<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Danish Siddique · Full-Stack Engineer &amp; Agentic AI</title><description>Full-stack engineer with 5+ years building products end to end. At Kindred I own live video, scheduling, billing, and the agentic AI on top: RAG pipelines, in-app assistants, and developer-loop automation.</description><link>https://danishs360.github.io/</link><item><title>Take the interview before the interview: why I built Round Zero</title><link>https://danishs360.github.io/blog/take-the-interview-before-the-interview-why-i-built-round-zero/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://danishs360.github.io/blog/take-the-interview-before-the-interview-why-i-built-round-zero/</guid><description>Interview prep is full of question banks and resume puffery. Almost nothing simulates the actual conversation. Here&apos;s the gap I kept seeing — and the product I shipped to close it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stop vibe-checking your AI. Build the evals.</title><link>https://danishs360.github.io/blog/stop-vibe-checking-your-ai-build-the-evals/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://danishs360.github.io/blog/stop-vibe-checking-your-ai-build-the-evals/</guid><description>If the only way you know your AI feature works is that it felt right in the demo, you do not actually know it works. Here is how to start measuring.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Prompt engineering is mostly over. The job now is context engineering.</title><link>https://danishs360.github.io/blog/prompt-engineering-is-mostly-over-the-job-now-is-context-engineering/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://danishs360.github.io/blog/prompt-engineering-is-mostly-over-the-job-now-is-context-engineering/</guid><description>The skill that matters is not wording a clever prompt. It is deciding what goes in the context window, what stays out, and in what order.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How we cut our LLM bill about 30% without making the product worse</title><link>https://danishs360.github.io/blog/how-we-cut-our-llm-bill-about-30-without-making-the-product-worse/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://danishs360.github.io/blog/how-we-cut-our-llm-bill-about-30-without-making-the-product-worse/</guid><description>Three levers that actually moved our token spend: caching what repeats, routing to the right size of model, and sending less in the first place.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Graph memory and the token tax nobody is paying attention to</title><link>https://danishs360.github.io/blog/graph-memory-and-the-token-tax-nobody-is-paying-attention-to/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://danishs360.github.io/blog/graph-memory-and-the-token-tax-nobody-is-paying-attention-to/</guid><description>Stuffing an LLM&apos;s whole memory into every prompt is the most expensive habit in agent engineering. Here is how the memory crowd is fixing it, and the four-way retrieval I keep reaching for.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Are software developers getting replaced by AI?</title><link>https://danishs360.github.io/blog/are-software-developers-getting-replaced-by-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://danishs360.github.io/blog/are-software-developers-getting-replaced-by-ai/</guid><description>The honest answer nobody wants to give you ,yes, no, and it depends entirely on what you do next.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Welcome</title><link>https://danishs360.github.io/blog/welcome/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://danishs360.github.io/blog/welcome/</guid><description>A short introduction and what to expect from this blog.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>