Hello, World! 👋

I’m Shuvro — a senior engineer who fell down the rabbit hole of philosophy, got tangled in psychology, wandered through geopolitics, and somehow emerged writing about AI.

The Origin Story

My journey started with a simple printf("Hello, World!") and spiraled into questions like “What even is consciousness?” and “Why do engineers burn out?” (spoiler: it’s not just the deadlines). After 10+ years of shipping code, debugging systems, and mentoring teams, I’ve learned that the most interesting problems are rarely just technical.

What I Think About

🧠 Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

I work with AI/ML both in applied settings and deep in the theory. From deploying production models to reading papers on attention mechanisms at 2 AM. Neural networks, LLMs, and the philosophical implications of machines that can reason. Is GPT conscious? Probably not. Am I sure? Also no.

💻 Software Engineering

After years of shipping code at scale, I’ve developed opinions. Strong ones. About architecture, about tests (write them), about documentation (also write them), and about why your startup doesn’t need microservices (it doesn’t). I’ve done the startup chaos, the big tech bureaucracy, and everything in between.

📖 Philosophy

I read across traditions. The Stoics (Marcus Aurelius, Seneca) for practical wisdom. The existentialists (Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Camus) for questions about meaning. Greek mythology, Nordic sagas, Eastern philosophy — different cultures asking the same questions, arriving at different answers.

I’m drawn to questions about meaning, morality, and what it means to live authentically. These matter whether you’re debugging at 2 AM or deciding what to do with your life.

🧩 Psychology & Cognitive Science

Why do we make the decisions we make? Why do smart people do dumb things? The curse of knowledge, motivated reasoning, confirmation bias — I’m fascinated by how our brains deceive us. Knowing about biases doesn’t make you immune to them (another bias: the bias blind spot).

I read Kahneman, Tversky, Cialdini, and the cognitive science research so you don’t have to. Understanding the wetware that runs our software is half the battle.

🔬 Science & Rationality

I’m a science believer. Not in the “trust the experts” sense — experts are wrong all the time — but in the sense that the scientific method is our best tool for cutting through bullshit. Hypotheses, experiments, replication. It’s the closest thing we have to a cure for self-deception.

Evolution, physics, neuroscience — the universe doesn’t care what we want to believe. That’s what makes discovering truth so satisfying.

🌍 Geopolitics

Power dynamics, international relations, the forces shaping our world. Understanding systems — whether they’re codebases or nation-states — scratches the same intellectual itch. The intersection of technology, policy, and global power is endlessly fascinating. Who controls AI? Who should? These aren’t just tech questions.

📚 Mythology & Ancient Wisdom

I’m not religious, but I read everything — Greek myths, Nordic sagas, Eastern texts, Western philosophy. Every culture developed frameworks for understanding life, death, meaning, and morality. Different answers to the same questions.

These are thousands of years of accumulated human insight. I’m interested in the patterns across traditions, not adherence to any single one.

💪 Fitness & Bodybuilding

6 days a week in the gym, natural bodybuilding. There’s something deeply satisfying about the discipline of progressive overload — it’s debugging for the body. The gym is where I process problems, find clarity, and prove that consistency beats intensity. No shortcuts, no substances, just iron and time.

🐾 Animals

The most honest beings on the planet. I share my home with Euro (the dignified gentleman) and Brownie (the chaos agent) — two cats who judge my code and life choices with equal disdain. Euro prefers to supervise from a distance while Brownie insists on walking across my keyboard at critical moments.

Animals remind me that not everything needs to be productive or meaningful — sometimes existence is enough. Plus, rubber duck debugging is overrated; cat debugging is where it’s at (even if they’re actively sabotaging your work).

The Queen 👑

Behind every risk I’ve taken, every leap of faith, every late-night debugging session that turned into an existential crisis — there’s been one constant: my wife.

She’s the one who said “go for it” when I doubted myself. The one who believed in my crazy ideas before they made sense. The one who makes home feel like home, no matter where we are.

This site, this career, this life I get to live — none of it happens without her. She’s not just my partner; she’s my foundation.

To my queen: Thank you for everything. Always.

The Philosophy

This blog is a digital garden — less curated publication, more evolving collection of thoughts. Some posts are polished. Some are rough notes. All are genuine attempts to understand things.

I write to think. Publishing is just a forcing function.

The Stack (For Fellow Nerds)

  • Site: Hugo + PaperMod (heavily customized)
  • Hosting: Probably Cloudflare Pages or Vercel
  • Editor: Neovim (btw)
  • Notes: Obsidian
  • Terminal: Wezterm + tmux
  • Coffee: Too much
  • Supervision: Euro 🐱 & Brownie 🐱 (two very opinionated cats)

For the full setup, check out my /uses page.

Building in Public 🚀

I don’t just write about ideas — I ship them. Currently building two projects in public:

RepoEngine.com

Making repository management smarter. Follow the journey as I build, break, and iterate in public.

ExtremeFitness.app

Because tracking PRs should be as optimized as hitting them. Natural bodybuilding meets software engineering.

I share daily progress on all platforms — the wins, the bugs, the 2 AM debugging sessions. Building in public means showing the messy middle, not just the polished launches.

Content Creation 🎬

I also make videos about the topics I write about here. Sometimes thoughts flow better through spoken word than typed code. You’ll find me talking about AI, philosophy, engineering, fitness, and the strange intersection of all of them.

Turns out, the same curiosity that drives debugging drives content creation — you’re just debugging ideas instead of code.

Find Me

  • YouTube: Long-form deep dives on tech, philosophy, and everything in between
  • X (Twitter): @shuvro — Hot takes, cold coffee, and daily build updates
  • Instagram: Behind the scenes of building in public
  • TikTok: Short-form chaos and insights
  • GitHub: Where my code lives (and occasionally dies)
  • Email: For everything else

“I think, therefore I have a headache.”
— Me, probably

📬 Want to chat? I love hearing from readers. Especially if you disagree with something I’ve written — that’s when the interesting conversations happen. Even more so if you want to talk about AI ethics, geopolitics, natural bodybuilding, why your cats are better than Euro and Brownie (they’re not), or whether Nietzsche would have used Vim or Emacs.

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