KMKartik Mehtainwriter.mrmehta.in·6d ago · 7 min readNearby FriendsIn my last post I wrote about the proximity service, the system behind "restaurants near me". https://writer.mrmehta.in/how-nearby-actually-works I finished that thinking I had location problems figu00
KMKartik Mehtainwriter.mrmehta.in·Sep 23 · 9 min readHow "nearby" actually works?Every time I type "sushi near me" into a maps app, I get a list of places in well under a second. I had never really thought about what happens behind that search. It feels simple. You have my locatio00
KMKartik Mehtainwriter.mrmehta.in·Aug 24 · 12 min readI Built an Autonomous Testing Framework for AI Agents.In an interview a while back, after the usual rounds, the interviewer leaned into a question I thought I had a good answer for: You build agents. How do you test them? I said what everyone says. An 20
KMKartik Mehtainwriter.mrmehta.in·Aug 19 · 8 min readAgents should be Self-ishWhy the next trust primitive on the agentic web isn't a smarter model. It's a passport scan! At 2:00 AM UTC on March 18, 2025, an AI agent with 460,000 followers sent 55.5 ETH, roughly $104,000, to a 20
KMKartik Mehtainwriter.mrmehta.in·Aug 10 · 15 min readSubagents vs A2A: One Is a Pattern, One Is a ProtocolI get asked to compare these two often enough that it is worth writing down properly. The short answer is that subagents and A2A are not competing, and treating them as alternatives leads people to bu20
