A personal journal · Est. MMXXIV

Divy’s

Musings of a wandering mind — programming, philosophy, life

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Tagged: Engineering

8 pieces

The pieces

  1. 01

    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.

  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

    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.

  4. 04

    Attention Span Is All You Need

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

  5. 05

    The Control Plane Mindset: A Proactive Approach to Software Development

    Think like infrastructure, build like an engineer.

  6. 06

    Engineering Leaders: Why You Need to Get Your Hands Dirty

    The best engineering leaders never stop coding.

  7. 07

    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.

  8. 08

    Don't code fancy when business is starting.

    Keep it simple when you're just getting started.