A personal journal · Est. MMXXIV

Divy’s

Musings of a wandering mind — programming, philosophy, life

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From river to token

An interactive plate, with no prose in it at all — five figures tracing one prompt from the river and the grid to a single generated token. Type your own question and watch it tokenised, attended to, cached and sampled.

AI, Engineering

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  1. 01

    Would you install it if I called it code?

    A SKILL.md is instructions your agent follows with your permissions. Fourteen of the thirty-one that ship by default can rewrite your config or read every transcript you've written.

  2. 02

    Your stale docs are now a production incident

    Humans smell a bad doc and route around it. Agents read it and ship it.

  3. 03

    We Watched Knowing

    Kohli, Rohit, Rahane, Pujara, Ashwin, Jadeja — the side that made Test cricket exciting again, and made us believe before a ball was bowled.

  4. 04

    New to Code? Don't Skip the Boring Part

    Advice for undergrads in the age of AI — learn one language properly before you lean on the machine.

  5. 05

    Attention Span Is All You Need

    Coding got commoditized. The new skill is conducting agents like an OS schedules threads.

  6. 06

    Economies of Token

    Why your $200 personal Claude plan feels faster than the enterprise seat your company pays for.

  7. 07

    The Importance of Good Design in Open Source Projects

    A project's website is its handshake with the world.

  8. 08

    The Control Plane Mindset: A Proactive Approach to Software Development

    Think like infrastructure, build like an engineer.

  9. 09

    This seems to be Google's time to play catching game to Microsoft

    The tables have turned in the tech giant race.

  10. 10

    Engineering Leaders: Why You Need to Get Your Hands Dirty

    The best engineering leaders never stop coding.

  11. 11

    A bit rusty, you are Rust

    Reframing Rust's limitations as opportunities.

  12. 12

    Don't Break the Bank: Your Cloud Expenditure is a Window into the State of Engineering

    What your cloud bill reveals about your engineering practices.

  13. 13

    Good in Algorithms doesn't necessarily make you a good developer.

    Why algorithmic skills are just one piece of the puzzle.

  14. 14

    Don't code fancy when business is starting.

    Keep it simple when you're just getting started.

  15. 15

    Encrypt Your Data Smartly in AWS

    Choosing the right encryption strategy for your security requirements.

  16. 16

    Photon: The Swiss Army Knife for Deployments

    How we built an internal tool that transformed our deployment workflow.