Where to Invest in AI
AI has the potential to transform businesses, but figuring out where to invest and how to integrate AI can be challenging. On May 7, Andrei and I will be
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Essays on AI, software engineering and leadership, with occasional detours through books, society and life.
The Doppelgänger
Over the last couple of years I’ve run into a curious adversary. A doppelgänger. He writes clean, grammatically correct, structurally sound articles. He
Read essayPath Dependence
AI has a path dependence problem.
Read essaySurviving the Dark Forest
If you want to understand despair, try building a book tracking app and then searching the App Store to see what the competition looks like. Hint: it’s brutal
Read essayThe Spigot
I keep thinking about how we ended up here.
Read essayOn Agents and Harnesses
I run a personal agent called Saarthi. It is built on OpenClaw, an open-source agent framework. I have configured Saarthi around my own information processing
Read essayChatbots are driving a generational divide
Over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed a shift in behavior among the people I work with in India. Bolder career moves, pivots to free-lancing, open
Read essayThe Smiley Face Won
In February 2023, I stood in front of my engineering team and showed them a slide with a Shoggoth on it.
Read essayExchanging Insight for Output
I’ve spent the couple of years helping teams adopt AI tools while using them heavily myself. One pattern keeps showing up, and I don’t think we’re talking
Read essayCursor vs. Claude Code on Token Costs
Work by Krunal and his team at Jeavio found that Cursor is significantly more expensive (when it comes to Tokens) than Claude Code.
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