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Essence, reasoning, and optimization are universally relevant for serious software, with or without AI

Exploring what's underneath LLMs, risks in knowledge and agency gap in the society, and the potential way to a better future

Do you know what separates us from dead things?

Think long life, get long life

It’s not the layers that matter.

The problem isn’t complexity.

Last year, 2024, I had the wildest job.

Love, like free will, exists despite itself, insisting upon its own reality and spawning endless justifications to make sense of its presence.

For kitchen utensils, scaling, and less thinking

Why would anyone want a distributed system solution a single threaded app?????

...as the right word unlocks a whole new dimension for our thoughts.

Dog is an animal.

Names are weird until you understand what they stand for and realize that sometimes someone need to stand for them.

Today's work is particularly fun that it inspired me to write this appreciation piece for the past 2023-2024.

When you run a program in your computer, a small slice of space and time in your device is under the programmer's control.

Your “now” is some time in my past and my “now” is some time in your past

We've dreamt of creating an intelligence.

While working on machine-tree I found that Rust has a very powerful arsenal when it comes to dynamic programming and hiding type information.

One of the useful arts in type-oriented programming is the utilization of a type system to safeguard business logic.

What I strongly feel to be the essence of robust after years of gory struggle for robustifying software, countless philosophical discussions, and meditations.

Changing a system is easy, keeping it sane is not.

A term for things that gain from stress.

Rust's ownership and lifetime analysis is actually a good heuristic to determine React Components Architecture

Some certain individuals understand everything and make perfect ideas.

Examining control flow and architecture in the form of graphs yields insight into complexity.

Thoughts, questions, ponderings about leadership.

Unconventional collection of tips from working on some projects and interfacing with varying disciplines.

Among a nauseatingly huge number of "modern web UI frameworks" out there, React stands tall.

Complex software can be daunting to author.

Writing a program is all fun and games until someone persists your data.

Up until now, the fastest way information can go from one brain to another is through sound waves, pictures, or moving pictures.

I was introduced to Rust in 2018 and has been enamored since.

I imagine that going passing into a black hole would be like walking into a downward slope.

“Effective people are chronobenders.”

The box is a thought experiment about a technique to overcome a problem with subtypes.