system bashing

The JIRA Company of Australia wants to make Browsers ?

Trying to make sense of Atlassian acquiring Browser Company

Sep 4 • 

Arnav Gupta

3

August 2025

The More Things Change: AI Edition

Navigating the AI Wave Through the Lessons of Microchips and the Cloud

Aug 17 • 

Arnav Gupta

4

June 2025

Why are Neural Networks architected that way in the first place?

Getting a deterministic programming brain of a software engineer to intuit the model of neural networks.

Jun 2 • 

Arnav Gupta

9

May 2025

The Five Waves of Tech: Riding the Tides of Technological Evolution

And the answer to what kind of tech companies should you join in 2025 if you want to 10x your career.

May 22 • 

Arnav Gupta

4

We live in a 'dunkocracy'

How Social Media Point-Scoring Is Reshaping Global Politics

May 6 • 

Arnav Gupta

2

'Clean Architecture' is the most inane thing in the software engineering world

Everyone who I have seen to be a religious follower of Uncle Bob's methods, has 99% times turned out to be an extremely incompetent engineer.

May 3 • 

Arnav Gupta

7

March 2025

Are you impressed with LLM generated code yet?

It might be about how good a programmer you are

Mar 12 • 

Arnav Gupta

3

February 2025

Information Overload

Written by AI, read by AI. Just forwarded by humans.

Feb 23 • 

Arnav Gupta

4

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January 2025

The Local Optimisation Problem in Large Organisations

The inherent complexity in large organisations resigns the individuals in it to optimise for local metrics in absence of visibility and/or influence…

Jan 8 • 

Arnav Gupta

7

November 2024

The Media Format Wars

Centralising by format vs centralising by domain/audience

Nov 28, 2024 • 

Arnav Gupta

7

October 2024

There's no going back from the "Copilot Life"

The most killer GenAI app for me so far has been using it as Copilot inside my IDE and Obsidian for writing and coding.

Oct 29, 2024 • 

Arnav Gupta

12

4

September 2024

Running Engineering Teams productively - having both slack and being understaffed

The key to running engineering teams at the optimum efficience is by both having some slack, as well as always feeling like you have less people for the…

Sep 1, 2024 • 

Arnav Gupta

5