Personal homepage. https://grandimam.com/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:07:54 +0000 If you are building APIs in Python that handle a lot of concurrent I/O, the standard answer today is often asyncio or a framework built around it. As a result, application code increasingly looks like this: async def get_user(): user = await repository.get_user() retu... Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://grandimam.com/posts/does-python-still-need-to-be-async-first/ https://grandimam.com/posts/does-python-still-need-to-be-async-first/ I have been doing my goal-setting, KPIs, and feedback assessments through LLMs. The hardest part was designing the scoring mechanism. When HackerRank open-sourced their Hiring Agent, I wanted to understand how they had solved the same problem and what biases their rubric encod... Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://grandimam.com/posts/how-hacker-rank-scores-engineers/ https://grandimam.com/posts/how-hacker-rank-scores-engineers/ Suppose there are two engineers. One (EA) makes $200K; the other (EB) makes $50K. EA was a strong performer and EB solidly met expectations. Now the CEO wants to update the company’s performance metrics, so he adds salary as a factor in how engineers are evaluated. What do y... Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://grandimam.com/posts/distorted-reality/ https://grandimam.com/posts/distorted-reality/ I started my career in the late 2010s, and I have had a front-row seat to the growth of the industry that has given me everything: software engineering. Looking back over the last decade, I have mixed feelings about some of the calls I made. And I am seeing the same patterns ... Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://grandimam.com/posts/repricing-of-software-engineering-labor/ https://grandimam.com/posts/repricing-of-software-engineering-labor/ The 80/20 of LLM Costs Here is how I have come to think about LLMs after 8+ months of heavy agentic coding (200K+ lines, 30 PRs a month). If you are already strong in your tooling, a large chunk of the agentic advantage disappears. The model moves away from compensating for g... Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://grandimam.com/posts/speed-is-cheap-capability-is-expensive/ https://grandimam.com/posts/speed-is-cheap-capability-is-expensive/ Note: This post is a work in progress and will be updated over time. Software Engineering as we see it today is slowly transforming itself towards a more Agentic workflow. This is not new; there was a time where software was packaged and manually SCP’d into individual ser... Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://grandimam.com/posts/writing-effective-skills/ https://grandimam.com/posts/writing-effective-skills/