Sarker

Just stardust contemplating star stuff.. Trying to make sense of politics, tech and life in general as an Indian. Occasionally blogging on tech topics https://ed.plus/content https://tochai.leaflet.pub Reach : https://topmate.io/sourav_sarker10

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The heat trap,dopamine loops & conformism

Three situations, not unique by themselves to Indians in particular. But the blend seems challenging enough. These are some of the realities in everyone's life if you are here and kind of shape how fa…

2d ago·4 min read·743 words

Learn & Relearn

With industry changes forcing us to re-evaluate what software engineering should be, the retrospection path isn't uniform or unanimous, nor should it be.

Apr 26·4 min read·657 words

Specs to rule them all?

With LLMs being good enough to generate code, the implementation cost is dropping drastically. And a trident is emerging which can be an attempt to harness how aligned agents are to real intent. Is Sp…

Mar 26·4 min read·726 words

The impact of connotations in tech (an Indian pov)

An ecosystem evolves with the meaning and context of the words/conventions used by it's participants. We need shared understanding to have meaningful conversations around topics. The engineering & s…

Mar 1·7 min read·1335 words

Will AI tools manifest more intent based API?

While LLMs provided a significant leap in capability, how 'agentic' we should be with them has been of significant interest over the last years.

Feb 16·5 min read·842 words