Writing on Python, concurrency, engineering, and faith. https://blog.grandimam.com/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:51:43 +0000 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://blog.grandimam.com/posts/how-hacker-rank-scores-engineers/ https://blog.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://blog.grandimam.com/posts/distorted-reality/ https://blog.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://blog.grandimam.com/posts/repricing-of-software-engineering-labor/ https://blog.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://blog.grandimam.com/posts/speed-is-cheap-capability-is-expensive/ https://blog.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://blog.grandimam.com/posts/writing-effective-skills/ https://blog.grandimam.com/posts/writing-effective-skills/ Let’s build a simple ASGI app - one that returns “Hello, World!” for all requests and paths. async def app(scope, receive, send): if scope["type"] == "http": await send({ "type": "http.response.start", "status": 200, "headers": ... Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.grandimam.com/posts/hello-world/ https://blog.grandimam.com/posts/hello-world/ ASGI stands for Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface. It is the interface (or protocol) that defines how a server hands off requests to an application and how that application responds. The server part maybe confusing for some, so lets define it. A server is an application o... Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.grandimam.com/posts/foundation/ https://blog.grandimam.com/posts/foundation/