An independent engineering publication
SO THAT
HAPPENED.
Engineering, AI, systems
& questionable decisions.
A collection of things that seemed
like a good idea at the time.
In focus / 001
AI / Agents / Systems
The Model Is Only Half the System
Why reliable AI systems depend as much on the harness around the model as the model itself.
Selected writing.
All writing ↗Engineering / Tradeoffs
Reversible Decisions: Because Not Every Decision Needs a Funeral
Match the weight of the process to the cost of changing your mind.
Distributed Systems / Reliability
I Added a Queue and Everything Got Worse
The request got faster. The system got a lot more interesting.
Builds.
The workbench ↗Things I built before asking whether I should.
Shipped / ENGINEERING NOTEBOOK
A deliberately boring publishing stack
Building this corner of the internet with Astro, MDX, and very little infrastructure.
Open the notebook ↗Notes.
All notes ↗Small things worth remembering.
Retries aren’t reliability.
Your cache is part of your architecture.
Hi, I’m Vidya.
I build software, systems, and occasionally problems that require software and systems to solve.
A little more about me ↗