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Practical field notes and thoughtful updates on agentic AI, GenAI, data engineering, and product work from the CentricaSoft team.

AI & DataField NotesTeam Perspectives

Latest Thinking

Field notes from AI and data engineering work.

6 min read

Agentic AI

Why most agentic AI pilots never reach production

The pattern behind agent projects that stall in a demo loop — and the three guardrails that get them shipped.

Samad Nalagadda

Delivery Partner · Jun 2026

GenAI / RAG7 min read

Citations are not optional: grounding chatbots enterprises can trust

How retrieval quality, reranking, and source attribution decide whether a chatbot survives contact with real users.

Amit Basu

Co-Founder · May 2026

Data Engineering8 min read

The real cost of a lakehouse migration nobody talks about

Compute is cheap. Coordination is not. Notes from re-architecting a petabyte-scale batch system into streaming.

Shampa Ghosh

Director · May 2026

Metadata & Governance5 min read

Your data catalog is lying to you

Why manually maintained glossaries rot within a quarter, and what it takes to keep metadata alive automatically.

Samad Nalagadda

Delivery Partner · Apr 2026

Machine Learning6 min read

Forecasting models fail in the field, not the notebook

Lessons from putting demand-forecasting models into production where the data drifts and the business doesn't wait.

Sonali Jana

Team Lead · Apr 2026

Delivery4 min read

What a 14-day proof-of-value actually requires

The scoping discipline behind shipping a working AI system in two weeks instead of a slide deck in six.

Chiranjib Ghosh

CEO · Mar 2026

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