Random Thoughts

FIRE stands for Financially Independent Retire Early. There is a growing trend of people trying to achieve FIRE before the age of 40...

Original Tweet - https://x. com/sarmag77/status/1987482331683140014 Back in 2019, I was in charge of hiring 5-6 engineers for a new team...

Original Tweet - https://x. com/sarmag77/status/1952147743935521188 Something similar happened to me when I was working at a startup right out of college...

Original Tweet - https://x. com/sarmag77/status/1948641731966369923 Back in 2018-2019, Go experienced a spike massive adoption with popular projects like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform...

When I was new to the tech world and didn't have much experience with production systems, my main focus was to build fast. That was the way I would measure how good a developer is...

I just realised that I completed a decade in the tech industry this month. 17th May 2015, was my joining date in my first ever big boy job...

Original Tweet - https://x. com/sarmag77/status/1938429909338362348 The best kind of interview is the bug squash or pair programmer round where both the interviewer and the candidate team up to solve a common problem...

I have worked in early stage, late stage startups and bigger companies as well. "FAANG in your 20s often makes your skills deteriorate"...

If you have read the Alamanack of Naval Ravikant, then you must have come across this famous quote It doesn't take money to make money, it takes leverage to make money. Retaining something after reading something is just as important and somehow, this quote along with few other quotes of his, has stuck with me...

So it's been a week since I have been trying to use and compare AI code editors and tools extensively to integrate into my coding routine. Claude Code has been the most successful, but it's way too expensive compared to Cursor or Windsurf...