When Engineers meet AI
Kannan KalidasanAn engineer writing about Open Source AI, Software Agents, Physical AI and AI Engineering for builders who lead and leaders who build.
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The Token-Aware Engineer
A few years ago, software engineers spent most of their time writing code. Today, we increasingly spend our time generating it.
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Whether you’re using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, or another coding agent, the workflow...
JDBC to ADBC: A Technical Deep Dive
For decades, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) have been the undisputed standards for connecting applications to databases. They provided a unified API that abstracted away the complexities of vendor-sp...
How Distributed Inference Actually Works
I’ve been experimenting with local models recently, particularly Qwen3 Coder running through MLX on Apple Silicon. My current setup looks like this:
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MacBook Pro M5 Pro - 48 GB Unified Memory
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Qwen3 Coder runnin...
Dense vs MoE Models Explained
Yesterday, I ran out of tokens in OpenAI Codex while oxidizing parts of my Python codebase into Rust. It was around 11:30 PM, and I had to wait another two hours for the limits to reset.
That moment felt strangely familiar.
Just like how...
Measuring Local LLM Performance Across Two Macs
I’ve been using a Mac Mini (M1, 2020) for a while now, both for personal use and for running local models. Recently, after getting a MacBook Pro (M5 Pro), I found myself curious about how much of a difference the new machine would actually...
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