mm-machine
Local AI or Frontier LLM Cloud? The Real Economics for Professional Work
An India-focused comparison of Apple Mac mini, NVIDIA DGX Spark, AI subscriptions, and metered APIs — September 2026
AI
mm-machine
The Retrenchment Trap: Why “AI Lets Us Cut Engineers” Is the Wrong Sentence
AI coding tools cost less than the engineers they're replacing" — the math looks simple until you build it line by line. The honest answer isn't one number; it's a range, and the cut deep enough to pay for itself is the same cut modelled to hurt your customers.
Mind & Machine
The Dopamine of Artificial Intelligence: Why LLMs Are Making Us Hooked to Our Computers
Why does one AI prompt always lead to ten more? I explore the science of AI's strange pull — and how to stay in control. What's your longest AI rabbit hole?
AI
Why India Needs Its Own Foundational AI Models: A Cost-Benefit Case for Public-Private Investment
India should build its own foundational AI models through public-private investment—keeping money, data, and intelligence at home rather than perpetually renting them abroad.