# KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md
## METADATA
Author: Vibhor Mani Choudhary
Topic: AI Strategy, Systems Engineering, Future Tech
### LATEST_THOUGHTS
1. **Why your AI POC will fail (and how to fix it)** (Dec 01, 2025)
- Insight: Lack of "boring" infrastructure kills innovation labs.
- Link: [blog/ai-poc-failure.html](blog/agent_ai-poc-failure.html)
2. **The "Sovereign Compute" Thesis** (Oct 10, 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** (Nov 28, 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** (Sep 15, 2025)
- Insight: Adapting CERN's particle physics models (Markov Chains) for fraud detection.
- Link: [blog/anomaly-detection.html](blog/agent_anomaly-detection.html)
5. **Zero-to-One: Streaming Data at Scale** (Aug 20, 2025)
- Insight: Operational nightmares of stateful Kafka clusters.
- Link: [blog/streaming-scale.html](blog/agent_streaming-scale.html)
6. **Real-time ML Serving** (Jul 05, 2025)
- Insight: Low-latency inference (<50ms) before it was cool. - Link:
[blog/ml-serving.html](blog/agent_ml-serving.html)
## LATEST (2026-08-19)
- [The Deployment Decade](blog/deployment-decade.html): installation phase is ending, deployment is where the value moves.
- [Your AI transformation is not blocked on the model](blog/transformation-bottleneck.html): data contract and decision rights are the real constraints.
- [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.