Hi! I'm Shreyas. I'm a Product Manager working in scientific publishing. I like trying to understand the world, building things that improve it, and talking about it on the Internet.
I like creating things—essays, websites, scripts, products. Anything which is positive sum, and impactful.
Writing is thinking. It's something I deeply enjoy. 10 years from now, or a 100, It might probably outlive me. This is an attempt at that posterity. I write about what I'm building, what I'm learning, and the ideas I'm exploring:
My agentic engineering workflow has changed in the recent past, the models are better, there is much more freedom in choosing the harness, selecting the abilities and actions you could provide. - Pre-planning, pre-idea, pre-everything - The first chat with the agents - The first chat on the terminal - Setting up the Opencode environment - Doing Light research, deep research - Model choices while...
You’ve heard of TDD, and more recently also SDD (spec driven development)… but have you heard of HDD — aka Hammock driven development? I recently came across a video gifted to me by the YouTube algorithmic gods with a catchy enough title that sounded more like a “honest bait” than a clickbait, it was titled: “Hammock driven development”, talking about an alternate approach to software...
I’ve updated my writing process and workflow for 2026, and the main reason I am revisiting it is because the process itself has started to change in a meaningful way. Writing is no longer just about producing an essay. It has become a feedback loop where each draft I produce also acts as training data. I’ve naturally been interested in the gap between what AI generates and how I would naturally...