thoughts posts
- A view of 2026 from 1927 4 minutes
Metropolis, a 1927 sci-fi movie, is set in a dystopian capitalist society where a whole city is owned by Joh Frederson. The story revolves around his son, Freder Frederson, wandering around the city having an adventure. To put it simply. It’s about class struggle. Maybe faith. At one point, I thought it’s an anti-capitalist movie and at another point, I thought it’s anti-communist… but maybe it’s both or neither.. it’s just a movie.
I started it out of curiousity to get a perspective on what people thought of as super futuristic in 1927. The movie is said to be set in 2026. The year I’m currently writing this in. It’s 18th January, 2026. It feels a little surreal that people 100 years ago dreamed of this time and made stories about it. I’ll go over the technology of Metropolis (as much as I could understand it) in this blog article.
- Lessons from LLMs and Life 9 minutes
“The unpredictability in life is what makes it interesting”
I’m Mahesh Bansod. A software engineer. I love building stuff for the sake of building it.
Building software has never been so simple - type a prompt and boom you got a working interactive system!
I really love this era. I have been programming since years now, and I still love to. I find the most joy in building software when I’m programming it as opposed to when I’m prompting it, but it’s wonderful to see applications come to life as I type in English what I want!
There’s one thing I struggled with though while working with an LLM and that is deterministic output.
If you do the same prompt a second time, it is sure to give you a totally different output.. and maybe the second time it may not even work when the first time it did!
This “non-deterministic”ness of it all has been making me draw parallels to life.
- On Emotions 10 minutes
It’s been a while since I’ve started feeling. I’m not sure when it started. Probably around when I was 1-3 years old? Who knows!
Anyway, with my experience of about 27 years, I present to you my thoughts on some emotions I’ve experienced while living and feeling as a person sorted in no particular order.
Feel free to tell me about your own experience with emotions. I love being human and understanding how others experience this world.
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This article contains my raw thoughts on the book “Project Hail Mary” by Andy Weir.
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Being a human, you gotta do what humans do. You walk, you eat, you communicate. Human stuff.
You’re walking down a street and notice a dog, it’s cute. You want to say hi to it, and so you move towards it. It moves towards you. You’re both moving towards each other but wait.
why is the dog barking? why does it look angry? what did I do wrong?
The dog comes at you faster giving you lesser time to process. The dog knows batman is invincible with prep time, so it removes the prep time. - Random thoughts (2?) 5 minutes
Years ago, maybe in 2018 or 19, on a random afternoon outside the college canteen, a friend posed me a simple question that has been on my mind a lot these years. The question was, what if you give it your all, invest unwavering effort, and after all this what if you still fall short of achieving your dream?
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Before the internet, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, human connections were all about good old-fashioned face-to-face encounters. No, not Zoom meetings, but actual in-person gatherings. People built relationships by attending social events where they’d chat, laugh, and occasionally break into spontaneous dance-offs in their well-lit caves and colorful gardens. Friendships were like a well-cooked biryani, simmering over shared experiences, heartfelt conversations, and the occasional handwritten letter or two. Communities were cozy and tight-knit, with neighbors who didn’t need a ‘Follow’ button to show they cared.
- Social distancing and The Naked Sun 2 minutes
Social distancing is a new and perhaps uncomfortable concept for many of those practicing it due to the pandemic this world is going through today. We are all in different places now; most probably where we didn’t expect ourselves to be at this point. We are forced to stay isolated from others in our own hole, yet we are connected to everyone through this fantastic invention of mankind: the internet. In my opinion, being isolated has its own perks and even staying off the internet during this time might do you good but that’s not really the topic of discussion right now; maybe some other time.
"I want to live"
— Nico Robin