TIMLIG
Field notes from building high-performance systems and teams.
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Timlig: Because systems—and careers—don’t scale by accident.
- The 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.
- Sovereign AI in India: A Word in Search of a Definition
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.
- The 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.
- Why You Can’t Buy a Data Center Right Now
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.
- Why Timlig Exists For A Minute
A shamelessly temporary name chosen to mirror how throwaway most engineering work really is.