https://www.rohitkakani.com VP of Software Engineering and Wharton MBA leading cloud-native platforms and agentic AI systems at Lirio. Builder of consumer apps like WaterNation AI. en-us https://www.rohitkakani.com/blog/how-ai-companies-get-valued-and-acquired https://www.rohitkakani.com/blog/how-ai-companies-get-valued-and-acquired Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Frontier labs are raising at twenty to thirty times revenue while Big Tech buys startup teams without buying the companies. A look at what those numbers and deal structures are actually signaling. https://www.rohitkakani.com/blog/vp-of-engineering-why-am-i-still-writing-code https://www.rohitkakani.com/blog/vp-of-engineering-why-am-i-still-writing-code Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Senior engineering leaders get asked this a lot. Here's why staying technically close matters, and the trap of turning that into being the team's principal engineer. https://www.rohitkakani.com/blog/efficient-ai-pods-and-workstreams https://www.rohitkakani.com/blog/efficient-ai-pods-and-workstreams Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT How we structure small, focused AI pods and their workstreams to ship agentic systems without turning every team into an AI team. https://www.rohitkakani.com/blog/ai-assisted-development-without-a-process https://www.rohitkakani.com/blog/ai-assisted-development-without-a-process Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI coding assistants make writing software faster, but without a process the bottleneck just relocates, first to testing, then to deployment. AI centered orchestration is what actually smooths the pipeline.