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TLDR; Software development, as it has been done for decades, is over. LLM coding tools have changed it fundamentally for the better or worse. 
 
 
 “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” — Linus Torvalds, August 2000
MCP (Model Context Protocol) [1] 
 is all the rage now. Introduced by Anthropic about four months ago, it has already been accepted as an open standard and has seen widespread adoption, including by major AI companies and prominent AI tool makers. There is even a directory [2] 
 listing over 13,000 MCP implementations. Technically, it is a very simple API spec that facilitates RPC-like…
Along came DeepSeek-R1 [1] last week, an open-source large language model (LLM) reportedly rivaling OpenAI’s top offerings, sending shockwaves through the industry and generating much excitement in the tech world. It apparently started as a side project at a Chinese hedge fund before being spun out. Its efficacy, combined with claims of being built at a fraction of the cost and hardware…
TLDR; A conceptual and technical framework for resource discovery on the WWW using decentralised, open, machine-readable indexes as the building block, free of eroding quality and gatekeeping by BigSearch™ and BigPlatform™ , whose goals are not quality, but revenue.
The nth-order effects of the recent CrowdStrike fiasco [1] [2] [3] will unfold over time. As it stands, it is apparently the single biggest global “tech outage” ever, which has already disrupted everything from airlines to railways to hospitals to financial systems amongst numerous others—globally.
In an earlier post (2021) , I argued that much of the “powered by AI / ML” labelling and marketing out there was bogus and disingenuous. That AI / ML technologies were getting commoditised to the point of being as simple as pip install , where most organisations would not need to do any serious R&D to be able to use these technologies, enough to warrant the claim “Powered by AI /…
It took me several seconds to parse the casual quip “But, aren’t you folks web2?” . I probed further and they continued— “Isn’t Zerodha [1] web2? Why don’t you convert it to web3?” . For the next few minutes, I struggled to explain how technologies, processes, people, regulations, laws, industry, and the entire legal and societal foundation that underlie…
“It’s 2022. Why hasn’t someone done it already!?” , I find exclaiming frequently when stumbling upon things and ideas that are relatively simple and so obvious that they should exist, but for some reason, don’t. It is frequently about software, occasionally about physical things, and once in a while, about an organisation that focuses on a certain cause that really…
IndiaFOSS 2.0 [1] , the second edition of the conference organised by the FOSS United Foundation, of which I am a part of, was held in Bengaluru on the 23rd and 24th of July. Previously named IndiaOS , the first edition that ran in January 2020 was an experiment that turned out to be a small, nice gathering of ~100 people in a small hall in a corner of JP Nagar, a residential area in South…
A whole new way of seamlessly “hydrating” and building “reactive” webpages, proclaim the dozen new Javascript frameworks that offer slightly different ways of manipulating DOM; new stacks for generating static webpages from templates; new ways of deploying “no-code” apps to “serverless edges”; memory-safe languages that enable error-free programs;…
I read this article ( “Open Source” is Broken by Xe) written in the aftermath of the unfortunate log4j2 fiasco . The author discusses a pertinent problem that has plagued the FOSS (Free and Open Source) world ever since large for-profit corporations started their widespread consumption of FOSS, ever since countless “unicorns” raised infinite amounts of funding on valuations…
An email I had sent in response to a survey on the use of “AI / ML” and the “AI-first mindset” in our organisation and in the industry was shared on social media [1] [2] sparking surprising amounts of interest. I did candidly state the simple fact that we haven’t come across any big problems that warrant any specific “AI / ML” solutions in our organisation…
I have a small Vue 2 project (an admin UI for dictmaker) that I created with vue cli six months ago. Today, I picked it up again to finish it, and started out by doing a yarn upgrade . Of course, blindly upgrading all dependencies is never a good idea, but this is a tiny WIP project with just one dependency that I added, and there is a constant stream of GitHub dependabot alerts every month…
In the Indian startup circles, Atmanirbhar (self-reliance) is the word of the year. Technology startups of all shapes and sizes, “unicorns” and non-unicorns have incorporated the tri colour and the Made in India label into their brand messaging and advertising campaigns—marketing prowess and valuations built on top of rapid innovation enabled by Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) created all…
AI is a contentious term whose mainstream interpretation refers to not one particular thing, but to a broad category encompassing a wide variety of concepts, techniques, and technologies—all eventually working towards the common goal of eliciting “intelligent" behaviour in computers.
The Indian startup ecosystem has taken shape and exploded in the last few years, and so have the countless stories surrounding them. Unsurprisingly, lessons of unsuccessful ideas and attempts haven’t gotten as much precedence as successful counterparts.
A sci-fi short story inspired by Isaac Asimov’s “ The Last Question ”. 
 Munic hurried along the dimly lit corridors of the C-wing of the Neutrino lab. It was past midnight, and he had received an alert on his phone sent by one of the monitoring terminals. His palms and brows were trickling sweat despite the unusually cold night. His off-white Oxford shirt was unevenly buttoned and…
കഴിഞ്ഞ മൂന്നു വര്ഷങ്ങളില് എണ്ണം 80-ശതമാനത്തിലധികം
കുറഞ്ഞ അണ്ണാരക്കണ്ണന്മാര് ഇപ്പോള് വംശനാശ ഭീഷണി
നേരിടുകയാണ് (മാതൃഭൂമി, 15 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്). കേരളത്തിലെമ്പാടും
ഒരു കാലത്ത് പതിവ് കാഴ്ച്ചയായിരുന്ന അണ്ണാന് ഇല്ലാതാകുന്നു
എന്ന് കേള്ക്കുമ്പോള് ആദ്യം നടുക്കം, പിന്നെ സങ്കടം :(