Feb. 02, 2026

Agentic coding need not be 100% accurate

Developers who are worried that code produced by AI isn't always 100% accurate need to remember that humans aren't 100% accurate either.

That's why we do code reviews, linting, unit testing, integration testing, manual testing, continuous integration, demos... There is a whole suite of additional activities around coding to take …

Sep. 02, 2024

Founder Mode

"Hire a good talent, then get out of the way and give them room to do their job". (ie, don't meddle/micromanage) Is this good advice?

Paul Graham's latest article on Founder mode is making waves. In the article, Paul talks about the common management wisdom that I've quoted above …

Aug. 30, 2024

AI: Embeddings

For an LLM to work, it needs to somehow assign a meaning to a word. The problem is words can have different meanings in different contexts and be related to different words in multiple ways.

For example, Python and Java are related, so is Python and Cobra, and so is …

Aug. 30, 2024

Aug. 24, 2024

LinkedIn Queens

👑LinkedIn has a daily game called Queens.

Everyday you get a new map with 8 coloured areas and you have to place 8 queens such that there is one queen per row, one queen per column, one queen per colour and no two queens can be adjacent.

The post below …

Aug. 20, 2024

AI: Tokenisation

There is an interesting parallel between AI and written scripts.

Logographic scripts, like Chinese or Japanese Kanji, there is a separate 'glyph' to represent each word. If you can read the script, you can understand the meaning even if you don't know how to pronounce the word.

Phonetic scripts, like …

Aug. 01, 2024

Brian Holt on Excel

I was listening to a podcast today and Brian Holt was asked to pick something that everyone should check out. Normally folks pick the new hot thing that they are excited about. Brian picked Excel.

💯great pick.

Every alternate post on my timeline is about how Excel is obsolete, AI …

Jul. 30, 2024

Networking at Conferences

I often say that developers should always attend local meetups and conferences. It's not for the knowledge. You can get knowledge anywhere - Internet, YouTube, blogs. Even most conferences themselves will release the talk videos.

The main point of attending a conference is to meet other developers. Developing connections in the …

Jan. 07, 2024

Caps Word

The most annoying key on the keyboard is the Caps Lock. Does anyone actually use this key? It seems to get activated at the most inopportune moments (eg: when typing a password) without our knowledge.

But there are times when you want to type a small word in caps. Especially …

Sep. 01, 2023

Team vs Individual Performance in Software Dev

What is more important in software development? Having better quality team members? Or having the team members work together in a better way?

I was reading a post today explaining about how team performance in software development is more important than individual performance. And one part of the post said …