Faraaz Ahmad

Given the sale of Windsurf to OpenAI for $3bn, will more people be building coding agents or less?

Over the past couple of nights & weekends, I've been building an agentic, semantic search engine for codebases.

This is a very pre-alpha preview of it searching the svelte codebase.

LMK if you'd like to try it!

Action produces information

I understand now why people say you need to have a bias for action.

IMO calling someone a genius is an insult to your own intellect, you can just do things.

Generating code documentation using AI: Yay or nay?

(I'm seriously considering doing this)

There's too much content, so I built an AI knowledge assistant. How and why I built an AI assistant that lets me consume or discard content much quicker.

I built something fun:

faraazahmad.github.io/blog/blog/kn...

Created some organic art for my blog post in mspaint

It was this really popular calendar app. cron.com

It's now Notion Calendar.

Suddenly everyone is an expert on art and copyright law

I cba man.

They also acquired Cron btw

Eternally struggling between becoming a better engineer and bootstrapping a micro-SaaS

Hours of debugging only to realise YouTube API doesn't let you access captions of videos that aren't yours

It's all fun and games until you need to build distributed transactions capable of rolling back all the changes in case of a failure.

My favourite device to use against procrastination and overthinking, just flip it and get to work!

Works surprisingly well for me.

Sunk cost fallacy will drag you into the ground

Just completed a 2 hour football sesh, most exhausted I've been in a while!

Can't wait to do it again tbh

Ok inertiajs kinda slaps

Not every interesting issue can get a blog post, sometimes you just need to keep shipping

In my effort to combat the brainrot, I might have stretched myself too thin.

How do you handle multiple personal projects or interests at the same time?

If I work on one project for too long, i get bored and eventually stop working on it.

If I have too many, I don't get anything substantial done in either of them.

I learnt not to do this a couple years ago, same goes for "I'll be honest".

Using LLMs to generate unit tests:

Yay or nay?

The Dark Forest, book by Cixin Liu. Part of the book series used as inspiration for the Netflix show, Three Body Problem.

Season Two

Thank you for sharing this! I thought "three body problem" is a fully self contained story, I was confused when book one ended on season one

Elixir guard clauses are kinda fun!

Does the elixir type checker give you warnings if you don't handle all types of responses?

Elixir/Erlang devs, what does "let it crash" code look like in production systems?

Erlang VM provides such amazing primitives for building distributed systems people have no idea!

They're missing out fr

DynamoDB is an amazing system!

I'm a big fan of how they handle versioning using "vector clocks", and node failures using Hinted Handoffs.

Paper link: www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon...

Why are you moving to Stripe only to never use it again? /s