did a little experiment over the past four weeks. i have to admit that coding agents are incredibly effective, even when you go full vibeslop mode.

but there's still something deeply uncomfortable about all this.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/programming-language-claude-code/

ran this little experiment in December where i let a local LLM lose on my personal journal entries. the results were ehhhh. still, there's potential here. might repeat this again in December!

https://ankursethi.com/blog/i-used-a-local-llm-to-analyze-my-journal-entries/

can i get "WRITE BAD HAVE FUN" on a t-shirt? maybe this should go on my tombstone.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/write-bad-have-fun/

wrote this about a question i've been considering lately: now that we have free unlimited digital artifacts on tap thanks to LLMs, will it become harder to get published in literary magazines or contribute to open source?

https://ankursethi.com/blog/genai-gatekeeping/

wrote this at IndieWebClub yesterday. i'd have liked to expand on this idea a bit more, but i think i got the point across? i only had 20 minutes lol.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/smallest-possible-change/

it may be heresy, but i really don't like listening to albums

https://ankursethi.com/blog/no-full-albums/

i made this list in less than 30 minutes at IndieWebClub, so idk how accurate they'll end up being. but i'm fairly confident about at least three or four items here.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/tech-predictions-2026/

last week i tried to pay for an API key for Google's Gemini 3 Pro. it turned out to be surprisingly difficult.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/

a long time ago i bought a CD from the internet

https://ankursethi.com/blog/my-first-online-shopping-experience/

after last week's doom and gloom, i'm beginning to feel a lot better this week.

https://ankursethi.com/weeknotes/2025-w45-text-message-bankruptcy/

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