Prajwal Haniya

It was raining when I looked out from my office window. It stopped for a few minutes, so I quickly put my laptop in my bag and started home on my Resolver. You know what happens to roads once it rains in Bangalore. I took a different road to avoid traffic, unfortunately, there weren’t any roads without traffic. As soon as I reached home, I started to build a tool I desperately needed for weeks.

I have started to lift weights again. I started lifting in my engineering days. I have been consistent; I have not been consistent. Till the day, lifting weights have become easier. It’s been nearly a month, that I haven’t been to gym. I am already seeing the changes after not going to gym. When I lift weights consistently for few months, I can see the changes in my body. I increase weight, the time I am not consistent, I do see changes in my body shape & redcution in my weight.

Software development isn’t what it was done 3 years ago LLMs have completely changed how we develop software. The real joy of coding by hand is taken away. Nobody expects you to code anymore. In fact, they recommend coding via LLMs. LLMs review all my PRs first. I have seen that the amount of learning an individual does has declined. Interest in true software engineering has reduced too. Probably, we all need to find a different way to enjoy software development again.

I started reading a lot of fiction a few weeks back. I have ordered a lot of books as well. In many of the books, I feel the soul is missing. Not all of them trigger an internal emotion. Some books look like they are written just for the sake of selling. Some books do have soul in them. I am reading a book called “The White Tiger”, it’s pretty good.

Science and Math may bring progress. But literature asks waht that progress means for people. I believe literature offers something beyond what science and math can fill. Stories and poems matter deeply. A poem has stayed with me for more than a decade now. I have mentioned it before in a post: https://prajwalhaniya.in/post/rest-recover-restart/ Probably the above blog stayed with me for a good amount of time in my subconscious mind, and probably this helped me name my book as Refresh.

I have started writing my next book.

This time it’s complete fiction.

I am building the fiction from scratch.

Fiction is a kind of self-help category. It’s a self-help category without knowing it directly, though.

You get to learn a lot of things when you read fiction.

Writing fiction also helps you observe things better and cultivate better imagination.

I have ordered around 30 books from different authors on amazon.

The majority are from Indian authors.

I have already received 10 books. 20 more are still to arrive.

Yes, this weekend will be packed with these.

I am writing another fiction book.

Reading fiction helps.

Writing code is not as satisfying as it used to be because of LLMs. Previously, we wrote every function by hand. The person writing it knew what was happening and how the workflow was built. We were better at connecting the dots. Today, every single function, or an entire feature, is built using LLMs. Not everyone knows the details of what is happening. Source code is becoming a black box. Code is harder to read, and everyone is losing debugging skills.

It’s been a while since I blogged here. Over the past two years, I have written a lot of content. Published 3 books.

This blog has been dormant.

I am reviving this blog again. I have all of my content scattered across. I will try to bring it all here.

The start The plan for Goa was going on for a very long time. “Making this trip successful” was one of our shared goals. Everyone played their part to achieve this. Because planning for a Goa trip and actually making it successful are two different parts. We traveled, learned, fought, came together. Many more emotions were expressed and experienced. When you travel you learn more about yourself and others. The four of us, me, MR, Sumukh, and SL started on November 28 from Bengaluru on the night train to Sagara.