This is real advice. People are hyping about the next workflow to 100x our productivity. Its ok to be 1x and still push less bugs than 100x and push 1000 bugs.

This is cool advice. I like writing, side projects, oss, reading, and making stuff. It just shows the passionate flowing out.

Ah! This is a developer trying to love his craft, yet the people are cruel to not respect it. They just want to solve problems; no one cares, they are right, but empathy is traded for business value.

Man, that was a heck of an article to read. I continued reading it because I found it relatable to Minecraft.

• You open a world, you have an empty inventory
• Still you believe you can win the game
• Without anything, “Kya lekar aya jagath me, kya lekar jayega” vibes

True, read it, it will change your perspective on reasoning for failure in a good way.

This is cool, maybe a little too much time aware, maybe doing it too much is bad, but still, a good way to break the mental procrastination cycle I think we can get a idea or get aware of the amount of time we wasted or done something good, and act on it accordingly. A nice trick for the brain

9:45: Wrap up the standup 9:54: Log clearing 10:15: Call with manager about the task 10:33: Felt bad

A cool tool to check how it made it

13 Tips for Writing a technical book

Link: https://borischerny.com/writing/2019/05/26/Tips-For-Writing-A-Technical-Book.html

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A handy little thing to remind myself, this is inevitable for me. I would write one. Not this year probably. But I would surely write one, my gut, my instinct is not false on this. I would this then. Great advice for just being curious.

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2025, The year in LLMs: Simon Willison Weblog

Link: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/

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Boy! That is a lot! I have been saying “overwhelming” word was not sufficient to describe this tend of LLMs in 2025. This explains the reason We had LLAMA falling, Gemini gripping, OpenAI still on the top yet cornered neck to neck suddenly with Chinese Labs and Anthropic in its own league. We saw the sudden rise and sudden dip in vibe coding, people thought “We can be programmers! We don’t need developers anymore, hehe” to “Damm! Do I need a developer to debug this?”. That was a funny thing to watch (as a developer) The images and 6 second video clip generated by AI are mind boggling, we saw from Sora and Nano Banana what havoc they can wreck if put in untamed hands. Local models are getting good, but the speed of the cloud and advancement over the other side is rocketing. There is also this trend of cli based agents. Claude code just set the trend and let 100s of cli agents rip off in the months to follow. Those are still released by new companies every now and then. Slop, yeah! We had less human slop than we needed AI right? Thanks to Simon Sir for this awesome blog. It finally gives me a relief to read so many thing have happened at a glance

Andrej Karapathy’s 2025 LLM Year in Review

Link: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2002118205729562949

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This was more of a reflection post, of how his mental model has changed and how things are building up. I like it. It was a interesting and highly technical perspective. His opinion of LLMs as Ghost is so liberating, as it actually threatens me from my identity if we compare it with humans. Ghost makes sense, even dismissive it as a slave sort of relation right? Not in a bad way but kind of inferior relation for LLMs with humans. Agent that lives in the terminal is practical, for a developer or a human who understands what they are doing, they know what they want, its just too much menial for them to spend the energy on. I agree. There is a lot of work to be done, developers, don’t strap your belts, hone your hammers, its going to be needed. Also his post:

Engineering is becoming bee-keeping

Link: https://bits.logic.inc/p/engineering-is-becoming-beekeeping

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I like this comparison quite a lot. Swarming agents is what its happening. And the realisation that code was the thing that doesn’t matter, the thing that matters is did we solve the problem

Source: techstructive-weekly-75