Systems that
survive production
I'm Prashanth. Fifteen years building software — mostly the kind that has to work when you're asleep. Currently designing Astra, an operating system for autonomous agents: microkernel, actor runtime, planet-scale task graph, 100M+ tasks/day.
What I'm working on
An OS for autonomous agents
Microkernel, actor runtime, distributed task graph, sandboxed tools, layered memory, LLM routing. Not a framework — an actual operating system.
BlogWriting from the trenches
Rails internals, Go concurrency, agent design, and the gap between "works in theory" and "survives 2am on-call."
Latest from the blog
All postsLiteLLM and the trust chain nobody audits
On Monday, someone pushed two compromised versions of `litellm` to PyPI. They were live for about three hours. In that window, any `pip install litellm` — or any CI pipeline that didn't pin versions — pulled a package that harvested SSH keys, cloud…
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