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Trick to learn any open source repository

Trick to learn any open source repository

Chat is bad for dev tools, tricks to dive into repos, transformers by hand, and pickleball courts!

Shobhit Bakliwal
February 09, 2025

Hello hello! What’s up?

This is a letter, a personal letter, from me to you. I hope to send it to you every week. If you find it boring, or want to holler at me, just reply to this.

I am going to share three interesting things I came across the past week, every week.

Let’s get into it.

Chat is a bad UI pattern for dev tools

Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools—Daniel De Laney

You don’t want to have a conversation with your computer, you want to build.

danieldelaney.net/chat

Article that advocates for using documents rather than chat for building software.

Trick to learn about any open source repo

awesome Cursor trick i'm using to learn React internals:
1. clone github repo you don't understand (like facebook/react)
2. use agent mode + claude sonnet 3.5
3. ask it to read the codebase. then ask it questions and show you where it's implemented
— Aiden Bai (@aidenybai)
12:43 AM • Feb 7, 2025

Wish I had thought this. It’s genius!

I tried it on rails code. It works so well!

Transformers in a spreadsheet

Transformer - Spreadsheet

Make your own AI by hand ✍️ exercises

www.byhand.ai/p/transformer-spreadsheet

Play around, see how transformers work. There’s a link to walk through as well there!

My wife launched her pickleball courts yesterday! The speed with which the whole thing came about was super impressive, turning an uneven, dust ridden land into pickleball courts.

from left to right in two and a half months
— Shobhit Bakliwal (@shobhitic)
4:33 AM • Feb 9, 2025

If you’re in Bangalore, would love to host you! This is the google maps link for 11point club.

They have a 50% off offer going on right now for the first month, available on playo.co.

P.S. Hit me up if you’re looking for a team to build full stack web or mobile apps.