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Nikita Kothari

Senior Member of technical Staff at Salesforce

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Joined Dec 2025

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From "Vibe Coding" to Production: Setting Up an Evals Loop for Claude Agents
Replacing unreliable “vibe coding” with a rigorous automated evaluation loop using curated datasets, Claude judge agents, and metric tracking for production AI agents.
June 11, 2026
· 2,092 Views · 1 Like
Building a Production-Ready AI Agent in 2026: Beyond the Hello World Demo
Stop treating AI agents like prompts — treat them like software. To ship in 2026: validated tool contracts, tiered memory, RAG grounding, and deep observability.
May 8, 2026
· 3,184 Views · 2 Likes
Beyond SOLID: Embracing CUPID for Modern Software Craftsmanship
CUPID shifts focus from rigid SOLID rules to practical, human-centric principles that make code composable, idiomatic, and enjoyable to maintain.
May 8, 2026
· 2,554 Views · 3 Likes
Security in the Age of MCP: Preventing "Hallucinated Privilege"
Prevent prompt injection in AI agents: default to read-only, require human approval for changes, and authenticate every tool call with end-user zero-trust permissions.
May 6, 2026
· 2,301 Views
Clean Code in the Age of Copilot: Why Semantics Matter More Than Ever
Your codebase is essentially a prompt: messy abstractions and "God Classes" pollute the context window, causing AI models to hallucinate or generate bugs.
March 5, 2026
· 1,810 Views · 3 Likes
Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Long Live DSPy.
Manual prompt engineering is dead; it is brittle, unscalable, and reliant on "magic strings." DSPy replaces this by treating prompts as optimizable parameters.
March 4, 2026
· 3,890 Views
Agentic AI vs Copilots: The Architectural Shift from Assistance to Autonomy
The industry is shifting from copilots that simply autocomplete code to agentic systems that autonomously plan and execute multi-step workflows in a recursive loop.
February 23, 2026
· 1,227 Views
Automating TDD: Using AI to Generate Edge-Case Unit Tests
This article demonstrates a "Threat-Model-First" workflow where we use AI not just to write code, but to aggressively attack our logic before we implement it.
January 30, 2026
· 1,967 Views
From Chatbot to Agent: Implementing the ReAct Pattern in Python
This article provides a raw Python implementation, moving beyond high-level frameworks to show exactly how the agentic loop works under the hood.
January 16, 2026
· 2,617 Views · 2 Likes

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