<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Jainam Shah</title><description>Thoughts on AI, system design, and building with emerging tech.</description><link>https://blog.jainamshah.workers.dev/</link><item><title>I Benchmarked Naive vs. Optimized Prompts Across 10 Job Roles. Here&apos;s What Surprised Me.</title><link>https://blog.jainamshah.workers.dev/blog/benchmark-naive-vs-optimized-prompts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.jainamshah.workers.dev/blog/benchmark-naive-vs-optimized-prompts/</guid><description>I benchmarked naive vs optimized prompts across 10 roles with PromptFoo. Sales jumped 3.02→7.86. Legal hit 410s latency. Cost is not quality.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Jainam</author></item><item><title>A Data Engineer&apos;s Deep Dive into the MCP Toolbox</title><link>https://blog.jainamshah.workers.dev/blog/data-engineers-mcp-toolbox/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.jainamshah.workers.dev/blog/data-engineers-mcp-toolbox/</guid><description>MCP servers fail in production not because models are weak, but because they lack the context human engineers rely on. Here is how to fix that.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Jainam</author></item><item><title>The End of Cheap Tokens</title><link>https://blog.jainamshah.workers.dev/blog/end-of-cheap-tokens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.jainamshah.workers.dev/blog/end-of-cheap-tokens/</guid><description>AI compute is becoming a perishable resource. From the Qwen moment to Provisioned Throughput — how AI billing is evolving like airline tickets.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Jainam</author></item><item><title>Karpathy&apos;s LLM Wiki Is Brilliant. The Access Problem Almost Killed It.</title><link>https://blog.jainamshah.workers.dev/blog/llm-wiki-access-problem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.jainamshah.workers.dev/blog/llm-wiki-access-problem/</guid><description>I built a wiki that auto-captures every Claude session. Getting other tools to read it required treating the wiki as a server, not a folder.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Jainam</author></item></channel></rss>