2025 In Books
Seasons changed and so did my shelf. Indeed. May and July were two of my toughest months in 2025. I fell short of my target of 12 books. But I finished 9! They spoke to me, supported me, transported me. Here’s to more stories in 2026.
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Welcome to the garden of Anurag Bhandari the developer, a generalist software engg.
This little space on the web is where I write about my coding (mis)adventures, share bookmarks, and scribble short notes to help my future self (and you?) learn something useful.
🎩 Hats I have worn over the years:
Full-Stack Engineer, Engineering Manager, Frontend Architect, Applied R&D Technologist, Linux
Developer, OSS Founder, and "the guy who'll fix my computer".
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🤔 Notes (15)
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Hire Dan
Humbled by Dan Abramov’s resume. It could simply have been 5 words: “The most famous React guy”. Instead, he described his experiences — including his time at Meta working on React — just like any other candidate. Love his cherry-picked pull requests from each role.
🔖 Bookmarks (93)
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Your Job Is Not Your Career
Add intentional ‘thinking time’ to your workdays. Use it for reflecting on hurdles encountered, measuring the impact of a completed task, and planning for future value creation. Otherwise, all you are doing is keeping the lights on rather than investing in your growth: good for your company, bad for your career.
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A pragmatic guide to LLM evals for devs
TIL about Evals, the automated testing analogue to traditional unit/integration tests. Since running LLMs (for evaluation) in CI pipelines isn’t cheap, it’s good to prioritize test scenarios based on top buckets of real-world user issues.
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The Trillion-Dollar “Why”
Dr. Gandhi’s piece confirms my prophecy about the AI dust settling by late 2025 or start of 2026. 100% automation shouldn’t be the goal. Human knowledge is priceless (goal mine as per Dr. Gandhi). Rather than replace humans with AI, augment agents with humans for the best outcomes. Good for business, good for humanity.
