The why?

Hi, I’m Nikhil—a technical advisor on AI at Microsoft, working at the intersection of research, engineering, and enterprise adoption. My focus is turning frontier AI—agentic frameworks, reasoning models, robotics, and multi-agent orchestration—into production systems that deliver measurable business outcomes.

I created Applied Context to share the practical side of AI. Too often, conversations stay stuck in hype or buried in research papers. Here, I write about the messy middle ground: how leaders, architects, and builders can design, evaluate, and scale AI systems responsibly.

If you’re curious about where AI agents, robotics, and system architectures are headed—and what it really takes to move from prototype to production—you’re in the right place.

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