About the Author

Siddhant Khare is a software engineer at Ona and a maintainer of OpenFGA (CNCF Incubating). He builds open-source tools for agent infrastructure

  • Distill for context engineering and AgentTrace for agent observability.

His essay “AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it” reached #1 on Hacker News and was covered by Business Insider, Futurism, Techmeme, NDTV, The Chosun Ilbo, and others - with syndication across 10+ outlets globally. CEOs, investors, VPs of Engineering, Directors, CTOs, and senior engineers from Google, Netflix, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn, and dozens of other companies reached out after the piece. He speaks at conferences including KubeCon on AI agent infrastructure and security.

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Guide created: February 2026.