The First Principles

April 2026

The Agentic Engineering Field Guide, Part 2: The Framework and Platform Landscape

A walk through every credible option in April 2026. What each one is built for. Who it wins for. What it locks you into.

Apr 27 • Navneet Singh

The Agentic Engineering Field Guide, Part 1: How I Evaluate Agent Frameworks

Six questions every production system must answer, the orchestration patterns you will actually use, and the readiness checklist I run with every…

Apr 24 • Navneet Singh

Advanced Claude Code Techniques: Managing Context, Sessions, and Token Efficiency

Fourteen tactics that cut my token usage in half for the same work.

Apr 18 • Navneet Singh

1

What the Claude Code leak actually shows about building AI products

AI in Enterprise: What Actually Works — Part 1

Apr 12 • Navneet Singh

2

Software is about to stop looking like software

The product interface is going through its biggest shift since desktop to web. Most builders are looking the wrong way.

Apr 5 • Navneet Singh

March 2026

Software Is a Proxy. AI Makes It Obsolete.

Why dashboards, workflows, and "products" as we know them won't survive the next decade.

Mar 29 • Navneet Singh

December 2025