---
title: "Field notes"
url: "https://jaainil.com/articles"
description: "Technical articles, DevOps pipelines, Linux guides, homelab tutorials, and systems engineering analysis by Jainil Prajapati."
---

# Field notes

Everything I've written up: Linux deep dives, DevOps pipelines, homelab guides and architecture analysis. 32 notes and counting.

AllaiengineeringIoTLinuxOpinionspoliticalProgrammingtech

Search articles

[ai Does India Hate Gemini? Google Can Give It Away, But It Still Has a ChatGPT Problem Google is pushing Gemini hard in India with Jio bundles, massive storage and Shah Rukh Khan ads. But free access doesn't automatically create love or habit. 15 Oct 2026](/articles/india-google-gemini-vs-chatgpt/)[engineering I Almost Sold My First Vibe-Coded App to a Pharma Company. And It Wasn't Just Another AI Wrapper. My first vibe-coded app almost became enterprise software for a pharmaceutical company. Here's what I built, the tech stack, and what I learned. 10 Oct 2026](/articles/almost-sold-first-vibe-coded-app-pharma/)[Opinions I Used to Love Dark Mode. Now I Absolutely Hate It I used to celebrate getting Instagram and Snapchat dark mode before everyone else. Now, at 23, I prefer light mode—and honestly, I think it's better for reading. 9 Sept 2026](/articles/i-used-to-love-dark-mode-now-i-hate-it-heres-why/)[tech How Cloudflare Saved 100 Terabytes of RAM Optimizing Its 1.1.1.1 DNS Cache (and What Rust Devs Can Steal) Cloudflare cut its DNS cache entries from 953 to 420 bytes with five Rust data structure changes — freeing ~100 TB of RAM while making lookups 19% faster. Here's exactly how they did it. 8 Sept 2026](/articles/how-cloudflare-saved-100-terabytes-of-ram-optimizing-its-1111-dns-cache-and-what-rust-devs-can-steal-2/)[ai Why Did Stripe Acquire OpenRouter? The Real Strategy Behind Stripe's $8 Billion AI Bet Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter looks strange at first: why would a payments company buy an AI model routing platform? The answer may reveal Stripe's plan to become the economic infrastructure of the AI and agent economy. 1 Sept 2026](/articles/why-did-stripe-acquire-openrouter-the-real-strategy-behind-stripes-dollar8-billion-ai-bet/)[ai Open-Weight AI Models Are Getting Scarily Good — My Experience Building a RAG System with GLM-5.3-Flash Open-weight AI models are no longer just cheap alternatives to GPT and Claude. After building a real RAG system with GLM-5.3-Flash, I think we're witnessing a major shift in how AI applications will be built. 30 Aug 2026](/articles/open-weight-ai-models-are-getting-scarily-good-my-experience-building-a-rag-system-with-glm-53-flash/)[Programming How I Built My Own RAG System Into My Portfolio Website A deep dive into how I built Jainil's RAG for my portfolio using pgvector, PostgreSQL, hybrid search, Dragonfly caching, reranking, guardrails, citations, and evaluation tests. 27 Aug 2026](/articles/how-i-built-my-own-rag-system-into-my-portfolio-website/)[tech India’s NavIC GPS Problem Explained: Why It Can’t Currently Navigate on Its Own India’s indigenous navigation system NavIC can no longer provide standalone positioning because only three PNT satellites remain operational. Here’s what happened, why it matters, and what ISRO is doing next. 20 Aug 2026](/articles/indias-navic-gps-problem-explained-why-it-cant-currently-navigate-on-its-own/)[political Why Indian Roads Crumble Every Monsoon (The Real Reasons) Potholes aren't just a rain problem. Here's the actual engineering breakdown of why Indian roads fail every monsoon, from truck overloading to bad drainage. 29 Jul 2026](/articles/why-do-indian-bitumen-roads-break-so-quickly-the-engineering-truth/)[ai The geopolitics of compute: why big tech is moving the AI stack to India Inside the multi billion dollar shift of AI infrastructure to India. The economic drivers, the compute stack, and the risk of a new digital extraction economy. 13 Jul 2026](/articles/the-geopolitics-of-compute-why-big-tech-is-moving-the-ai-stack-to-india/)[tech Why Every App Is Getting Worse (And It’s Not an Accident) Remember when apps were actually free? Here's why your Zomato bill, Amazon search, and Uber ride keep getting worse — and why India was the perfect target. 8 Jun 2026](/articles/why-every-app-is-getting-worse-and-its-not-an-accident/)[ai AI in India 2026: Scared, Leading, and Wasting Water India leads the world in enterprise AI at 80% but ranks 101st per person. The full honest picture: who's winning, what it costs, and what you should actually do. 16 May 2026](/articles/ai-in-india-2026-scared-leading-and-wasting-water/)[political The Bitter Truth Behind India’s Ethanol Revolution: What E20 is Secretly Costing You India's aggressive shift to mandatory E20 and E85 ethanol blending promises energy independence, but it hides vehicle damage, structural tax plays, and a terrifying rural water crisis. 16 May 2026](/articles/the-bitter-truth-behind-indias-ethanol-revolution-what-e20-is-secretly-costing-you/)[ai When Claude Became My Relationship Coach (She Hated AI) I deleted 1,080+ messages on Claude's advice. Then she found out I was using AI to talk to her. Here's where I drew the line — and where I should've started. 11 May 2026](/articles/when-claude-became-my-relationship-coach-she-hated-ai/)[ai Tokens Are Getting Cheaper. So Why Does AI Feel More Expensive? Prime's right that the AI economy is shifting — but the real story isn't about money. It's about GPUs, and nobody has enough of them. Let's break this down. 8 May 2026](/articles/tokens-are-getting-cheaper-so-why-does-ai-feel-more-expensive/)[ai Tokens Are Cheap. Thinking Isn't. I put a daily limit on AI prompts. Not because I can't afford the tokens, but because my brain can't afford the attention. Here's why limiting daily AI prompts protects clarity. 24 Apr 2026](/articles/tokens-are-cheap-thinking-isnt/)[ai India Was the World's AI Warfare Lab. Here's What Actually Happened. From the 2024 elections to Operation Sindoor, India faced the most complete AI information warfare campaign ever run against a democracy. Here's the full picture, technically. (177 chars — trim to: From deepfakes in 2024 elections to nuclear-risk AI disinfo during Sindoor — India is the world's most complete live case study in AI warfare. Here's the full technical breakdown. (181 chars — trim further:) China, the US, and AI in Indian elections — from deepfakes to Sindoor to arms market manipulation. The complete technical breakdown no one else is doing. 21 Apr 2026](/articles/india-was-the-worlds-ai-warfare-lab-heres-what-actually-happened/)[ai Qwen Just Became the Most Downloaded AI Model — Here's Why Nobody's Talking About It Alibaba's Qwen hit 1 billion downloads. 8 of 10 top AI models on Hugging Face are Qwen. Then the guy who built it walked out. Here's what actually happened. 17 Apr 2026](/articles/qwen-just-became-the-most-downloaded-ai-model-heres-why-nobodys-talking-about-it/)[ai Muse Spark: Meta's New AI Model Is Good. But Not Open Source. Meta Superintelligence Labs dropped Muse Spark after 9 months. Benchmarks are promising. But the open-source plot twist? Nobody's talking about it. Let's go. 9 Apr 2026](/articles/muse-spark-metas-new-ai-model-is-good-but-not-open-source/)[ai Claude Code Source Leak: What 390K Lines Expose About AI's "Secret Sauce" Anthropic accidentally open-sourced their flagship AI coding tool via source maps. Here's what the leak reveals about agent architecture, internal features, and why developers are rewriting it in Rust. 2 Apr 2026](/articles/claude-code-source-leak-what-390k-lines-expose-about-ais-secret-sauce/)[ai Maven Smart System: How Silicon Valley Optimized the Kill Chain The Pentagon just made Palantir's Maven Smart System an official program of record. Here's how the AI stack behind modern warfare actually works — and why it matters. 26 Mar 2026](/articles/maven-smart-system-how-silicon-valley-optimized-the-kill-chain/)[tech JioHotstar's Feature Flagging: How They Ship at Scale JioHotstar ships ~12 features a week to 500M users without breaking 61M live viewers. Here's how their feature flagging system actually works. 23 Mar 2026](/articles/jio-hotstar-s-feature-flagging-how-they-ship-at-scale/)[Linux OpenClaw: The Linux of AI Agents or a Security Nightmare? OpenClaw hit 250K GitHub stars as the "Linux of AI agents." With CVE-2026-25253, 41% vulnerable skills, and 21K exposed instances, is it infrastructure or nightmare? 22 Mar 2026](/articles/open-claw-the-linux-of-ai-agents-or-a-security-nightmare/)[Opinions Why Technical Depth Matters More Than Content Volume A reflection on why in-depth technical content is more valuable than superficial quantity in tech media. 21 Mar 2026](/articles/why-technical-depth-matters/)[ai Mozilla's Rebel Alliance: Can a Nonprofit Win the AI War? Mozilla built a legal structure to stop itself from becoming the next OpenAI. Here's how the 80/20 split, PBC bylaws, and a $1.4B bet on open-source AI actually works. 21 Mar 2026](/articles/mozilla-s-rebel-alliance-can-a-nonprofit-birth-a-startup-without-losing-its-soul/)[IoT The Future of IoT: Edge Computing and Beyond Exploring how edge computing is revolutionizing the Internet of Things and enabling real-time processing at the network's edge. 21 Mar 2026](/articles/iot-future-edge-computing/)[tech Apple Vision Light: The AR Glasses We've Been Waiting For? A comprehensive review of Apple's new Vision Light AR glasses and their potential impact on the augmented reality market. 20 Mar 2026](/articles/apple-vision-light-the-ar-glasses-we-ve-been-waiting-for/)[ai Announcing Vite+ Alpha Announcing the alpha release of Vite+, the next generation of the Vite build tool with enhanced features and performance. 13 Mar 2026](/articles/ai-models-2026/)[tech VoidZero and npmx: Building Better Tools Together Exploring the collaboration between VoidZero and npmx to create better JavaScript development tools. 3 Mar 2026](/articles/web-frameworks-benchmark/)[tech What's New in ViteLand: February 2026 Recap A comprehensive recap of all the exciting updates and developments in the Vite ecosystem for February 2026. 2 Mar 2026](/articles/quantum-computing-breakthrough/)[tech Tech Industry Hiring Stabilizes After Tumultuous Year Analysis of the tech hiring landscape in early 2026 and what it means for developers and companies. 28 Feb 2026](/articles/tech-layoffs-stabilize/)[Linux Rust in the Linux Kernel: One Year Later Reflecting on one year of Rust programming language integration into the Linux kernel development. 22 Jan 2026](/articles/rust-in-linux-kernel/)

No notes match that.

Try another word or clear the category filter.

Clear filters