Pramood Waikar

AI Is Costing More Than the Employees It Replaced

AI Is Costing More Than the Employees It Replaced. Here Is What Indian CTOs Are Not Measuring.

In December 2025, the company rolled out Anthropic’s Claude Code (AI) to roughly 5,000 engineers. Within weeks, adoption was extraordinary. By spring 2026, 95% of engineers were using AI tools monthly. Around 70% of code commits were AI-driven. Usage of agentic AI features surged from 32% in February to 84% by March 2026. Lexology By …

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Who Actually Controls Your Employee Data? If the Answer Is Your Vendor, Read This.

On February 27, 2024, a hacker got into VeriSource Services, a US-based HR and employee benefits administration platform. The attacker was inside the system for one day before unusual activity was detected. By then, the employee data was already gone. Four million employee records. Names. Home addresses. Dates of birth. Gender. Government identification numbers. Employees …

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The Clock Is Running. What Indian Banks and NBFCs Must Do Before the DPDP Act Bites.

In 2024, a major Indian insurance (NBFC) company discovered a problem it did not create. A third-party service provider it had engaged exposed nearly six lakh customer records on a dark web forum. Names. Email addresses. Mobile numbers. Policy details. The kind of information that, in the wrong hands, enables identity fraud, targeted scams, and …

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1 Laptop in BPO Office That Became Adobe’s Worst Nightmare

It started with one email, and Adobe lost $13 million of customer records Not a sophisticated zero-day exploit. Not a nation-state attack with custom malware. Just a regular-looking email sitting in the inbox of a support desk employee at an Indian BPO company, somewhere in an office very much like ones you might walk past …

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Sri Lanka email Fraud | Skeletos

3 Frauds, 3 Countries, 1 Fake Email. The Sri Lanka Cyber Heist That Should Scare Every Business in the World.

Nobody planned to steal $3 million from Sri Lanka. They planned to steal $500,000. Once. Quietly. And then disappear. But it worked so well the first time that they came back. And then came back again. And by the time anyone noticed, three separate government departments had sent money to three different fraudulent accounts. The …

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AWS cost overrun — architecture mistakes startups make — Skeletos IT Pune

Your AWS Bill Is Not an AWS Problem. It Is an Architecture Problem.

Every few months, somewhere in the Indian startup and product company ecosystem, a finance team opens the AWS billing dashboard and has a quiet panic. The bill has doubled. Or tripled. Sometimes more. And the engineering team, when asked, cannot immediately explain why. This is not rare. It is one of the most common and …

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“Just Use AI.” Three Words That Are Killing Software Product Companies.

Just use AI… You spend a week understanding the requirement. You sit with your team. You scope it properly. You account for testing, deployment, and everything that makes the software actually work. You send a proposal. The reply comes back. “This seems high. Our friend says AI can do this in two weeks for much …

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TISAX: The One Certificate Indian Manufacturers Are Losing European Contracts Without

A few months ago, I was speaking with the owner of an auto component manufacturer based in PCMC. Good company. ISO 9001 certified. Strong quality systems. They had been chasing a German Tier 1 supplier for almost a year. They finally got a serious response. The German company was interested. Asked for a few documents. …

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SaaS Is Not Dead. But the Free Ride Is Over.

A business owner, Founder of a mid-size company from our ‘Business Community’, a sharp guy, has been in the industry for 15 years — called me a few days ago, sounding genuinely frustrated. “Pramood,” he said, “we are paying for 6 SaaS tools. Half of them overlap. Every single one of them raised prices this …

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