Practical thinking on AI, automation, and what it actually looks like to build with these tools.
I'm Vikas Singla, a builder and operator with 25 years running technology businesses. I write about what I'm seeing, what I'm building, and what's actually worth paying attention to. No hype. No filler. Just honest notes from someone doing the work.
You have been told that AI is the thing that separates people who can build from people who cannot. It is not. I know, because I built a real AI app over a weekend, and calling the AI was the part I spent the least time on by far. The hard part was everything else. The thinking before the code, the plumbing underneath it, the dozens of small decisions nobody ever sees. That is the 95% nobody talks about, and it is the part that... Engineering
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I led the team at IoT Secure that built the company’s first MCP server to connect Claude directly to IoT Secure’s exposure management platform. Most vendors give you a dashboard. We wanted to give customers something more. IoT Secure’s customers are adopting AI tools, Claude in particular, into their daily workflows. They’re using these platforms for research, analysis, and decision-making across their organization. I kept asking a simple question: instead of making them leave those tools to come check our portal, what if we brought... Engineering
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