Author

Sarthak Shrivastava

Founder & Principal Engineer

3 posts on the Bitfumes blog.

EngineeringJune 2, 2026

Agentic AI: what actually changes when a model can take actions.

Chat is a conversation. Agents are a system that reads, decides, and acts — which means the engineering bar, and the failure modes, are completely different.

Sarthak Shrivastava

Intermediate8 min read

EngineeringMarch 27, 2026

AI in production: the checklist most teams skip.

Getting a demo working is the easy 20%. Here's what separates a prototype from something you can trust running unattended in front of customers.

Sarthak Shrivastava

Advanced9 min read

EngineeringAugust 31, 2026

MCP: stop building the same AI integration five times.

Every AI assistant your team adds needs the same connection to your order database, your CRM, your ticket queue — built again, in a different SDK. Model Context Protocol lets you build that connection once.

Sarthak Shrivastava

Intermediate8 min read