Sasindu Bandara
Articles03 published

Things I've learned shipping enterprise software, integrating AI into real delivery pipelines, and the parts of engineering that only make sense in hindsight. No listicles.

01

Sinhala costs 3.5× more tokens than English, and nobody's counting

Every LLM pricing calculator assumes four characters per token. For Sinhala that assumption is off by a factor of three and a half — and it quietly makes non-English languages more expensive to build with.

AITokenizationEngineering
4 min
02

Put AI in the pipeline, not in the demo

Most teams adopt AI at the wrong layer. The wins that compound are not the flashy user-facing features — they are the unglamorous places in your delivery process where a model removes a queue.

AIEngineeringDelivery
4 min
03

Design for the second year of a codebase

Almost every architectural decision looks fine in week one. The ones that matter only reveal themselves around month fourteen, when the original authors have moved on and the requirements have changed twice.

EngineeringArchitecture
4 min