How Pepper Failed — SoftBank's $100M Emotional Robot That a Tablet Could Replace

Posted on Tue 09 June 2026 in AI Practice • Tagged with robotics, pepper, softbank, aldebaran, hardware-startups, failure-analysis, product-market-fit

In 2014, Masayoshi Son stood on a Tokyo stage and unveiled Pepper — a wide-eyed white humanoid he called the world's first robot that could read human emotions. He was not pitching a gadget. He was pitching a new era, one where SoftBank would lead the way as robots moved from …


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Rise and Fall of the Great Indian Mitra Robot

Posted on Tue 09 June 2026 in AI Practice • Tagged with robotics, mitra, invento-robotics, hardware-startups, failure-analysis, product-market-fit

In November 2017, a five-foot robot named Mitra greeted Ivanka Trump and chatted with Narendra Modi at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad. It was the kind of moment a founder cannot buy — national press, a viral clip, India's own humanoid robot sharing a stage with world leaders.

Nine years …


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Sashiko — The AI That Catches Kernel Bugs Humans Already Missed

Posted on Mon 08 June 2026 in GenAI Engineering • Tagged with agentic-ai, linux-kernel, code-review, rust, llm, sashiko

Sashiko (刺し子, "little stabs") borrows its name from a Japanese reinforcement-stitching technique — fabric repaired and strengthened at its points of wear. The metaphor is the whole pitch: an agentic system that stitches over the weak spots in proposed Linux kernel patches before they land. It's written in Rust …


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100 Real GenAI Engineer Interview Questions

Posted on Wed 03 June 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with genai, interview, llm, rag, agents, mlops, compliance

Training & Adaptation Strategy

  1. What approaches exist for training or adapting an LLM? — Pretraining, fine-tuning, instruction tuning, prompt engineering, RAG.

  2. Base model vs instruction-tuned model? — Pure next-token predictor vs one aligned to follow instructions.

  3. When would you choose fine-tuning over RAG? — Stable domain knowledge, style/format control, latency sensitivity.

  4. When would …


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50 Basic GenAI Engineer Interview Questions

Posted on Tue 02 June 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with genai, interview, llm, rag, fine-tuning, mlops

A starter question bank for screening entry-level GenAI engineers. Grouped by theme, covering fundamentals through production concerns.

Fundamentals

  1. What is generative AI vs discriminative AI? — Generative models learn to produce new data; discriminative models learn decision boundaries to classify or predict.

  2. What is a large language model (LLM)? — A neural …


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How Tamil Nadu Government Paved My Computer Dream

Posted on Sat 02 May 2026 in Life • Tagged with life, education, tamilnadu, personal

When I was in 11th grade, my school — a Government Higher Secondary School — got its first color computer.

Even though I was a Bio-Maths student, the school management made a great call: one mandatory computer session every Friday for all 11th and 12th graders.

Our computer teacher had a tradition …


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Exploring NemoClaw — NVIDIA's Local AI Agent Sandbox

Posted on Fri 01 May 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, NVIDIA, NemoClaw, Ollama, Docker

NemoClaw is NVIDIA's agent sandbox that lets you run AI assistants locally using your own inference backend — Ollama, llama.cpp, or cloud providers. It bundles OpenShell as a gateway and OpenClaw as the agent runtime, all orchestrated through Docker containers.

Here's a walkthrough of setting it up from scratch.

Setup …


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macOS System Info Commands You Should Know

Posted on Fri 01 May 2026 in DevTools • Tagged with macos, terminal, cli, sysadmin, commands

Getting your macOS system and disk information from the terminal is straightforward once you know the right commands. Here's a quick reference.

System Info

system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType — Displays macOS version, build number, kernel version, boot volume, and uptime. Good for confirming your OS details quickly.

Use like this in your terminal …


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You Have Been Using Claude Wrong — Here Is What It Can Actually Do

Posted on Thu 23 April 2026 in AI Fundamentals • Tagged with claude, anthropic, genai-beginners, ai-tools, llm-workflows, productivity

Introduction

When most beginners open Claude for the first time, they type a question and wait for an answer. That is a perfectly valid starting point. But if that is all you have been doing, you are using a fraction of what is actually there.

Claude is not just a …


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Run Lubuntu Desktop on Docker Using Webtop

Posted on Sun 19 April 2026 in Docker • Tagged with Docker, Lubuntu, Linux, Webtop, Container

TLDR;

GitHub Token

To pull container images from GitHub's registry, you need a Personal Access Token (PAT).

  1. Go to GitHub Token Settings
  2. Click Generate new token (classic)
  3. Give it a descriptive name and set an expiry
  4. Under scopes, check read:packages
  5. Click Generate token and copy it right away — you …

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