Sharat VisweswaraWriting on software, ideas, and whatever else.https://sharatvisweswara.blog/Your AI Coding Agent Is Only as Good as Its Weakest Variablehttps://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/ai-agent-weakest-variable/https://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/ai-agent-weakest-variable/Four things have to align for an AI coding agent to work. Miss one and you will waste time fighting the tool.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Productivity Is About More Than Writing Code Fasterhttps://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/ai-productivity-beyond-code/https://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/ai-productivity-beyond-code/The real productivity win from AI isn't writing code faster — it's reducing the archaeology so developers can think.Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWield AI Like a Scalpel, Not a Swordhttps://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/ai-scalpel-not-sword/https://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/ai-scalpel-not-sword/Every line of code is a place for bugs to hide. AI changes the economics — but it is leverage, and leverage is asymmetric.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTEconomics of AIhttps://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/economics-of-ai/https://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/economics-of-ai/Is AI actually making intelligence “cheap” — or just making it look cheap for a while?Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTHunting Coroutine Deadlocks with CodeQLhttps://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/hunting-couroutine-deadlocks/https://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/hunting-couroutine-deadlocks/We recently used CodeQL to do a static analysis pass over our Kotlin codebase, looking for a specific coroutine anti-pattern: calling runBlocking from inside a running coroutine. This post walks through the problem, the query we wrote, the debugging journey to get it working, and what we found.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTLocal LLMs Are More Accessible Than You Thinkhttps://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/local-llms-more-accessible/https://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/local-llms-more-accessible/Running a language model on your own machine used to be limited to an elite few with powerful hardware and technical expertise. Not any more!Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTSanskrit Poetry and Mathhttps://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/sanskrit-poetry-and-math/https://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/sanskrit-poetry-and-math/A Sanskrit scholar’s obsession with short and long syllables led, centuries before Europe caught on, to a number pattern you already know by heart.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTTwo Ways to Use LLMs in Your Producthttps://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/two-ways-to-use-llms/https://sharatvisweswara.blog/blog/two-ways-to-use-llms/A diagnostic for recognizing when LLMs actually solve your problem.Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT