Building infrastructure for agents
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.
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Everything I bolted onto my Scrambler, and whySliders, guards, filters, braided lines, Denali DL4 and DL2 lights and a Healtech ThunderBox. Every part on my Ducati Scrambler was imported and fitted by me on my balcony, torqued to spec.
My Ducati didn't sign up for E20, and neither did IIndia went E20 at nearly every pump — premium grades included. The only ethanol-free petrol left is 100-octane, costs ₹168 a litre, and is out of stock across most of Bengaluru.
The 100km/h build list: every part, every reasonA full custom 1/8 scale RC buggy built entirely by hand — chassis kit, motor, ESC, batteries, and every bolt chosen individually. The complete parts list for a 100km/h build sourced from India.
LiteLLM and the trust chain nobody auditsA compromised security scanner led to malicious LiteLLM PyPI packages that harvested credentials and spread through Kubernetes clusters in three hours.
Road trips
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South IndiaMekedatu & Dabbaguli ADV CircuitBengaluru → Bidadi thatte idli → Kanakapura → Chunchi Falls → Sangama (Kaveri–Arkavathy confluence) → a dirt trail to the Dabbaguli riverside on the Tamil Nadu border → home via Anekal. A one-day ADV loop, skipping the highways.290 km9–11 hrsModerate
South IndiaManchanabele at 5 AMTwo Ducatis, one windscreen. A pre-dawn run from Bengaluru along Magadi Road to a still reservoir with Savandurga on the horizon.38 km each way~1 hrEasy
South IndiaValparai – Athirappilly Forest LoopCoimbatore → Pollachi → Valparai (40 hairpins) → Malakkappara forest road → Athirappilly Falls → Thrissur → Palakkad → Coimbatore. ~400 km in a day, billed as South India's most dangerous road.390 km11–13 hrs40 hairpinsDemanding