Vivek's Realtime Ruminations

The LLM Is not the Intelligence There is a peculiar illusion created by large language models.

AI Agents, SaaS, and the Limits of the “Replacement” Narrative The recent global re-rating of SaaS and IT services stocks-driven by fears of AI-led disruption-deserves a more measured examination.

I have been seeing a growing number of posts on LinkedIn and X claiming that AI-generated, “vibe-coded” applications are replacing SaaS products that enterprises have relied on for years.

Upgrading Raspbian Pi from Bullseye (11) to Bookworm (12) I run a couple of Raspberry Pis at home for various tasks — DNS servers (Unbound), Pi-hole, and similar utilities.

Your own personal Mock HTTP server Today web development invovles writing API and consuming APIs.

Understanding WebAssembly WebAssembly (Wasm) is a technology that has completely changed the way I think about developing and running code on the web.

The iron triangle or the project industry and project management is the well known connection between Scope, Time and Budget.

When AI becomes mainstream Imagine a world where AI is ubiquitous.

This Python eats Exceptions Python like any other modern language has exception management.

Why is there no IST timezone?

Benchmarking home DNS resolution Typically we tend to use our ISP’s DNS servers on our home networks.

Exploring size of Binaries created by Go Go is the modern programming language from Google.

My experiments with PiHole Lockdown makes us try a few things.

How do you verify your company SSL certificates One of the challenges of running your own startup is the number of SSL certificates that you have to purchase and manage.

Creating Secure Passwords As more services go online, everything needs a unique password (the keyword there is ofcourse unique!).

An API based access to official masterdata for India India as a country is rapidly going digital.