Manish Lad

AI Product Manager @Avalara | Author, 'AI from the Inside' Newsletter | Director @PuneUserGroup |

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🎤 Speaker Spotlight | PUG Tech Talk

Please welcome Aditya Kulkarni, Senior Consultant at Rapid Circle, to the PUG Tech Talk stage!

📌 Session: Exploring how Databricks unifies data engineering, analytics, and AI on a single Lakehouse platform

Data engineering, analytics and AI often live in separate tools and teams. Aditya will explore how Databricks brings all three together on one Lakehouse platform. If you work with data pipelines, BI or AI workloads, this session is for you.

📅 Saturday, 24 October 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM
📍 Altzor Digital Solutions | CoReCo Technologies
701, Platinum 9, Pashan-Sus Road, Near Audi Showroom, Baner, Pune – 411045

👉 RSVP on Meetup: https://t.co/kfSspHSAqp
💬 Join the PUG WhatsApp Community: https://t.co/PHiWDUTy4G

Thanks to Altzor Digital Solutions and CoReCo Technologies Private Limited for hosting us. 🙏

#PuneUserGroup #PUGTechTalk #Databricks #Lakehouse #DataEngineering #Analytics #AI #Pune

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Another version of our amazing “Tech Talk” Block your calendar right away and get ready for deep dive on Data and AI with our amazing speakers. Thanks Altzor and CORECO Technologiesfor their wonderful support
#PuneUserGroup #TechTalk

[Manish Lad @manish_lad1]

Agent, pipeline, or crew? 🤔

This Saturday at @PuneUserGroup Tech Talk, I'm sharing how I choose multi-agent patterns with Microsoft Agent Framework.

📅 Sat, 24 Oct · 10 AM · Baner, Pune
RSVP 👉 https://t.co/Dq50HqEcYO

#AIAgents #AgentFramework

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🎤 Speaker Spotlight | PUG Tech Talk
Please welcome Manish Lad @manish_lad1, AI Product Manager at Avalara, to the PUG Tech Talk stage!

📌 Session: Agent, Pipeline, or Crew? How I Choose Multi-Agent Patterns with Microsoft Agent Framework

Once you start building with AI agents, the next question comes fast: one agent, a pipeline of agents, or a crew working together? Manish will share how he makes that call with Microsoft Agent Framework. If you're building, or planning to build, agentic systems, this one's for you.

📅 Saturday, 24 October 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM
📍 Altzor Digital Solutions | CoReCo Technologies
701, Platinum 9, Pashan-Sus Road, Near Audi Showroom, Baner, Pune – 411045
👉 RSVP on Meetup: https://t.co/kfSspHSAqp

💬 Join the PUG WhatsApp Community: https://t.co/PHiWDUTy4G

Thanks to Altzor Digital Solutions and CoReCo Technologies Private Limited for hosting us. 🙏

#PuneUserGroup #PUGTechTalk #AIAgents #MultiAgent #AgentFramework #Microsoft #AI #Pune

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🎤 Speaker Spotlight | PUG Tech Talk
We're excited to welcome Shivprasad Koirala, Corporate Trainer, to the PUG Tech Talk stage!

📌 Session: Azure AI Walkthrough in 1 hour

Want to get a clear picture of Azure AI without spending weeks on it? Shivprasad will walk us through it in a single, focused hour. It's a great session whether you're just getting started with Azure AI or want a quick tour of the landscape.

📅 Saturday, 24 October 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM
📍 Altzor Digital Solutions | CoReCo Technologies
701, Platinum 9, Pashan-Sus Road, Near Audi Showroom, Baner, Pune – 411045

👉 RSVP on Meetup: https://t.co/1dXpJb7HUE
💬 Join the PUG WhatsApp Community: https://t.co/PHiWDUTy4G

Thanks to Altzor Digital Solutions and CoReCo Technologies Private Limited for hosting us. 🙏

#PuneUserGroup #PUGTechTalk #AzureAI #Azure #Microsoft #AI #Pune #TechCommunity

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🎙️ PUG Tech Talk is back, and you're invited!

Pune User Group, in association with Altzor Digital Solutions and CoReCo Technologies Private Limited, is hosting our next in-person Tech Talk for developers, architects and everyone who loves building with technology.

📅 Saturday, 24 October 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM
📍 Altzor Digital Solutions | CoReCo Technologies
701, Platinum 9, Pashan-Sus Road, Near Audi Showroom, Baner, Pune – 411045

Come for the sessions, stay for the conversations. It's a morning of learning, sharing and meeting Pune's tech community in person. The session lineup will be announced soon, so stay tuned.

👉 More details on Meetup: https://t.co/1dXpJb7HUE

💬 Join the PUG WhatsApp Community for updates: https://t.co/PHiWDUTy4G

A big thank you to Altzor and CoReCo Technologies for hosting us. 🙏

See you on the 24th!

#PuneUserGroup #PUGTechTalk #Pune #TechCommunity #Developers #Meetup

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Tried to read an Indian doctor's prescription today using the best models available to me. ChatGPT hallucinated medicines which were clearly not true. Claude Opus 5.5 outright refused saying the handwriting is too terrible to read (but a pharmacist might)

AGI is not here yet

[Manish Lad @manish_lad1]

The full piece covers the matrix, the trifecta, and six common mistakes:
https://t.co/uxObO9Kg1t

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Nobody decides to widen an agent's blast radius.

It widens one reasonable decision at a time.

A thread on why PMs, not security, own how far an agent can reach 🧵

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And "read-only" isn't the same as safe.

Private data + untrusted content + an outbound channel = the lethal trifecta. Any two are manageable. All three is how agents leak data.

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Full writeup, including what each layer actually does:

https://t.co/0rFVLV4FsW

[Manish Lad @manish_lad1]

We assumed AI assistants could just web-search their way to our developer docs.

They found them. They read them. Then they answered confidently and got it wrong.

The gap between "can find it" and "can use it" is bigger than it sounds.

[Manish Lad @manish_lad1]

You can run this evaluation this week.

Five common developer tasks. Three assistants. One question: could a competent developer act on this answer and get a working result?

No budget. No engineering time.