Writing — Raghav Maini https://raghavmaini.com/writing/ Essays and engineering notes on applied AI, agent design, and the choices that make software useful. en-us Copyright Raghav Maini. All rights reserved. When AI researchers compare notes too soon https://raghavmaini.com/writing/when-ai-researchers-read-each-others-notes/ https://raghavmaini.com/writing/when-ai-researchers-read-each-others-notes/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Raghav Maini A shared lead can help a team reason—and quietly decide what everyone investigates next. Where should an agent’s tool call end? https://raghavmaini.com/writing/where-an-agents-tool-call-should-end/ https://raghavmaini.com/writing/where-an-agents-tool-call-should-end/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Raghav Maini A single call can contain a search, a program or another agent. The boundary determines which decisions return to the model. Cheap to continue, hard to start https://raghavmaini.com/writing/cheap-to-continue-hard-to-start/ https://raghavmaini.com/writing/cheap-to-continue-hard-to-start/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Raghav Maini How cached context can turn an AI serving optimization into a choice about whose work gets admitted. What an AI restoration asks us to believe https://raghavmaini.com/writing/what-an-ai-restoration-asks-us-to-believe/ https://raghavmaini.com/writing/what-an-ai-restoration-asks-us-to-believe/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Raghav Maini A reconstruction can correct a misconception while choosing details the evidence cannot settle. Your AI should be a difficult customer https://raghavmaini.com/writing/why-im-more-optimistic-about-ai/ https://raghavmaini.com/writing/why-im-more-optimistic-about-ai/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Raghav Maini What an agent learns from a purchase—and what happens when a sales pitch becomes a preference it thinks you expressed. Evidence, authority, and the cost of another question https://raghavmaini.com/writing/evidence-and-agent-decisions/ https://raghavmaini.com/writing/evidence-and-agent-decisions/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Raghav Maini How I separate evidence, authority, and spending from an agent’s choice of what to investigate. Designing AI agents for decisions that keep changing https://raghavmaini.com/writing/designing-ai-agents-for-decisions/ https://raghavmaini.com/writing/designing-ai-agents-for-decisions/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Raghav Maini Lessons from trying to work out whether rebuilding an exotic could ever make sense for me.