The Hacker's Playbook

How a 17-Year-Old Product Designer on our Team, an AI Pair Programmer, and Good Questions Uncovered Software Engineering Wisdom.

What Happens When Youth, AI, and Mentorship Collide in the Enterprise.

May 27 • 

Aditya Patange

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March 2025

Comparing Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT 4o for AI Assisted Development with GitHub CoPilot

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Preview surpasses GPT 4o at a simple task! Explore the process of writing an image resizer in Python entirely via Prompt Engineering…

Mar 8 • 

Aditya Patange

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December 2024

Prototyping 101: Talk Is Cheap, Show Me the Code

Prototyping is not about being right; it’s about learning quickly.

Dec 10, 2024 • 

Aditya Patange

November 2024

Building ChatGPT / LLM Wrapper Products Is Not Trivial (Part 1)

Building production-grade ChatGPT / LLM (Gen AI) wrapper products has it's own unique set of challenges. A deep dive into the "considerations" to keep…

Nov 30, 2024 • 

Aditya Patange

TDD Exercise: Build a Fuzzy Search Library! 🔎

Fuzzy search finds matches even when the search term is misspelled or not exactly correct.

Nov 25, 2024 • 

Aditya Patange

Tests: A Gateway Into System Design

Automated tests tell you interesting facts about your design. Pay close attention to them as you add and refactor tests on a software system.

Nov 24, 2024 • 

Aditya Patange

July 2024

Communicate. That's how you make remote work productive for your organization.

Remote work entirely boils down to communication! Let me explain why. 📲

Jul 15, 2024 • 

Aditya Patange

Type-Driven Development is Awesome!

Types as first-class citizens offer several advantages that lets you build more robust software. Let's explore.

Jul 12, 2024 • 

Aditya Patange

Naming a commit well is as important as the change itself.

Linus Torvalds says that the name of a commit is as important as the change reflected by it. Here's why I agree. ✍️

Jul 11, 2024 • 

Aditya Patange

Dealing with "Boring" and "Low Challenge" Tasks as a Software Engineer

Boring and low-challenge tasks can prove to be valuable opportunities to explore the "Zone of Automation". 🤖

Jul 10, 2024 • 

Aditya Patange

What is the useCallback() hook in React and when to use it?

The useCallback() hook is a useful feature in React that let's you memoize functions so that they're not recreated unnecessarily. 📞

Jul 7, 2024 • 

Aditya Patange

Things to do when you join a new Company as a Software Engineer

The list of things to do is generally endless when you join a new company, but these are some of the basic things you should do. 🙋🏼

Jul 7, 2024 • 

Aditya Patange