Notes and essays from Vivek Maswadkar.https://resume.maswadkar.com/enWed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTVivek Maswadkarhttps://resume.maswadkar.com/writing/why-this-place-exists/https://resume.maswadkar.com/writing/why-this-place-exists/A personal site should hold more than a résumé. It should show how the work, ideas, ambitions, and life around them connect.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTVivek Maswadkar2026-07-14T00:00:00.000ZTruthful desktop and mobile collage of the chapter-led personal portfolioReal portfolio captures showing the desktop and mobile publishing experience.Vivek MaswadkarPersonal webIntentionshttps://resume.maswadkar.com/writing/bat-ball-coding-abundance/https://resume.maswadkar.com/writing/bat-ball-coding-abundance/When access to the scarce tool once decided who made the rules, what changes when software creation becomes abundant?Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTVivek Maswadkar2026-07-15T00:00:00.000ZEditorial still life pairing a cricket bat and ball with a coding instrument to contrast access with practiced craftEditorial illustration for this essay's analogy about tools, access, and practiced craft.Generated editorial artwork for this essayAI-assisted codingCraftAbundancehttps://resume.maswadkar.com/writing/from-treasure-to-tool/https://resume.maswadkar.com/writing/from-treasure-to-tool/A Jurassic Park scene becomes a way to think about how developers’ sense of craft changes when AI can generate the code.Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTVivek Maswadkar2026-07-15T00:00:00.000ZEditorial still life of a fossil-like claw shape transitioning into a practical hand toolEditorial illustration for the essay's treasure-to-tool metaphor; it is not a film still and depicts no copyrighted character.Generated editorial artwork for this essayAI-assisted codingSoftware developmentFuture of workhttps://resume.maswadkar.com/writing/llms-cost-saving-paradox/https://resume.maswadkar.com/writing/llms-cost-saving-paradox/A reflection on the Cobra Effect and why optimising a visible AI cost can create less visible costs elsewhere.Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTVivek Maswadkar2026-07-15T00:00:00.000ZEditorial still life of a GPU meter, blank receipt, and looping cable representing total-system AI costEditorial illustration of the total-system cost paradox; the blank receipt intentionally makes no current pricing claim.Generated editorial artwork for this essayLLM economicsSystems thinkingCosthttps://resume.maswadkar.com/writing/teaching-ai-responsibly/https://resume.maswadkar.com/writing/teaching-ai-responsibly/A teacher-and-student analogy for understanding how smaller, specialised language models can learn from broader systems.Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTVivek Maswadkar2026-07-15T00:00:00.000ZEditorial diagram of a teacher guiding a smaller specialist model through selected learning materialEditorial illustration of the essay's teacher-to-specialist-model analogy, not a literal model-training diagram.Generated editorial artwork for this essayAI educationSmall language modelsResponsible AI