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Kumar Ashish
  • Debugging external systems with AI

    Using AI tools to debug complex distributed systems like Mimir by building a CLI tool that lets LLMs query metrics and identify bottlenecks.

  • I was recently involved in work around load testing Mimir for reads. We were facing missed iterations eventually, even though the infra wasn't showing any bottlenecks. At this point, we start wonderin...

  • I finally caved in and subscribed to Claude Max. I cheaped out and went for the $100 subscription, and it seems to be too much for me. I have become the bottleneck now, with so much intelligence at my disposal thanks to Opus. I made a lot of mistakes immediately post getting the subscription, first of those was getting it to build a two player chess application which takes advantage of Apple's Multipeer connectivity. The problem was that, I couldn't hoard any learnings in the process. I am looking forward to hoarding more and more things I can do as per Simon Willison's suggestion.

    march
  • I have been going through https://simonwillison.net/ and I can see a consistent practice of documenting prompts being used. I feel it should help you get better at prompting, in addition to being a good log. I am going to suggest doing this, but I am unsure of what kind of prompts need to be committed. Surely the initial prompt around the what needs to be built and how it needs to built should be a commit. I will suggest and see where we go.

    march
  • Just set up a thoughts section on my blog. Think of it as a micro-blog — short notes, observations, and random musings that don't warrant a full post.

    march
  • AI is Expensive

    Reflections on the real cost of AI-assisted coding and how it forces smarter usage patterns.

  • I didn't realise how much I was spending on my Cursor queries because we had 1000 requests/month provisioned for us. Now that we have moved to a pay-per-query model, every query I make has started to ...