• First two weeks of April are usually the hottest weeks in Bangalore. Its less dry than the 2025 but only one light shower. The mangoes outside my house are growing nicely though.
• Its been three weeks since I’ve written code by hand (except for a few tweaks). I am using Claude and sometimes qwen cli. Claude is definitely much better but qwen is quite capable at well scoped tasks.
• I don’t think AI is replacing programmers anytime soon but sure making me dumber. It is becoming harder to focus, read docs and engage with a linear conversation. Also when I ran out of the credits, I had to push myself to open my editor and look at the code and I found it alarming.
  • My TLDR summary of AI is the following. It generates pig-iron and call it steel. You can build a fun Choo-Choo train with it over the weekend but please don’t build a proper train with it that carries hundreds of people. But can you resist?

Reading list

• Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip
• Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in vicious ‘civil war’, say researchers
• USB for Software Developers