Featured essay
Somebody Chose the Butterflies
A field study of how two AI companies engineered a feeling, and what a builder can learn from it.
The Reading Room
Long-form essays and reflections.
Long-form writing on AI, software, systems, creativity, and the human side of building things that matter.
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My Claude Code Origin Story
The inside story of Claude Code, and how a tool I kept at a distance became the one I now find hard to work without.
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The Day a Rocket Company Rang a Bell
How a company that nearly died on a Pacific atoll became the largest IPO in history, and what it now wants to build above our heads.
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Why are we going back to the moon now?
What a StarTalk explainer revealed about why we really went and why we're going back
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Wrapper vs. Scaffolding vs. Harness: What's Actually the Difference?
Three words everyone's using. One distinction that actually changes how you build.
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The Long Game: Why You Should Watch "The Thinking Game"
How video games, a London lab, and decades of patience led to a Nobel Prize.
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The Abstraction That Changed Everything: Martin Fowler on Why AI Is Different
I wanted to understand AI's impact on software engineering. I found something more fundamental.
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Quantum Entanglement in AI: Why Everyone Investing in Everyone Isn't a Bug
I was looking for competition. I found interdependence. It's more elegant than I expected.
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What Got You Here Can Take You Forward - If You Know What to Keep and What to Change
Principles Don’t Expire. Methods Do
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Why We Keep Going Back to the Same Movie 🎬
Why do we love watching the same movie again and again, even when we already know exactly how it ends?
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🎶 Why Spotify’s Lossless Audio Matters and How Sound Becomes Math
From concert halls to code, the hidden story behind digital sound quality
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AI Is Your Mike Ross. Here’s How to Be Harvey Specter
Why Your Most Valuable Skill in the Age of AI Is Not Intelligence, but Wisdom
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How a Netflix Movie introduced me to 200 year old Romantics
My Oxford Year and John Keats
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Walking Among Giants: Lessons From Cambridge
Sharing my experience from Trip to Cambridge
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What Superman Can Teach Us About Allyship
When you think of Superman, you think of strength.
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How ChatGPT Became Our Cognitive Sidekick
We haven’t just built smarter tools. We’ve gained a new kind of mind.
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Alan Turing: The Man Who Made AI Thinkable
Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician, logician, and cryptographer.
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Authenticity
Because who you are matters!
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F1 the Movie: A Full-Throttle Cinematic Experience
Hans Zimmer’s music. 4DX immersion. Racing dreams. A film that pulls you into the heart of Formula 1, even if you’ve never watched a race before.
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First Principles thinking
Learnings from Jensen Huang
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Welcome to Engineered By Gaurang
Engineer by mind, storyteller by soul.