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On doing hard things
It’s Thursday. I’ve been at this laptop since 8am — writing code for work in the morning, debugging something I didn’t expect to break, then switching to personal research in the evening, trying to understand how evals work in AI systems. Now it’s night and instead of stopping I’m writing this essay. If you asked… — read more
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On Taking Criticism Without Breaking
Growing up, you get used to the noise. Feedback, criticism, advice you never asked for—it comes from everywhere, but especially from the people closest to you. I used to take all of it literally. Every comment, every suggestion, I’d stop and ask, “Why do you say that?” Not defensively—I genuinely wanted to understand. But all… — read more
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A Decade of Big Moves, Small Steps, and Lot of Patience
A few nights ago, I realised that in the next few months, it will be 10 years since I completed my Bachelor’s in Computer Science. That calls for some retrospection. Like so many of us when we’re young and think we have it all figured out, I was convinced that by 25-27 I’d be settled—married,… — read more
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Abhirami Pillai 