https://samikshadas.dev/writing Essays on AI, product, growth, systems thinking, and decision intelligence. en https://samikshadas.dev/writing/rag-honeymoon-is-over https://samikshadas.dev/writing/rag-honeymoon-is-over Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Retrieval-augmented generation demos beautifully and breaks quietly. Here's what actually fails when a copilot meets production data — and why most of it isn't a model problem. https://samikshadas.dev/writing/evals-are-the-new-prd https://samikshadas.dev/writing/evals-are-the-new-prd Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Product When a feature's output is non-deterministic, your spec can't be a list of screens. It has to be a definition of 'good' the whole team agrees on — which is what an eval really is. https://samikshadas.dev/writing/dashboards-to-decisions https://samikshadas.dev/writing/dashboards-to-decisions Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Decision Intelligence BI tooling has gotten extraordinarily good at showing you what happened. It mostly stalls at the last mile — turning a chart into a decision someone actually makes. https://samikshadas.dev/writing/zero-to-one-enterprise https://samikshadas.dev/writing/zero-to-one-enterprise Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Growth Building a new product inside a large organization means designing for two audiences at once — the person who adopts it and the person who approves it. Ignore either and you stall.