Vijay Anant

Why Is AI Code Suddenly “Hard to Debug”?

Everyone says AI code is hard to debug. What they’re really admitting: nobody remembers how it’s supposed to work.

Aug 19 • 

Vijay Anant

Agile in Theory, Waterfall in Interviews

We value iteration, collaboration, and feedback. But when it comes to interviews, we still expect people to design massive systems in one go. What are…

Aug 11 • 

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July 2025

Wait for the Abstraction to Earn Its Place

We’ve been taught to fear duplication. But duplication isn’t the enemy, premature abstraction is. This post explores how abstraction should emerge, not…

Jul 29 • 

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Teaching the AI to Code (and Accidentally Becoming Better Engineers)

All those good habits we used to skip — clear naming, structured breakdowns, documenting intent — are coming back. Not because we finally got…

Jul 24 • 

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The Real Bottleneck Isn’t Code

If you're not building the same thing in your minds, you'll spend even more time fixing what shouldn't have broken.

Jul 23 • 

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June 2025

Driving AI Code: Why Test-Driven Development is Essential in the LLM Era

LLMs promise coding speed, but at what cost to quality and security? This essay reveals why Test-Driven Development (TDD) is the indispensable…

Jun 20 • 

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May 2024

Think Entities, Not Procedures

What makes ReST better than RPC? Why hypermedia is crucial for ResT?

May 24, 2024 • 

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April 2024

Looking Back At RPCs

A Programming Abstraction for Distributed Systems

Apr 17, 2024 • 

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February 2024

Modularity Through The Ages

The new catchphrase is “Modular Monoliths.” Monolith is supposed to be modular to begin with. This prompted me to think maybe we have come too far in…

Feb 29, 2024 • 

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December 2023

YAGNI, Debt, and Adaptability

Building for Tomorrow without Sacrificing Today,

Dec 22, 2023 • 

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On Consulting

I was always fascinated by the consulting work. For me the appeal was flexibility in schedule more than money. I specially loved the ability to shape my…

Dec 11, 2023 • 

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Polymorphism, Dynamic Dispatch, and Visitor

Let's revisit a classic example from our early days of object-oriented programming. We will design a system that allows applying scaling and rotation to…

Dec 4, 2023 • 

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