A brain you query, not a document you load
My agent’s memory kept growing until it filled the very room it was meant to think in. The fix was to stop loading it.
Read the essay →I’m Vishak — a builder, and more often a learner, happiest in the parts of a problem I haven’t cracked yet. AI has handed engineers a kind of sorcery; some days it lets me feel like a magician, though really I’m just learning the trick like everyone else. This is my journal — a quiet, honest place for what I’m making and learning, kept in order, away from feeds and algorithms deciding what you see.
June 2026
The loop you never wrote
If you live inside AI tools, you’ve been riding a world-class agent — you just never wrote the loop. Here’s the whole thing, and it’s smaller than the noise.
Read the essay →Stopped confusing recall with residency
Spent a year keeping everything my agent knew in front of it at all times, and wondered why it kept running out of room to think. The fix was one idea: total recall and total residency are not the same thing. The mind got quieter and sharper overnight.
A tool you trust is just a tool you’ve watched fail safely.
AI doesn’t make me a 10× engineer. It makes me a 1× engineer who actually finishes.
May 2026
Kannada has a word — ತಾಳ್ಮೆ, taalme — for patience that isn’t passive. Most of building is just that.
April 2026
Most of my best decisions this year were things I chose not to build.
Shipping is a sleep aid. Nothing quiets the mind like a thing that’s finally live.