Samy

Kondasamy Jayaraman

Engineering Leader · Data Platforms & Agentic AI

I build the teams and platforms behind reliable data products and AI systems. Over 14 years, I've led engineering across data platforms, fraud systems, and agentic AI. Today, I architect operational intelligence at Mastercard.

Views expressed here are my own and do not represent my employer.

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Codemode vs. MCP: Code as Orchestration Replaces Direct Tool Calling

Oct 2, 2026

Exposing MCP tools to language models burns 30,000 tokens on startup and turns the model into a single-step processor. Pi, OpenCode, Cloudflare, and Goose replaced tool calls with code.

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How Coding Agents Edit Files: Diffs, Snapshots, and Fast Apply Sep 20
Oh My Pi (omp): The Maximalist Harness That Puts the IDE in the Loop Sep 13
DeepSeek Harness, Cordis, and the Case for Spatiotemporal Agent Architectures Aug 14

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cmp: Fast Byte-by-Byte File Comparison for Shell Scripts Oct 4
Hyphens, En Dashes, and the Double-Hyphen Prose Dash Sep 26
pdftoppm: Convert PDF Pages to Images in One Command Sep 8

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