Stories by lalitmaganti

Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code

Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²)

Syntaqlite: High-fidelity devtools that SQLite deserves

Why AI Coding Advice Contradicts Itself

How I estimate work as a staff software engineer

Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers

Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail

Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail

Diagnosing performance with dotnet-trace and Perfetto

Understanding SQL Parsers

Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is Your Type?

2025 was an excellent year for this blog

Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What Is an Object?

The Dictator's Handbook and the politics of technical competence

State of the Server 2026

They have to be able to talk about us without us

A Month of Chat-Oriented Programming

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs

Don't Build an Audience