Blog archive
LangChain's June 2026 survey of 1,340 practitioners found 89% run observability but only 52.4% run offline evals. Here is the four-gate CI setup that closes the gap.
Manu Shukla 
Adversa AI tested 11 open-source coding agents in June 2026 and beat the safety filter on 10 of them with shell tricks that are 30 years old. How the bypass works, which designs held, what to change now.
Manu Shukla 
On July 1, 2026 Azure stopped new purchases and renewals of Reserved VM Instances for 18 VM series, including Dv3, Ev3, Av2 and Fsv2. Existing RIs still run to term. Two options remain, the renewal escape hatch is gone
Manu Shukla 
Three vendors now sell an agent that takes a task and returns a finished document. They bill in three incompatible ways, and independent research says reliability still trails capability.
Manu Shukla 
Anthropic began showing rupee prices in India on July 13, 2026. Claude Pro lists at ₹2,000/month against $17 in the US. Most of that 24% gap is GST, not an India surcharge - and the plan-versus-API decision matters far
Manu Shukla 
Egress is the cloud line item nobody quotes in the sales deck. Here is what four providers charge per GB as of June 2026, the hidden charges that dwarf the headline rate, and what the EU Data Act actually abolishes
Manu Shukla 
Cloud Run now fails over between regions automatically using readiness probes and serverless NEGs. Here is the working gcloud setup, plus the two defaults that silently break failover.
Manu Shukla 
CocoaPods trunk stops accepting new Podspecs on 2 December 2026 and Firebase stops publishing pods in October 2026. What actually breaks, what does not, and the order to migrate iOS and Flutter apps in.
Manu Shukla 
Penalties reach ₹250 crore and full compliance is due 13 May 2027. Vendors quote ₹15 lakh to ₹2 crore. Here is what DPDP compliance actually costs a startup, and which line items you can build yourself.
Manu Shukla 
Agents do not crash. They return a confident, plausible, wrong answer, and nothing goes red. Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to be cancelled by the end of 2027. Here is what to instrument, what to score
Manu Shukla 
Anthropic's Ode is valued at $1.5 billion; OpenAI's rival venture raised $4 billion at a $10 billion valuation. Both bet that implementation, not models, is the trillion-dollar business. Ode has 100 engineers and works
Manu Shukla 
MCP's 2026-07-28 spec is the largest revision since launch and it breaks things: the initialize handshake and Mcp-Session-Id are gone. Three ways to expose legacy systems to AI agents, and what each actually costs.
Manu Shukla 
Agents run heavy queries across your whole organisation. If the data is fragmented, the agent is guessing. Here is what the data layer needs before an agent is worth deploying.
Manu Shukla 
The build quote is the part of an ecommerce app budget that stops mattering. Gateway percentages, store commissions, platform fees and RBI tokenisation rules run forever. Real 2026 numbers, and how to scope against them.
Manu Shukla 
Supabase direct connections top out at 500 even on the largest instance, while the pooler reaches 12,000. DPDP prohibits tracking and targeted advertising directed at children. Five architecture rules for EdTech apps
Manu Shukla 
Google's own July 2026 guidance says GEO and AEO are still just SEO, and tells you to ignore most of the hacks being sold. The measurable prize is real: an AI Overview citation is worth 120% more organic clicks.
Manu Shukla 
India crossed 100 crore ABHA-linked health records in May 2026, doubling in 15 months. An app that is not ABDM-certified is built for a network it cannot join. What M1 to M4 require, and where the cost goes.
Manu Shukla 
SAMARTH Udyog gives Indian MSMEs Industry 4.0 support but no money. What machine vision, predictive maintenance and edge inference really cost in 2026, which numbers to trust, and how eCorpIT scopes a build.
Manu Shukla 
Every agency quotes a build price for a logistics app. Almost nobody quotes the running cost, which is where these products bleed. The real 2026 numbers, from Google's own India price list.
Manu Shukla 
Nobody can quote you an annual app maintenance figure without asking two questions first. Apple and Google set a mandatory floor of work every year, whether or not you ship a single new feature.
Manu Shukla 
GitHub reduced hosted runner prices by up to 39% on 1 January 2026, yet a macOS minute still costs $0.062 against $0.006 for Linux. Google found 84% of pass-to-fail transitions were flaky tests. Seven rules for a suite
Manu Shukla 
Stanford found RAG-backed legal tools still hallucinate 17-34% of the time. Here is what an enterprise RAG knowledge assistant costs in 2026, which retrieval setup actually works, and how eCorpIT builds one.
Manu Shukla 
Seed startups in India raised $478 Mn in H1 2026, up 18% YoY, at a $1 Mn median ticket. A 12-week SaaS MVP has to prove more than a demo. The build plan, the stack costs, and the engineering that survives diligence.
Manu Shukla 
Flutter 3.44 shipped in May 2026 with Dart 3.12, and stable is now 3.44.6. SwiftPM is the default on iOS, Material is frozen, and Android moves to AGP 9. Here is the upgrade order that keeps you shipping.
Manu Shukla 