Raghavan S. Dhandapani

Building AI agents that deliver what vibe coding promised.

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15+ years building AI / ML systems. Quant Researcher at hedge funds, Machine Learning Engineer at Facebook and Apple.

Vibe Coding: The Last 20%

You know exactly what you want.

The whole app. Every screen. Every click. Exactly how it should work and feel.

The tools promise "no-code."

And for the first 80%, they deliver.

Then you hit the last 20%. The button that won't behave. The screen that's broken on a phone. The thing that worked yesterday and just doesn't today. So you ask the AI to fix it. It says done. It isn't. You ask again, and now something else is broken. Every fix breaks something you'd already gotten right.

And you have bigger things to do. A product to ship, people counting on you, work only you can do. So the box hands you a bad trade: abandon all of that to wrestle code you didn't write, or keep asking and hope. You were never really in control.

The 80 / 20 trap

The first 80% feels like magic. Then the AI takes your app hostage and you are reduced to pleading with it.

The fix isn't asking better. It's control. AI agents that hand you the controls. Change exactly what you want changed and nothing else. The black box becomes a glass box you can steer.

Control over the last 20%, not just the first 80%.

What I'm building

AI agents that end prompt-and-pray for good and give you the wheel.

Get in touch or find me on LinkedIn

Previously

Chakram AI

Co-founder & CTO

AI agents that turned enterprise sales notes into deployable cloud architecture, automating complex IT / cloud RFP responses and AWS funding docs that were still 100% manual.

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