InThe Code FrontierbyAgarwal Astha - Lead AI Architect (Microsoft)·Oct 23Frontier Models and Frontier Tuning: Cutting Through the NoiseWhy “frontier” is the most overloaded word in AI
InArtificial Intelligence in Plain EnglishbyAgarwal Astha - Lead AI Architect (Microsoft)·Oct 19Stateful vs Stateless Agents: What They Are and When to Use EachWhy agent state decides your architecture
Agarwal Astha - Lead AI Architect (Microsoft)·Oct 5Multi-Agent Interoperability: A Technical Deep Dive into MCP, A2A, and Execution HooksAs enterprises move from isolated AI agents to ecosystems of specialized agents, interoperability becomes essential. Agents need to…
InArtificial Intelligence in Plain EnglishbyAgarwal Astha - Lead AI Architect (Microsoft)·Sep 16The Agent Is Not the System: Building an AI Coding Harness You Can TrustAn implementation-focused architecture for turning probabilistic coding agents into a governed, testable, observable, and continuously…
Agarwal Astha - Lead AI Architect (Microsoft)·Sep 9Harness Engineering: Why I Stopped Optimizing Prompts and Started Engineering the System Around AI…The most important lesson I learned while building AI-powered software wasn’t about models, prompts, or even agents. It was about…
Agarwal Astha - Lead AI Architect (Microsoft)·Jul 31Scalability Is the New Key Challenge for AI Solutions — Not CapabilityFor the last two years, the enterprise AI conversation was dominated by a capability question: can the model do the task. That question is…
Agarwal Astha - Lead AI Architect (Microsoft)·Jul 31Before You Build Enterprise AI, Ask These 40 QuestionsThe discovery playbook that separates scalable AI platforms from expensive proof-of-concepts.
InArtificial Intelligence in Plain EnglishbyAgarwal Astha - Lead AI Architect (Microsoft)·Jul 20Beyond Prompt Engineering: Building Loop-Engineered Agentic SystemsWhy the next generation of AI systems will be designed as control loops, not prompt templatesA response icon1A response icon1
InArtificial Intelligence in Plain EnglishbyAgarwal Astha - Lead AI Architect (Microsoft)·Jul 9Vectorless RAG in Practice: Explainable Retrieval Without EmbeddingsWhy I stopped chunking documents and started walking trees insteadA response icon2A response icon2
Agarwal Astha - Lead AI Architect (Microsoft)·Jun 15The Hidden Shortcuts That Quietly Make Microsoft Copilot, Cowork & Scout 10x FasterThe small tricks nobody tells you about — but power users rely on
