Karan Jakhar

I am an engineer working at the intersection of AI systems and real-world applications. My work focuses on building from first principles-designing and deploying systems around large language models, retrieval pipelines, and backend infrastructure that actually work outside of demos.

I am particularly interested in how intelligent systems behave in practice: where they fail, where they scale, and what it takes to make them reliable. My experience spans building end-to-end AI products, from model integration to production-grade APIs and system design.

This blog is a space for thinking out loud-about technology, systems, and ideas. It sits somewhere between engineering and philosophy, exploring not just how things work, but why they work the way they do.

Expect writing that is: - Grounded in real-world systems rather than theory alone - Focused on clarity over noise - Slightly opinionated, but reasoned - Curious about both technical and human questions

The goal isn’t to explain everything, but to think carefully about the things that matter.