Divyakush Punjabi - DEV Community

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

A completed foundation is a starting point, not a finish line

#career #ai #learning #mindset

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

The underrated professional trait: seeing a long thing through

#career #productivity #discipline #mindset

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

End-to-end ownership is a different discipline from building a part

#career #systemdesign #ai #iot

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

Finishing is a skill, and it is rarer than starting

#career #productivity #engineering #discipline

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

Hardware refuses to let you be sloppy — and that is a gift

#hardware #fpga #engineering #career

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

The first internship is where student becomes professional

#career #internship #webdev #productivity

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

The room is the resource: what senior conversations teach you

#career #leadership #mentorship #business

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

Why engineers need commercial awareness, not just technical depth

#career #startup #business #engineering

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

The most valuable professional skill is a system for continuous learning

#career #ai #learning #productivity

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

A hackathon is a compression test for how you actually work

#career #productivity #hackathon #engineering

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

Twelve people, four functions: what running a cross-functional team taught me

#career #leadership #teamwork #management

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

Leading a team to a national ranking taught me more than any codebase

#career #leadership #teamwork #productivity

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

When logic belongs in hardware: determinism and parallelism on an FPGA

#hardware #fpga #embedded #engineering

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

Fixed-timer traffic lights are open-loop control — and that's the bug

#systemdesign #iot #engineering #hardware

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

The overlooked use of LLMs: a translator between humans and hardware

#ai #iot #llm #embedded

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

The best interface is no interface: natural language as the command layer

#ai #iot #llm #ux

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

Self-attention isn't just for language — SASRec for recommendations

#ai #machinelearning #deeplearning #python

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

Sequential recommendation: order is the signal everyone throws away

#machinelearning #ai #datascience #python

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

The prompt is an API contract: structured outputs from LLMs

#ai #llm #python #softwareengineering

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

Semantic search didn't kill keyword search — it needs it

#ai #search #machinelearning #python

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

Optimistic UI: making an app feel instant without touching the backend

#react #webdev #ux #performance

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

Your slow app is probably an N+1 query

#backend #database #performance #fastapi

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

An alarm nobody trusts is worse than no alarm

#machinelearning #ai #iot #softwareengineering

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 23

99% accuracy, completely worthless: ML on rare events

#machinelearning #datascience #ai #python

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Recursion clicks the moment you can see the call stack

#algorithms #computerscience #react #learning

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Real-time isn't fast — it's on time

#systemdesign #iot #performance #computervision

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Authentication is who you are. Authorization is what you can touch.

#backend #security #fastapi #softwareengineering

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

You can't ship a hallucinating model into a regulated domain

#ai #llm #rag #python

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Your RAG is only as good as how you chunked the documents

#ai #machinelearning #rag #python

1

2

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

An order isn't a row — it's a state machine

#softwareengineering #backend #architecture #webdev

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Educational tools deserve production-grade polish

#react #webdev #learning #design

1

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Embeddings are the foundation semantic search stands on

#ai #machinelearning #nlp #python

1

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

The overlooked use of LLMs: playing roles, not answering

#ai #llm #rag #python

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Detection is easy. Deciding what deserves attention is hard.

#computervision #ai #iot #machinelearning

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Domain modeling: nine businesses hiding in one restaurant app

#backend #architecture #fastapi #softwareengineering

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Building a hackathon project like it will actually ship

#machinelearning #iot #career #ai

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Keeping an LLM app responsive with async and Celery

#ai #python #django #backend

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Vector search in production: from notebook to real product

#ai #machinelearning #database #python

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

The modular monolith: microservices' clarity without the tax

#architecture #backend #fastapi #softwareengineering

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

The best engineering is invisible: absorbing complexity for users

#webdev #softwareengineering #payments #ux

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Decoupling everything with a message bus: MQTT in practice

#iot #architecture #mqtt #systemdesign

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Keeping a graphics-heavy React app at a smooth 60fps

#react #threejs #performance #webdev

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Similarity isn't relevance: the hard part of semantic search

#ai #search #machinelearning #python

1

2

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Edge ML: why inference belongs next to the sensor

#machinelearning #edgecomputing #iot #ai

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Training judgment with AI: governance simulations via RAG

#ai #llm #rag #python

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Keyword search is dead: semantic discovery with vectors

#ai #machinelearning #search #python

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Multi-tenancy is a guarantee you enforce in the database

#fastapi #postgres #saas #backend

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

The double-charge bug, and killing it in production payments

#payments #backend #reliability #api

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Shipping a food-delivery marketplace that moves real money

#react #payments #webdev #typescript

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Predicting a rockfall before it happens with sensor fusion

#machinelearning #iot #datascience #ai

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

I built a camera that decides where to look

#computervision #robotics #iot #ai

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Real-time computer vision on a $6 chip

#computervision #iot #edgeai #embedded

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

Big-O you can actually see: making complexity visual

#algorithms #computerscience #react #learning

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 22

People can't visualize data structures — so I built one you can watch

#datastructures #algorithms #react #webdev

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 16

You were trained to write code. You'll spend your career reading it

#programming #career #softwareengineering #beginners

1

3 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 16

'We'll fix it later' is a loan. Here's the interest rate

#programming #softwareengineering #career #architecture

1

3 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 16

Giant context windows were supposed to kill RAG. They did not

#ai #llm #rag #genai

2 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 16

Every AI model is 'state of the art.' The benchmarks are lying

#ai #machinelearning #mlops #genai

3 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 16

Your 'free' AI answer isn't free. Here's the bill

#ai #genai #cloud #engineering

1

3 min read

Divyakush Punjabi

Aug 16

AI passes the bar exam but fails at counting. Why?

#ai #genai #machinelearning #productivity

1

3 min read

1 Week Community Wellness Streak

Writing Debut

Want to connect with Divyakush Punjabi?