Technology that moves fast

Every few months a new coding agent shows up claiming it's 'agentic' now, and the pitch always sounds the same: it can plan, it can use tools, it can fix its own bugs. But if you actually pop the hood on the good ones — Claude Code, SWE-agent, OpenHands, Devin — you find something almost anticlimactic sitting at the center: a bash shell

Programming Languages Aren't Languages — They're Compression Schemes. What Chess, Math, and Code Have That English Doesn't. The Hidden Cost of Treating Code Like Natural Language.

Library is the store of facts. A good librarian doesn't need to have memorized every book on the shelves. They know how to navigate an unfamiliar question, break it into its parts, figure out where to look, connect two ideas that live in different sections of the building, and hand you an answer even if they've never been asked that exact question before.

This is Part 2 of a series on building an open-source Indian address parser.