Siddharth Chintamaneni
Blog posts and projects by Siddharth Chintamaneni
Latest posts
Timeline: AI, AI and AI
Starting a timeline to capture the ambitious statements made by researchers and leaders about AI predictions like "AI will take over your jobs" or "We'll reach AGI/ASI". The idea isn't to make fun of these predictions, but to document how the conversation has evolved overtime. From cautious optimism to urgent warns the narrative keeps shifting and I think it's worth preserving that timeline.
Project Pile: Spending Time with 100 Virtual Characters
Today morning, my friends were telling me how building personal projects has never been this fun using coding agents. In the evening, another friend is telling me how the Moltbook founder has been burning $20,000 every month to keep the agents running (unverified) and how it is such a troll and funny thing to do. If you are not following tech news, Moltbook is a social media platform for AI…
howcooked.me
I recently vibe coded a project and published it at howcooked.me.
[Stale] Start of the series on locking in the Linux kernel
Synchronization is something that I'm always interested in, maybe because it belongs to this weird list of algorithms where there is no one right answer and you can always say "it depends." There are lots of cool things that you can reason about when implementing a new locking mechanism, such as performance and fairness—similar to congestion control and scheduling algorithms.
Tales of ETXBSY error in exec
I started exploring and understanding the problems caused by deny_write_access() in the exec syscall by following the issue thread in the mold linker raised by my labmate and friend Jinghao Jia.
Why Blog?
For fun.
BPF Tailcalls
This is an old blog post that I wrote when I was in grad school. I moved it from my old website to here. Some of the details mentioned in this blog post might be outdated.