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AI engineering8 minWhat Is Jev? The Decision Model With Free Output Tokens, and How to Use It on OpenRouter
Jev charges $0 for output because it does not produce text. It returns a typed answer and a probability. One benchmark had it classifying 5.43x faster than Claude Haiku at 96% lower cost, and more accurately.
Garvish Dua
9 Oct 2026
Careers6 min1 viewsIndia's IT Fresher Hiring Fell From 600,000 to 120,000. Here Is What Replaced It.
An 80% drop in three years is not a bad year, it is a different industry. The budget did not disappear though, and knowing where it went is the difference between waiting and preparing.
Garvish Dua
4 Oct 2026
AI engineering7 min1 viewsDeepSeek Harness: What the Plugin-Only Architecture Actually Buys You
The star count is being reported five different ways, so ignore it. The interesting thing is that the agent loop itself is a replaceable plugin, and that the cache pricing underneath it is 120 times cheaper than the headline rate.
Garvish Dua
18 Sept 2026
AI engineering6 min1 viewsMicrosoft ThinkingBox: How to Test If Your AI Agent Actually Works
The best model in Microsoft's new benchmark completes a task 65% of the time on one try, and gets it right on all 20 tries only 25% of the time. That gap is why a working demo proves almost nothing.
Garvish Dua
15 Sept 2026
AI engineering10 min13 viewsGPT-6 Astra: The Complete Guide (And the One Number You Should Not Trust)
OpenAI's new flagship scored 99.9% on a reasoning benchmark where the last model got 7.8%. That number is real and it is also close to useless for you. Here is everything Astra does, in plain language.
Garvish Dua
12 Sept 2026
Careers7 min6 viewsTier-2 Tech Hiring Is Growing 25% While Metros Grow 10%. Read the Base Before You Move.
The growth gap is real and every article stops there. Tier-1 still holds 53% of planned hiring against tier-2's 32%, and the reason companies are moving is a 25% lower cost base, which is also your salary.
Garvish Dua
10 Sept 2026
Careers6 min2 viewsUpwork Cut a Quarter of Its Staff While AI Work on Its Platform Grew 40%
Both numbers came from the same earnings cycle. If you freelance, one of them is about your market and the other is about your landlord, and confusing the two will cost you.
Garvish Dua
6 Sept 2026
Careers6 min1 views85% of Engineering Grads Are Unplaced in 2026, and 87.8% of Companies Say They Are Hiring
Both numbers come from the same survey of 37,000 students and 500 HR leaders. Understanding how they fit together tells you more about your job search than any placement advice will.
Garvish Dua
4 Sept 2026
Careers7 min2 viewsAI Resume Screening Rejects You Everywhere
Stanford tracked 4 million applications and found that using the same screening vendor across employers makes rejections correlate. Meanwhile the stat you have been optimising against turns out to be marketing copy from a company that died in 2013.
Garvish Dua
1 Sept 2026
SEO7 min3 viewsProgrammatic SEO in 2026: The Pipeline That Does Not Get You Deindexed
Sites that shipped thousands of templated pages lost 60 to 90 percent of their rankings in March 2026. The pages that survived had one thing in common, and it is countable.
Garvish Dua
30 Aug 2026