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Essays, guides and experiments on AI and software by Gaurang Karia, twenty years an engineer in capital markets. Pull up a chair.
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A few minutes · Weekly Commit #010 Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Season One finale. Nine commits. One question, asked nine different ways. Read the dispatch A cup of coffee · 14 min read Somebody Chose the Butterflies A field study of how two AI companies engineered a feeling, and what a builder can learn from it. Read the essay An evening · 3 chapters, 48 min read The Story of ChatGPT An illustrated series in 3 chapters, told as creative non-fiction, on how ChatGPT came to be. Start the series Something to work on · Practical guide How Should Your Product Feel? A practical worksheet for turning a handful of honest adjectives into coherent decisions across voice, visuals, motion, naming, and product behaviour. Open the guide
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My First Comic Book From waiting for He-Man on Doordarshan to discovering Spider-Man in a comic-book shop. From the workshop
AI Engineer World’s Fair Atlas
An independent field guide to the public talks from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026, mapped into nine currents with curated watch paths and a searchable archive.