Rakesh KothariEssays on AI, software engineering, and building companies.https://rakeshkothari.com/enSometimes the Fastest Way to Ship Is to Tell AI Lesshttps://rakeshkothari.com/essays/tell-ai-less/https://rakeshkothari.com/essays/tell-ai-less/I gave Claude the full vision for our Arena platform before writing a single line of code. It designed the final product. I was trying to ship an MVP. That mismatch cost weeks.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTContext Engineering Is the Real Skillhttps://rakeshkothari.com/essays/context-engineering/https://rakeshkothari.com/essays/context-engineering/AI is bringing back documentation — not for humans, but for agents. The teams moving fastest aren't the ones with the biggest context windows. They're the ones with the best memory systems.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Has an Enterprise Architecture Biashttps://rakeshkothari.com/essays/ai-enterprise-architecture-bias/https://rakeshkothari.com/essays/ai-enterprise-architecture-bias/AI suggests a separate Python backend for 500 internal users with the same confidence it uses to recommend database-level security for sensitive data. Engineering experience helps you tell the difference.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT