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A few months ago ‘Loop Engineering’ became a hot topic in the AI agent space.

I was pretty optimistic about the future of software engineering five months ago, and I still am.

Around two months ago, I had created a new AI coding agent using another AI coding agent.

I realized that this, being my personal blog, does not always need to talk about AI and programming.

The wait In the last one month or so, OpenClaw went viral.

Yesterday in the morning I created a new AI coding agent, using an existing AI coding agent.

Last week, a post on X reminded me of my encounters with software code coverage.

As promised in my earlier post on the same topic, I have a little more to say.

Since the end of 2022, AI has been disrupting the world of software engineering.

My last working day at my previous employer was December 13 2024.

My favorite guidebook of all time is ‘The C Programming Language’ by Kernighan and Ritchie.

The seed It was my friend Frido who planted the seeds of this idea into my brain, by showing me a ‘brainrot IDE’ which had been accepted into YCombinator’s Fall 2025 batch.

Backstory Some years ago in my last job, a lot of us used to exceed disk space quotas.

I feel everybody who has been a software engineer for more than five years has hit a point where a bunch of people on the team feel that the entire codebase has become unmaintainable.

This story started on a Sunday, at the SundAI Club.

In a recent speech, Andrej Karpathy has classified software into three broad categories.

It all started with a post on X I made, more than a month ago is anybody doing vibe coding in rust?

I had been thinking of writing a completely different blog post, but just a while ago I got sidetracked by Andrej Karpathy’s post on vibe coding at a hackathon.

Inspired by Harper Reed’s blog post I want to document the way I am using AI.

After a couple of months of coding using AI prompts, I found two cases where a particular prompt doesn’t work.

Quick intro Here’s an idea that ocurred to me almost a month ago, and something that I have been working on since then.

I just realized that I haven’t blogged in four years, so it will be a while before my blog catches up with me.

(This is a continuation from my previous blog post.)

It all started in the third week of my batch at the Recurse Center, when I got interested in Audio Signal Processing, and signed up for a Coursera course which some people were doing.

I spent most of my working hours in the last six weeks learning about and using the Rust programming language.

Background More than a year ago, I was looking for a project which would help me learn the Rust programming language.

Background I had been seeing videos on YouTube about highly successful people waking up at 4:00 am or 4:30 am or even earlier.

Learning a new programming language is always a nice way to kick your brain into action.

I just realized that I have been working from home for fifteen months now.

I used to love debugging.

The Joel Test is quite famous and has inspired many programmers and organizations over the last two decades.

I used to be very passionate about developer productivity for years.

Today is the last day of my batch - that’s how fast a Mini batch flies by.

So now I am at the end of day 3 of this batch - which means more than half is over!

Yesterday was the first day of my second mini batch at the Recurse Center.

I am going to do my second ever batch at the Recurse Center - yay 😁 !

Today I saw I had made the same mistake twice in a month.

I had read wonderful things about Clojure many years ago in a blog post series.

I was thinking about creating social networks for specific purposes, when one day I figured out it would be good to have a social network restricted to my home.

After a lot of thought and planning I came down to RC for two days, alongwith a fellow Recurser from Boston.

(My notes from the final day of RC Mini 5 batch) 8:39 am Today is the last day of my batch.

(My notes from the fourth day of RC Mini 5 batch) 9:47 am I started a bit late today, and got delayed by having to skip one subway train because it was soooo crowded.

(My notes from the third day of RC Mini 5 batch) 8:19 am I have been reading The Joy of Clojure everyday.

(My notes from the second day of RC Mini 5 batch) 7:58 am I have been up since 6:30am.

9:15 am I woke up at my usual time of somewhere-between-6:30-and-7:00.

10:57 am I am going to the Recurse Center.

I am an entrepreneur, amateur musician, ex-programmer, as well as a husband and a father.

Note: A number of my projects are open source, so sponsorship helps me continue with them.