Book Review: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
Titanium Noir is a noir novel first, set in an interesting world second. World-building and story take a backseat to tone and genre conventions, which is
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Essays on AI, software engineering and leadership, with occasional detours through books, society and life.
A Letter to 2025
Dear Rushi,
Read essay2025: My Year in Books
Reading kept me sane in 2025. Between two young children, a hectic travel schedule, and an industry in the throes of transformation, books were the constant.
Read essay2025: The Year I Became A Cyborg
In chemistry, activation energy is the minimum energy required to start a reaction. It's the barrier between potential and action, between "I could" and "I
Read essayThe Same Window For Everything
I've been thinking about how I use AI tools lately. They're clearly useful. What interests me is how the experience feels.
Read essayIlya Sutskever, the Scaling Hypothesis, and the Art of Talking Your Book
If you've just raised $3 billion to build a new god, it helps to question the faith in the old one.
Read essayIs Your AI Playing Roulette, Poker, or War?
On May 6, 2010, the Dow Jones dropped nearly 1,000 points in minutes. A trillion dollars vanished. And then the market bounced back. The whole thing took
Read essayPrompting Is All You Need
Agents are supposed to be the future of how we build AI software. I am not so sure.
Read essayWhy is LLM writing so weird?
AI writing is strange. The models continue to improve, yet they still struggle to cross the uncanny valley that separates AI-generated content from
Read essay5 Mental Models to understand the current AI Moment.
Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."AI usage is a terrible metric. Using AI for what? We end up with initiatives
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