Starting a blog

I’ve been using LLMs and agentic development tools extensively over the past year. It has raised the bar for the kind of projects I can take on and how quickly (if at all) I can finish them. I’ve also felt that with this pace of working, it is very easy to forget the things you’ve learned along the way. Things don’t stick like they used to. Previously, I might have thought about a single problem for weeks at a time, while now this is often measured in hours. Some of the migrations I did for Tadoku recently come to mind.

I’ve felt the need to write down some of these learnings and thoughts. I have to put it in my own words, and not exclusively rely on the language models to present the ideas to me. There’s a desire to remember and deeply understand all the problems I’m solving, so I can take those learnings with me, with or without LLMs. For the same reason, I’m trying to keep these posts pretty raw, so I can look back and see what I was thinking. Writing things down also gives me a post to link to when I need to bring up similar approaches in the future.

That’s why I’ve decided to start writing a blog about all the random things I’m working on, and the thoughts that come along with this. I first need to build the habit of actually writing consistently, which is something I’ve never done in my life before. Keeping the posts unpolished and raw (without heavy editing) keeps them relatively low effort to write, which should help with this. So don’t expect this to be super polished at first.

Here goes nothing!