<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Shubham Lad</title><description>My Personal Portfolio</description><link>https://shubhamlad.in/</link><item><title>The Lost Art of Slowing Down</title><link>https://shubhamlad.in/blog/the-lost-art-of-slowing-down/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shubhamlad.in/blog/the-lost-art-of-slowing-down/</guid><description>Slow Living is being consciously aware of what you are doing, what your surroundings are, and where you are headed in life.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:04:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building the Black Box: Why Trusting AI Agents is an Architecture Problem</title><link>https://shubhamlad.in/blog/can-ai-agents-be-trusted/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shubhamlad.in/blog/can-ai-agents-be-trusted/</guid><description>We are moving from Chatbots to Agents. This shift from &apos;conversation&apos; to &apos;agency&apos; unlocks immense value, but it fundamentally alters the trust equation. When software can spend money, write code, and delete files, &apos;trust&apos; is no longer a warm sentiment, it is a critical engineering requirement.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>From the Void to the World: The Universe’s Long Journey from Simplicity to Complexity</title><link>https://shubhamlad.in/blog/from-void-to-the-world/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shubhamlad.in/blog/from-void-to-the-world/</guid><description>A scientifically grounded narrative of cosmic evolution, from the birth of space-time to the formation of Earth</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Beyond Bigger Models: The Three Scaling Laws Redefining AI&apos;s Future</title><link>https://shubhamlad.in/blog/beyond_bigger_models/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shubhamlad.in/blog/beyond_bigger_models/</guid><description>AI progress isn&apos;t just about bigger models anymore. Three scaling laws—pre-training, post-training, and test-time &quot;long thinking&quot;—are driving a massive compute boom. The next bottleneck isn&apos;t algorithms. It&apos;s infrastructure and power.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>4 Surprising Realities of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)</title><link>https://shubhamlad.in/blog/surprising_realities_of_ASI/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shubhamlad.in/blog/surprising_realities_of_ASI/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Coming Wave: When Intelligence and Life Become Programmable</title><link>https://shubhamlad.in/blog/the-coming-wave/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shubhamlad.in/blog/the-coming-wave/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:04:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lock It or Lose It: Avoiding Race Conditions in Distributed Systems</title><link>https://shubhamlad.in/blog/lock-it-or-lose-it/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shubhamlad.in/blog/lock-it-or-lose-it/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:56:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Learning from mistakes - Revert/Reset the branch in right way.</title><link>https://shubhamlad.in/blog/git-reset-right-way/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shubhamlad.in/blog/git-reset-right-way/</guid><description>A clear, intuitive explanation of how to revert/reset the branch in right way.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:02:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Build a Serverless Plugin</title><link>https://shubhamlad.in/blog/build-a-serverless-plugin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shubhamlad.in/blog/build-a-serverless-plugin/</guid><description>A concise introduction to extending the Serverless Framework with custom plugins, focusing on the core concepts behind hooks, commands, and lifecycle events.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 09:40:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is NAT?</title><link>https://shubhamlad.in/blog/what-is-nat/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shubhamlad.in/blog/what-is-nat/</guid><description>A clear explanation of Network Address Translation (NAT)</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:34:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>OSI Layers Part 1</title><link>https://shubhamlad.in/blog/osi-layers-part-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shubhamlad.in/blog/osi-layers-part-1/</guid><description>Let&apos;s find out how OSI layers work</description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2023 11:14:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transpilers and Polifills</title><link>https://shubhamlad.in/blog/transpilers-and-polifills/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shubhamlad.in/blog/transpilers-and-polifills/</guid><description>A beginner-friendly explanation of transpilers and polyfills in JavaScript, covering why they exist, how they work, and how they help developers use modern features while maintaining compatibility across browsers.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 01:10:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Let&apos;s Begin</title><link>https://shubhamlad.in/blog/lets-begin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shubhamlad.in/blog/lets-begin/</guid><description>First Post let&apos;s begin the journey</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2023 12:17:20 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>