That Random Guy 👋

Software Engineer II at Softway - I build things, break things, and pretend it was "part of the plan."
This blog is my little internet notebook where I write about:
System Design, Backend Engineering, and AI Agents - basically anything that makes my brain go "wait… how does that work?"
No guru energy here. Just learning in public, sharing notes, and occasionally over-explaining stuff so future-me doesn't suffer.
If you like tech, chaos, and simple explanations — welcome.
Featured
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Beyond Bigger Models: The Three Scaling Laws Redefining AI's Future
AI progress isn't just about bigger models anymore. Three scaling laws—pre-training, post-training, and test-time "long thinking"—are driving a massive compute boom. The next bottleneck isn't algorithms. It's infrastructure and power.
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4 Surprising Realities of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)
A grounded look at Artificial Superintelligence that separates hype from reality, exploring how far we are from ASI, what it would take to build it, the transformative promise it holds, and the subtle but serious risks of misaligned goals.
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The Coming Wave: When Intelligence and Life Become Programmable
AI isn’t the whole story. A far bigger shift is underway - one where intelligence and life itself are becoming programmable, accelerating faster than we know how to control.
Recent Posts
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Lock It or Lose It: Avoiding Race Conditions in Distributed Systems
A clear, intuitive explanation of race conditions in distributed systems and how pessimistic locking helps prevent them, covering locks, timeouts, and fence tokens to ensure data consistency and avoid stale updates.
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Learning from mistakes - Revert/Reset the branch in right way.
A clear, intuitive explanation of how to revert/reset the branch in right way.
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Build a Serverless Plugin
A concise introduction to extending the Serverless Framework with custom plugins, focusing on the core concepts behind hooks, commands, and lifecycle events.
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What is NAT?
A clear explanation of Network Address Translation (NAT)