How Over-Reliance on AI Hurts Young Engineers
Vibe coding can create false velocity, and negatively impact young engineers.
I write about building software, engineering leadership, AI, and what worked in practice.
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My learnings from Feeding India
What leading the engineering at an NGO taught me about strategy.
Building Zomato's Thriving Pirate Community
How I built Zomato’s full-stack “pirate” crew.
Introducing Units - A Tiny DSL for LLM-Generated UIs
A practical exploration of using a compact UI DSL to reduce LLM token overhead, improve structure validation, and compile cleanly to JSX.
Mar 03, 2026
AI Made Everyone “Full-Stack.”
AI has expanded engineers’ reach across the stack but the winners will be the ones who can verify, debug, and operate systems end-to-end.
Mar 02, 2026
I Refactored This Blog for UX, Not Vanity
From server-first rendering to no-JS fallback and cross-browser checks.
Feb 14, 2026
Powering annotations on articles using LLM
Implementing highlight-to-annotate using WebLLM for in-browser inference.
Jan 16, 2026
Build to Outlive
The real measure of engineering leadership isn't what you shipped — it's what keeps working after you leave.
Dec 31, 2025
Embedded AI Delivers Superior UX (Opinion)
Chat bots shine when goals are ambiguous, but they introduce context switches.
Jul 05, 2025
The Leadership Pipeline
The framework I use to spot and develop the next leader.
Feb 28, 2025
Unpacking Project Failures
Most of our failed projects died from bias and misguided assumptions, not bad engineering.
Sep 24, 2024
The Team That Never Worked Weekends (And Still Shipped On Time)
One team consistently shipped on time without weekend work. Here's what they did differently.
Jul 18, 2024
Using Pkl Language to Generate Configurations
How Pkl Language Improved Our UI Builder.
Feb 23, 2024
How Raw User Feedback Saved Our Product (When Dashboards Failed)
We drifted from our users, and our product showed it. Raw WhatsApp messages fixed what dashboards couldn't.
Oct 19, 2023