2026.02.277 min read
Introducing Loki's Log: A Newsletter for AI Builders
Launching a newsletter focused on AI agents, open source tooling, and the craft of building autonomous systems
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Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
2026.02.128 min read
The asklokesh Ecosystem: How All My Projects Connect
A walkthrough of every public project I maintain and how they form a connected system for AI-powered software engineering
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2025.12.288 min read
2025: The Year I Went Full Loki Mode
A year-end reflection on leaving the corporate world, building open source full-time, and what it means to bet your career on autonomous AI systems
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2025.06.208 min read
From No Phone to Flagships to Not Caring: My Full Mobile Journey
Two decades of phones, from borrowing my mom's Nokia to obsessing over specs to realizing none of it matters the way I thought it would
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2024.12.307 min read
2024: The Year AI Agents Became Real
Looking back on 2024, the year AI agents went from predictions to production and everything I shipped along the way
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2024.11.086 min read
The 2024 Election and the AI Misinformation Challenge
The 2024 US presidential election tested our ability to handle AI-generated misinformation, and the results are sobering
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2023.12.308 min read
2023: The Year LLMs Ate the World
Looking back on a year that transformed AI from a research curiosity into a force reshaping every industry
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2022.12.286 min read
2022: The Year AI Broke Through
Looking back at a year that saw AI go from research curiosity to mainstream phenomenon, while I published two books and watched the world change
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2022.11.026 min read
Losing Interest in Phones Too
After losing my passion for cars earlier this year, I am realizing the same thing has happened with smartphones
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2022.07.226 min read
Losing Interest in Cars
With a full Tesla fleet in the household, the novelty of cars has faded in a way I did not expect
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2022.07.156 min read
James Webb's First Images Put Things in Perspective
NASA just released the first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope, and they are redefining our view of the universe
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2022.06.156 min read
From Strangers to Founders: Published
My second book this year tells the immigration story that shaped everything, from arriving in America as a stranger to building a career in tech
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2022.04.285 min read
Elon Buys Twitter: The Most Chaotic Tech Deal in Memory
Elon Musk just agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion, and the way it happened is as remarkable as the deal itself
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2022.02.275 min read
Russia Invades Ukraine: Technology in Modern War
The invasion of Ukraine is showing us in real time how technology has fundamentally changed the nature of warfare
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2022.01.215 min read
Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard
The biggest gaming acquisition in history just happened, and it says more about the future of tech than about gaming
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2021.12.287 min read
The Flip Phone Revival: Galaxy Z Flip and Nostalgia Engineering
Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip3 brought the flip phone back from the dead, and using it feels like a conversation between past and future
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2021.11.187 min read
Writing From Strangers to Founders
I am writing a book about the immigrant journey from arriving in America to building a life, and the story is more personal than anything I have published
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2021.10.316 min read
Facebook Becomes Meta: Visionary or Desperate?
Mark Zuckerberg just renamed his company and bet everything on the metaverse, and I have questions
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2021.09.086 min read
The Flagship Phone Rotation: Samsung, Apple, and Pixel
I rotate between Samsung, Apple, and Google flagships every year, and the camera comparisons alone justify the habit
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2021.07.236 min read
Billionaires in Space
Bezos and Branson went to space within days of each other, and the discourse tells us more about Earth than about orbit
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2021.06.186 min read
The Tesla Fleet Is Complete
With the Model X, every current Tesla model is in the driveway, and the journey to get here taught me more about obsession than cars
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2021.03.146 min read
The NFT Craze: Digital Ownership or Tulips?
Beeple just sold a digital artwork for 69 million dollars, and I genuinely cannot tell if this is revolutionary or insane
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2020.12.298 min read
2020: The Year Everything Changed
A year that began with a mysterious virus in Wuhan ended with the world permanently altered, and the acceleration of trends that will define the next decade
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2020.11.137 min read
Apple M1: ARM Beats x86
Apple is about to ship ARM-based Macs, and if the rumors are right, this will be the most significant architectural shift in personal computing since the move from PowerPC
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2020.11.067 min read
The US Election and Social Media's Reckoning
The 2020 US election exposed the fundamental tension between platform scale and platform responsibility, and there are no easy answers
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2020.07.306 min read
Tesla Model Y: My Third Tesla
Taking delivery of a Model Y and reflecting on how Tesla went from a curiosity to the default choice for anyone paying attention to the automotive industry
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2020.03.186 min read
The World Went Remote Overnight
COVID-19 just forced the largest remote work experiment in human history, and cloud infrastructure is the only reason it is working at all
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2020.01.256 min read
A Virus in Wuhan: How Technology Responds
Reports of a novel coronavirus are emerging from China, and the tech response is already revealing how the world handles crises differently in 2020
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2019.12.288 min read
The 2010s: A Decade of Cloud, Mobile, and Early AI
Reflecting on a decade that transformed technology and my career, from Linux administration to cloud infrastructure leadership
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2019.10.036 min read
Tesla Model S: The Second Tesla Joins the Fleet
Adding a Model S to the garage alongside the Model 3 and what it means to go fully electric
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2019.04.137 min read
The First Photo of a Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole in M87, and the technology behind it is as remarkable as the science
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2019.01.186 min read
Three Flagship Phones: Samsung, Apple, Pixel
Living with all three flagship ecosystems simultaneously and what each one gets right
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2018.10.297 min read
GitHub Is Now Microsoft's
Microsoft closed its acquisition of GitHub on October 26 and the open source world is processing what this means
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2018.03.157 min read
I Bought My First Tesla Model 3
Taking delivery of a Tesla Model 3 and experiencing what it means when your car is a software platform
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2018.02.096 min read
SpaceX Falcon Heavy: The Most Inspiring Launch I Have Ever Watched
SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy two days ago and I cannot stop thinking about what it means for engineering
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2017.03.105 min read
Day One at a Major Entertainment Company
Starting a new chapter as a cloud architect at one of the world's largest entertainment enterprises
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2016.08.186 min read
Why I Bought a BMW 540i
On falling in love with a twenty-year-old German sedan and making my first big purchase in America
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2016.07.096 min read
Pokemon Go and the Power of AR
Pokemon Go launched five days ago and the entire world seems to be outside catching virtual creatures
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2016.05.206 min read
Leaving Texas A&M, Entering Industry
After years of research and coursework, I am closing the grad school chapter and stepping into the industry
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2016.02.145 min read
Gravitational Waves Detected
LIGO just confirmed gravitational waves exist, and a hundred years of Einsteinian prediction suddenly became observable reality
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2015.04.277 min read
Apple Watch Launches Wearables into the Mainstream
The Apple Watch arrived and with it a new computing form factor that raises fascinating questions about human-computer interaction
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2015.01.207 min read
First Week at Texas A&M Research Lab
Starting my MS in Computer Science, navigating a new country, and stepping into research assistant life
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2014.12.187 min read
Accepted to Texas A&M: America, Here I Come
I got my acceptance letter for MS in Computer Science and my life is about to change completely
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2014.01.107 min read
Moto Razr: My Uncle Brought From America
The Motorola Razr and the tradition of uncles bringing impossible gadgets from America
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2013.12.198 min read
From No Phone to Nokia 6230
Growing up in an era without mobile phones and the day my uncle brought home a Nokia 6230 with a camera
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2013.06.096 min read
NSA PRISM: The Internet's Innocence Dies
Edward Snowden just revealed that the US government has been surveilling internet communications on a massive scale
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2012.12.277 min read
2012: The Year the Cloud Became Real
A year-end reflection on how 2012 marked the turning point when cloud computing stopped being experimental and became the default
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2012.08.207 min read
Raspberry Pi and the Maker Movement
The Raspberry Pi Model B shipped earlier this year and it reignited something I forgot I had: the joy of tinkering
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2011.10.086 min read
Remembering Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs passed away on October 5th and the world lost its greatest product mind
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2011.08.276 min read
Steve Jobs Resigns: End of an Era
Steve Jobs just resigned as CEO of Apple, and it feels like the end of something important in technology
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2010.12.106 min read
Instagram Launches and Mobile-First Becomes the Default
A photo sharing app called Instagram just proved that mobile-first is not a compromise, it is a strategy
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2010.04.056 min read
Why I Want a Masters in Computer Science
An engineering student thinks through the case for grad school in America
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2010.01.305 min read
iPad Changes the Game, Or Does It?
Apple just announced the iPad and the internet cannot decide if it is revolutionary or a giant iPod Touch
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2009.12.177 min read
The Decade Ends: From Dial-Up to Cloud
Looking back at 2000-2009, a decade that took us from dial-up connections to cloud computing, and changed everything
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2009.06.107 min read
Windows 7 RC: Microsoft Gets It Right
After the Vista disaster, Microsoft releases the Windows 7 Release Candidate and it actually feels good
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2008.10.256 min read
Android Dream: Google's Phone OS
Google made a phone operating system and it is open source and my brain will not stop thinking about the implications
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2008.09.056 min read
Chrome Launches: Browsers Will Never Be the Same
Google released a web browser and it is shockingly fast and I have opinions about this
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2008.06.125 min read
iPhone 3G and the Mobile Web
Apple just announced the iPhone 3G and I think the way we use the internet is about to fundamentally shift
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2008.01.174 min read
Why I'm Starting This Blog
A wide-eyed engineering student discovers the internet and decides to document the journey
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