PKPuneet Khandelwalinthecitizenschronicle.hashnode.dev·1h ago · 2 min readWhen Compliance Rewrites Your TopologyWhen a routine database migration forces you to rewrite your routing logic based on the physical latitude of the client, your architecture has stopped serving users and started serving legislators. We00
PKPuneet Khandelwalinai-kluex.hashnode.dev·19h ago · 3 min readVector Databases Are Mostly Over-Engineered Search WasteEvery SaaS team with a half-baked chatbot is spinning up managed vector clusters. They pay enterprise rates to store embeddings that easily fit into a single server memory footprint. The industry fell00
PKPuneet Khandelwalinai-kluex.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 3 min readStop Fine-Tuning Open Source ModelsFine-tuning an open source model has become the default reaction for engineering teams hitting accuracy ceilings with base weights. You spend cycles curating a dataset, spinning up instances, and burn00
PKPuneet Khandelwalinthecitizenschronicle.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 2 min readWhen Municipal Infrastructure Becomes an Open APIMunicipalities expose physical infrastructure through standard web protocols now. Traffic lights, water pumps, and power substations run on REST endpoints and websocket feeds. Urban planning is just s00
PKPuneet Khandelwalinai-kluex.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 2 min readStop fine-tuning open-source models on garbage data pipelinesEvery week, a team drops considerable engineering cycles into fine-tuning the latest open-source weight release, only to watch their model hallucinate syntax, ignore system prompts, and fail basic reg00