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17 bugs in 10 weeks from AI security scanning(lalitm.com)
2 points by lalitmaganti 4mo ago|0 comments
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by lalitmaganti 5mo ago
I do want to clarify my point of view since there does seem to be some interpretation which I didn't entirely anticipate (wholly my mistake): 1. I'm not claiming that every interaction with a user needs to be turned into a full
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Don't answer the first question(lalitm.com)
96 points by lalitmaganti 5mo ago|52 comments
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How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026(seangoedecke.com)
6 points by lalitmaganti 5mo ago|0 comments
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by lalitmaganti 6mo ago
I also wrote recently [1] about Exponential Search [2] which is another algorithm if you need to repeatedly binary search in an array where the elements you're searching are themselves are sorted. It allowed for an 8x speedup in our wo
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by lalitmaganti 6mo ago
> How many of 500 tests were actually reviewed/tested and found good? Essentially ~all of the tests were found to be useful but in a more "smoke test" capacity i.e. they provided good "basic" coverage but it was
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by lalitmaganti 6mo ago
> It's a huge mistake to start building with Claude without mapping out a project in detail first, by hand. I agree with you in theory but in my opinion, it doesn't work so well when you don't even know what exactly you ar
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by lalitmaganti 6mo ago
> With so much waste and not a single example of the "brilliant at giving you the right answer to a specific technical question" In my opinion, "giving me a better understanding for the architecture of the project" is
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by lalitmaganti 6mo ago
> https://sqlitebrowser.org/ sqlitebrowser.org is cool but it's not the sort of developer tools I'm talking about. As I clarify in the side notes, I'm looking for a formatter, linter, LSP, not an IDE. >
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by lalitmaganti 7mo ago
When I refer to "extracting sources from the SQLite codebase" a big part of that was indeed referring to compiling Lemon and executing it against a custom implementation of parse.y [1]. The problem comes from how SQLite's u
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by lalitmaganti 7mo ago
I'm very well aware of parse.y, if you look into the syntaqlite code, you'd find it's a critical part of how the whole "source extraction" mentioned in the article works [1] To be clear when I say "formal speci
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Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code(seangoedecke.com)
21 points by lalitmaganti 7mo ago|3 comments
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Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²)(iev.ee)
260 points by lalitmaganti 7mo ago|70 comments
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Syntaqlite: High-fidelity devtools that SQLite deserves(lalitm.com)
2 points by lalitmaganti 7mo ago|0 comments
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Why AI Coding Advice Contradicts Itself(anup.io)
3 points by lalitmaganti 9mo ago|0 comments
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How I estimate work as a staff software engineer(seangoedecke.com)
10 points by lalitmaganti 9mo ago|2 comments
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Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers(seangoedecke.com)
102 points by lalitmaganti 9mo ago|28 comments
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Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail(lalitm.com)
3 points by lalitmaganti 9mo ago|1 comments
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Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail(lalitm.com)
2 points by lalitmaganti 9mo ago|0 comments
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Diagnosing performance with dotnet-trace and Perfetto(dfamonteiro.com)
1 points by lalitmaganti 9mo ago|0 comments
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Understanding SQL Parsers(nishchith.com)
2 points by lalitmaganti 9mo ago|0 comments
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Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is Your Type?(lukefleed.xyz)
1 points by lalitmaganti 10mo ago|0 comments
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2025 was an excellent year for this blog(seangoedecke.com)
2 points by lalitmaganti 10mo ago|0 comments
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Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What Is an Object?(lukefleed.xyz)
2 points by lalitmaganti 10mo ago|0 comments
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The Dictator's Handbook and the politics of technical competence(seangoedecke.com)
6 points by lalitmaganti 10mo ago|2 comments
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State of the Server 2026(theorangeone.net)
5 points by lalitmaganti 10mo ago|0 comments
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by lalitmaganti 10mo ago
Was an interesting ready but sad to see that there is nothing special for matching or restructuring tagged unions (beyond the special cased optional type). That's one of the things from Rust I miss the most in my day to day work with C
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by lalitmaganti 10mo ago
Given the comments on this post and the other Beancount one in the frontpage, I definitely think there's enough I want to say for at least one if not two followups. Stay tuned!
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by lalitmaganti 10mo ago
I'm talking about apps similar to Mint and YNAB. Specifically I used to use an app called Yolt (which was shut down) and then was on an app called Emma for a bit. I'm sure GnuCash would also work just fine but ultimately it's
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by lalitmaganti 10mo ago
Interesting! You might want to try Tabula in that case. For that type of "obfuscated" PDFs I've come across, it does well, it's just a lot slower to run than pdf2text.

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