https://shiv.me/tags/ai/ Recent content in AI on Shivanand Velmurugan — Product leader. Systems thinker. Hugo en © Shivanand Velmurugan Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:17:00 +0530 https://shiv.me/posts/2026/from-digger-to-deepseek/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:17:00 +0530 https://shiv.me/posts/2026/from-digger-to-deepseek/ <p><img src="https://shiv.me/images/imagine-buddy-bTMTggEt5s4-unsplash.jpg" alt="Cover Photo"> Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@imaginebuddy?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Imagine Buddy</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/a-person-placing-a-block-into-a-pile-of-wooden-blocks-bTMTggEt5s4?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a></p> <blockquote> <p>The bug bytes again;<br> Beneath the hood, the hidden<br> Sparks begin to run.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <h1 id="from-digger-to-deepseek-a-quest-for-a-local-ai-model">From Digger to DeepSeek: A quest for a local AI model</h1> <p>It was June 1988. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had just wrapped up the Moscow Summit, Steve Jobs was fueling intense industry rumors with his upcoming <a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1988/#102641154c15dfdf0647c2fe6f02271c">NeXT workstation</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee">Tim Berners-Lee</a> was quietly circulating the first informal notes at CERN for what would become the World Wide Web. On the radio, Michael Jackson was dominating the summer charts as &ldquo;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Diana">Dirty Diana</a>&rdquo; became his record-breaking fifth consecutive number-one single from <em>Bad</em>. Meanwhile, Russia was prepping the launch of its ill-fated <a href="https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/phobos1.html">Phobos 1 Mars Orbiter</a>, and I was an 8-year-old in Paris getting the bug — the desire to build my own computer.</p> https://shiv.me/posts/2025/the-undone-made-possible/ Sat, 07 Jun 2025 14:30:00 -0800 https://shiv.me/posts/2025/the-undone-made-possible/ <p><img src="https://shiv.me/images/undone-made-possible-cover.webp" alt="Cover Photo"></p> <blockquote> <p>Code waits patient,<br> Dreams gather digital dust—<br> Until machines learn.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>We all have them—that long list of projects, ideas, and tasks that are left incomplete. Like a cluttered kitchen drawer ignored until you wedge the oversized scissors between the back and the roof of the cabinet, we leave piles of neglected items in the wake of our busy lives. There is a special kind of mental malaise that comes from carrying around ideas and tasks, relegating them to purgatory. That app concept left unfinished just after you figured out how to add 1,700 dependencies to your React app and spent eight hours learning the nuances of MVVM. The data analysis you <em>meant</em> to complete to dispel misinformation spouted by Elon about who did meaningful work based on the number of lines of code committed. The project around the house you need to do every year, but can’t be done because you don’t have the time to do the required research. These orphaned possibilities accumulate over the years. And I have a very long list.</p>