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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Writing indexThe 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: 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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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: 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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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: 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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Three Flagship Phones: Samsung, Apple, Pixel
Living with all three flagship ecosystems simultaneously and what each one gets right
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gravitational Waves Detected
LIGO just confirmed gravitational waves exist, and a hundred years of Einsteinian prediction suddenly became observable reality
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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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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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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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Moto Razr: My Uncle Brought From America
The Motorola Razr and the tradition of uncles bringing impossible gadgets from America
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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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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: 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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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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Remembering Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs passed away on October 5th and the world lost its greatest product mind
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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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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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Why I Want a Masters in Computer Science
An engineering student thinks through the case for grad school in America
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why I'm Starting This Blog
A wide-eyed engineering student discovers the internet and decides to document the journey
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