Archive - Aparna’s Substack

Month 4 Update: Settling In and Tech Scene Observations from Bangalore

Four months in, lots going on

Jul 17 •

June 2025

Month 3 career break update

TL;DR: Moved back to Bangalore one month ago, craving rootedness, enjoying consulting and studying, and embracing a restful period.

Jun 5 •

May 2025

The Track Changed, and I Didn’t Even Notice: A Personal Journey Through Burnout and Rebuilding

Navigating Burnout, Recovery and Rebuilding

May 10 •

Months 1 and 2 - An update on my meanderings and my break

TLDR: Spent three months across three countries, found refreshing approaches to tech networking, observed contrasting AI philosophies, reconnected with…

May 6 •

April 2025

An Experiment in Life Design: Embarking on a Career Break

For anyone considering a career pause or life redesign.

Apr 3 •

February 2025

Knowledge cutoff dates in LLMs: Why they matter for AI content

Accidentally uncovering knowledge cutoff dates in LLMs

Feb 20 •

Tokens and Why They Matter

Better titled as: Why do I need to swipe my credit card to build with AI?

Feb 3 •

January 2025

An experiment in AI prototyping - coaxing AI assistants to create a full-stack application

My attempts to build a full-stack application using different AI code generation tools

Jan 23 •

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