AI is accelerating code generation, but the core engineering craft was never just typing syntax. The enduring moat is judgment: framing the right problem, making system tradeoffs, and applying taste under uncertainty. Great engineers will thrive by becoming stronger product thinkers who decide what should be built, not just how fast it can be built.
Hey, I'm Shiva
This is my personal timeline—micro notes, interesting links, and the occasional long-form dive into whatever I'm building or learning.
No socials, no algorithm. Just a steady stream of things I find worth remembering.
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The future of software engineering is not what you think
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Cognitive Biases
Explore different cognitive biases and how they affect our decision-making.Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. They often arise from our brain’s attempt to simplify information processing, leading to errors in thinking and decision-making. Claude built me this site to explore different cognitive biases and how they affect our decision-making. Check it out!
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From Contributor to Maintainer: The Birth of Endurance Coach
How a PR that sat for two weeks led me to fork Claude Coach and build something new for runners.
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How I Found Claude Coach and Shipped a PR in One Afternoon
Discovering Felix Rieseberg's Claude Coach project and contributing schema validation in a single session.
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Why does your logging suck?
loggingsucks.comIn this article Boris shows us why the current logging practises no longer work well with modern applications, and what we could be doing instead. How to log the right context and eliminate noise from your logs. 1 log per request that has the full picture context is more useful than a lot of low cardinality broken logs.
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The AI Gap is Widening
Build for the Future 2025Just read WIRED’s The AI Gap Is Widening. “Success with AI relies 10% on algorithms, 20% on tech, and 70% on people.” A sharp reminder that it is not tooling but human capability that ultimately defines competitive advantage.
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Trends in AI adoption
How AI is transforming work at AnthropicHere’s a good read on how developers are using Claude Code.
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Anthropic + Bun
www.anthropic.comAnthropic has acquired Bun, now let them cook! They also reached the 1B revenue milestone for Claude Code in just 6 months. Wow!
Here’s the bun’s side of story: Bun’s story I found it more interesting.
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Clean Links
apps.apple.comA free mac app that can monitor your clipboard and automatically clean the UTM tracking parameters from the links that you copy.
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Starwars Intro Creator
starwarsintrocreator.kassellabs.ioThis site lets you create a custom star wars movie style opening video for your own content. You can then preview it and download it as a video.