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05/26/2026

Comment "RAG" and I'll send you my full guide to RAG, straight to your DMs.

Here is the problem with AI in a real company.

ChatGPT was trained on the public internet. It does not know your company's Slack messages. It does not know your sales playbook. It does not know what was in last quarter's board deck.

You have two options to fix this.

Option one is retraining the model on all your internal data. That costs millions of dollars and takes months. Every time your data changes, you retrain again. Nobody does this for day-to-day use.

Option two is RAG. Retrieval Augmented Generation.

Here is how it works, without jargon.

Step 1. You take your company's documents. Slack threads, wikis, reports, PDFs. You chop them into small pieces and store them in a special database that understands meaning, not just keywords.

Step 2. When someone asks a question, the system searches that database and pulls out the 5 or 10 most relevant pieces for that specific question.

Step 3. The AI model gets the question and those retrieved pieces together, and uses only those pieces to generate an answer.

That is it. No retraining. No expensive infrastructure. Just a well-organized masala dabba that the model reaches into when it needs context.

This is why every serious enterprise AI deployment in 2026 runs on RAG. It is the fastest, cheapest way to make a general AI model feel like it was built for your company.

Comment "RAG" for the full guide.

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05/25/2026

200+ AI Tools Names List – Ultimate AI Loot

Stop searching randomly — here’s a power-packed list of 200+ AI tools to boost your productivity & skills

📦 What You’ll Discover:
✅ Content Creation AI
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✅ Coding Assistants
✅ Productivity Tools
✅ Marketing & SEO AI
✅ Chatbots & Automation
✅ Design & UI Tools

📥 Get Full List:
👉 Link in Bio

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05/24/2026

Why are we not seeing value ROI from AI?

05/23/2026

Comment "CARE" and I’ll DM you the link.

Moving abroad gives you so much but it can also give you a guilt nobody really talks about enough.

You build the career, the life, the freedom… while your parents are back home getting older, and you can’t always be there the way you want to be.

I used to think choosing my career meant choosing distance.

That every flight came with a little guilt attached.
That if something happened while I was halfway across the world, I’d never forgive myself.

That’s why Nila Cares means so much to me.

It’s built for families like ours with certified carers, medication reminders, doctor appointment support, and 24/7 emergency help so you can feel more connected, even when you’re far away.

If you want to try, comment "CARE" and I’ll DM you the link.

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05/21/2026

Comment "cloud" and I’ll send you the link.

Your cloud bill is the gym membership of enterprise software.

You pay for equipment you never touch, and somehow the bill still keeps growing.

For most companies, cloud has become the second-biggest cost after headcount and AI is making that spend even harder to control.

And the painful part is this: a huge chunk of cloud spend is wasted, especially when teams overcommit to long-term plans they no longer need.

But whst if cloud providers give the best discounts when you commit for one or three years.

That’s the idea behind Archera.

Archera gives you cloud savings with as little as a 30-day commitment, and if workloads change, they can buy back the unused portion or rebate you directly.

And that flexibility matters even more now, because AI workloads change fast and cloud commitments can go stale before the contract ends.

To know more about this or wants to give a try comment "cloud" and I’ll send you the link.

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05/20/2026

Comment "STARTUPS" and I'll send you my breakdown of 5 AI startups founded by ex-Google and Microsoft engineers, straight to your DMs.

2.7 billion dollars. That's what Google paid to hire two of its own former engineers back in 2024.

One of them, Noam Shazeer, co-wrote the 2017 Transformer paper. The research that quietly made every AI product you use today possible. He and Daniel De Freitas left Google in 2021 because the company decided not to ship the chatbot they had been building internally. So they built it themselves. Character AI.

In under two years, it hit a 1 billion dollar valuation.

Then in August 2024, Google did something rare. Instead of acquiring Character AI, they paid 2.7 billion for a non-exclusive license, and brought Noam back to DeepMind.

After spending a decade across Google and Microsoft, I've noticed a pattern. The best AI research engineers inside big tech aren't just building products. They're quietly becoming the next generation of founders. And the companies that used to employ them are starting to treat them exactly that way.

This is Part 1 of 5. Follow for the series.

Comment "STARTUPS" for the full breakdown.

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05/19/2026

I wish someone told me sooner… you don’t have to choose between being technical AND being a great storyteller.

Here’s who I am and what you’ll find here:

🤖 Leading AI transformation for Fortune 500s at Microsoft
☁️ Former Head of Developer Relations at Google Cloud
📚 Author of 2 bestselling books on Cloud & Generative AI
🎤 TED speaker | Wharton faculty | Visual storytelling nerd
💡 Real AI & Cloud insights — no hype, no fluff

This is your space to get smarter about AI, Cloud, and what it actually takes to lead in tech.

Save this. Follow along. Let’s build something great together. 🙌

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05/18/2026

Comment “my future” if you want the full breakdown in my newsletter.

Most software engineers don’t realize this yet: AI is changing software engineering careers faster than most people are adjusting.

The old path was simple, become a specialist, stay in your lane, and climb.

But now the shallow work is being automated, which means the engineers who grow next are the ones who combine depth with breadth.

That’s why T-shaped engineers and M-shaped engineers matter so much in the AI era.

👉 A T-shaped engineer is a specialist in one area and a generalist across the rest.

👉 An M-shaped engineer has two deep specialties and can still move across product, infrastructure, and systems thinking.

AI can handle code generation, tests, and routine fixes but it still needs human judgment, context, and the ability to catch what it gets wrong.

So if you want to stay relevant, don’t just sharpen one skill. Build a second deep skill today, security, product, data, architecture, or systems thinking.

Save this, and comment “my future” if you want the full breakdown in my newsletter.

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05/16/2026

Hi 👋 friends! I am Priyanka Vergadia, the Cloud Girl. The am the bridge between the builder and the boardroom. Deeply connected to the AI and Cloud innovations and making them real at companies in real life!

Here on instagram I share my learning in cloud and AI and what’s happening in tech. Follow if you are into all things current news in tech.

It’s a crazy and very exciting time to be alive!

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