Field notes from building high-performance systems and teams.https://www.timlig.com/en-ushttps://www.timlig.com/posts/rss-is-live/https://www.timlig.com/posts/rss-is-live/Timlig now publishes a feed at /rss.xml. Point your reader at it and new posts will show up on their own.Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTmetarsshttps://www.timlig.com/posts/two-rupee-voice/https://www.timlig.com/posts/two-rupee-voice/A full Hindi voice conversation with an AI now costs about two rupees end-to-end — fifteen times cheaper than mid-2024. The model is built, the compute is subsidized, the languages mostly work. What's missing is somebody to write the line item.Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIIndiaBPLwelfareSarvamIndiaAI MissionASRTTSlanguage modelspolicyhttps://www.timlig.com/posts/sovereign-ai-india/https://www.timlig.com/posts/sovereign-ai-india/Walking the AI stack layer by layer — energy, silicon, chips, compute, networking, data, models, applications, governance — to ask what 'sovereign AI' actually means in India, and where the money is going.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIIndiasovereign AIpolicysemiconductorsinfrastructurehttps://www.timlig.com/posts/cheapest-gpus-in-the-world/https://www.timlig.com/posts/cheapest-gpus-in-the-world/The Indian government will sell you an H100-hour for 78 cents. Or zero rupees. Or four dollars. Here's why none of those are the real price.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.timlig.com/posts/ai-supply-chain-crisis/https://www.timlig.com/posts/ai-supply-chain-crisis/The AI boom created the worst electronics supply chain crisis in history. Here’s a simple map of what’s broken, who broke it, and when it gets fixed.Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT“AI”“supply chain”“data centers”“semiconductors”“infrastructure”https://www.timlig.com/posts/why-timlig/https://www.timlig.com/posts/why-timlig/A shamelessly temporary name chosen to mirror how throwaway most engineering work really is.Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTmetanamingvibe