# Prakash Suresh

> Curious mind. Finds happiness in building things and writing.

Personal blog by Prakash Suresh. Essays on software, AI-assisted development, engineering craft, and lessons from building things.

## Blog posts

- [Life Is Long Enough](https://spraka.sh/blog/life-is-long-enough/): Jeff Dean helped build the systems beneath Google. His calendar still made room for yoga, football, and a 30-minute meeting with an intern.
- [Antarctica Is the Largest Desert](https://spraka.sh/blog/the-opportunity-was-one-question-away/): A fifth-standard boy corrected my geography. Another family used one plain AI question to find an opportunity for their son's book.
- [Companies & OSS](https://spraka.sh/blog/companies-and-oss/): Kailash Nadh, Zerodha, Cloudflare, and Shopify show the discipline behind a costly choice: inherit, extend, fork, or build a production system from scratch.
- [Companies & Languages](https://spraka.sh/blog/companies-and-languages/): Jane Street, Ericsson, NeXT, Google, Meta, Roblox, and Apple show when a company can justify years of investment in a programming language.
- [Craft Does Not Retire](https://spraka.sh/blog/disclosureday/): A director near 80 and a composer in his nineties shipped a 2026 movie. Work stays alive when you enjoy the process and keep learning.
- [Doom Is Cheap. Mastery Is Not.](https://spraka.sh/blog/doom-is-cheap/): Why doom scenarios are easy to imagine and flourishing scenarios are hard, and what the May 2026 tech layoffs show about the work that actually matters.
- [The Math Doesn't Exactly Math](https://spraka.sh/blog/the-math-doesnt-exactly-math/): A lifelong Vijay fan tries to explain an election result that defies explanation.
- [How LLMs Answer](https://spraka.sh/blog/how-llms-answer/): How LLM inference works step by step: prefill, decode, the KV cache, sampling, tool use, and the engineering that makes it economical.
- [How LLMs Get Built](https://spraka.sh/blog/how-llms-get-built/): Inside the months-long pipeline that turns trillions of words of text into a deployable LLM: data, tokenizer, pre-training, alignment, and shipping.
- [Understanding LLMs: The Map](https://spraka.sh/blog/how-llms-work/): From raw text to streaming response - every step of how large language models are built and how they process your prompts.
- [How Programming Languages Actually Work](https://spraka.sh/blog/how-programming-languages-work/): From the text you type to the binary that runs - the full compiler pipeline, type safety ladder, and patterns every developer should know.
- [Naval on Health: The Priority That Orders Everything Else](https://spraka.sh/blog/health-naval-ravikant/): Naval's framework for making health non-negotiable - from concentric circles to daily practice
- [A Third Path, Paathuklam](https://spraka.sh/blog/a-third-path-paathuklam/): Sridhar Vembu says programmers should consider alternative livelihoods. He's right about the disruption - but how you sit with this moment matters more than what the moment is.
- [Naval on Happiness: A Practical Philosophy](https://spraka.sh/blog/happiness-naval-ravikant/): Naval's framework for training happiness - from desire as a contract to peace as the goal
- [The Jevons Paradox of AI](https://spraka.sh/blog/jevons-paradox/): A documentation project that grew into an MCP server, a competitive landscape analysis, and a realization about what AI actually does to software demand.
- [The Hidden R&D Giants of Tamil Nadu](https://spraka.sh/blog/hidden-rnd-giants-of-tamil-nadu/): A fan buying experience led me to discover local companies doing world-class engineering that most of us don't know about.
- [The River That Came Back](https://spraka.sh/blog/the-river-that-came-back/): A city forgot its river was a river. Then it remembered.
- [The Leader Makes the Difference](https://spraka.sh/blog/the-leader-makes-the-difference/): Two stories from different worlds - a startup ecosystem and a Christmas carol competition - that reveal the same truth about leadership.
- [Two Tales of Marketing: A Tourist Trap on the Way to Mysore Zoo and a Sweet Surprise in Madurai](https://spraka.sh/blog/two-tales-of-marketing/): What a Diwali trip taught me about the extremes of marketing - from deception to delight.
- [590x More Test Code Than Production: Is SQLite Insane or Genius?](https://spraka.sh/blog/sqlite-testing-590x/): SQLite has 92 million lines of tests for 155K lines of code. A Twitter debate made me rethink what balanced testing really means.
- [Hello World](https://spraka.sh/blog/hello-world/): Welcome to my blog! This is where I'll share my thoughts, learnings, and things I'm building.

## Profiles

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cvcnsprakash/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/chillprakash)

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