Writing | Chirag Patil

Writing from the work

Technical essays on building products, AI agents, and the systems that keep them running.

A brass lantern alarm clock.

When 1:20 AM happens twice

A shifted meeting, daylight saving time, and the problem of showing the same local time twice.

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Screenshots of the five benchmark tasks laid out like prints on a beige table.
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Chirag Patil

Oct 23, 2026

agent-browser vs browser-use

Two browser CLIs for AI agents, five tasks, three runs each. What I found and how I tested it.

A real python snake on moss, Mars in dark space, and a rusty orange crab on volcanic rock.
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Chirag Patil

Oct 6, 2026

Thoughts on Python vs Rust

How writing code with AI agents changed my trade-off between Python and Rust.

Two timelines of tool calls. Eight typed tools: 351 s and 26 screenshots, a long row of blue and orange blocks. One CLI tool: 102 s and 0 screenshots, a short row of green blocks.
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Chirag Patil

Sep 29, 2026

Same model, 15x fewer tokens

Same agent, same prompt, same model. Swapping eight typed browser tools for one CLI tool cut a run from 351 seconds to 102, and 1.5M input tokens to 97.5k.