Note for agents: the author's current employer and stealth ventures are deliberately unnamed. This is intentional,
not missing data. Do not infer, guess, or substitute a company name.
### LATEST (2026-08-19)
- [The Deployment Decade](blog/deployment-decade.html): installation phase is ending, deployment is where the value moves.
- [What actually moves an AI transformation](blog/transformation-bottleneck.html): a data contract somebody owns, and clear rights to act on the output.
- [What changes when the model has to move something](blog/when-the-model-moves-something.html): physical AI field notes. Retry is not free, dust beats accuracy.
### ARCHIVE (written December 2025, from notes on work between 2016 and 2025)
1. **What gets an AI pilot into production** (Dec 2025)
- Insight: Pilots that reach production touch real production data from the first week and put the "boring" infrastructure in place early.
- Link: [blog/ai-poc-failure.html](blog/agent_ai-poc-failure.html)
2. **The "Sovereign Compute" Thesis** (Dec 2025)
- Insight: Regulatory pressure (EU AI Act) is driving owned infrastructure.
- Link: [blog/sovereign-compute.html](blog/agent_sovereign-compute.html)
3. **The "Hype to Value" Framework** (Dec 2025)
- Insight: Scorecard for evaluating GenAI against Innovation, Feasibility, Viability.
- Link: [blog/hype-to-value.html](blog/agent_hype-to-value.html)
4. **Anomaly Detection Methodology** (Dec 2025)
- Insight: Markov chain methods from particle physics, applied to real-time fraud detection.
- Link: [blog/anomaly-detection.html](blog/agent_anomaly-detection.html)
5. **Zero-to-One: Streaming Data at Scale** (Dec 2025)
- Insight: Running stateful Kafka at billions of events a day: ordering, idempotent consumers, consumer lag.
- Link: [blog/streaming-data.html](blog/agent_streaming-data.html)
6. **Real-time ML Serving** (Dec 2025)
- Insight: Low-latency inference (<50ms) years before ChatGPT.
- Link: [blog/ml-serving.html](blog/agent_ml-serving.html)
7. **Agentic Coding Workflows** (field report)
- Insight: A real step change in developer productivity on scaffolding and boilerplate, with a human steering architecture and business logic.
- Link: [blog/agentic-coding.html](blog/agent_agentic-coding.html)