Anuradha Weeraman

@anuradha

Technologist, Software Architect & Founder. #SoftwareFreedom advocate & @Debian developer.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Anuradha Weeraman
@anuradha
Sep 28, 2025
The tech industry glorifies success stories, but our failures are the best teachers. That's why we design for failure, not despite it. The best systems aren't the ones that never fail. They're the ones that fail so gracefully, users never notice. Shared some battle scars at AWS
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Anuradha Weeraman
@anuradha
Aug 5
Plan 9 may not have "made it" as an operating system, but many of the ideas it pioneered have made it to modern popular operating systems.
Plan 9 from Bell Labs, the little OS that could
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Anuradha Weeraman
@anuradha
Apr 23
The NYT ran a piece on 'jagged intelligence' last week (link below) which references the example from the post below. The implications are serious for anyone building reliable systems on top of modern LLM-based AI. NYT (paywalled): nytimes.com/2026/04/15/tec…
Anuradha Weeraman
@anuradha
Mar 20
LLMs live on a “jagged” intelligence curve: they can crush Olympiad-level math and still fail at reasoning tasks a bright 10-year-old would breeze through. forbes.com/councils/forbe…
Anuradha Weeraman
@anuradha
Mar 20
LLMs live on a “jagged” intelligence curve: they can crush Olympiad-level math and still fail at reasoning tasks a bright 10-year-old would breeze through.
Council Post: 'Jagged Intelligence': The Illusion Of Reasoning In Modern LLMs
From forbes.com
Anuradha Weeraman
@anuradha
Mar 9
Everyone can build a prototype now. Describe it, and it appears. That's real, and it's genuinely exciting. What comes after, is where things usually go wrong. Learn the fundamentals. Then learn the new tools. Engineer systems. In that order.
The Prototype Isn't the Product
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