I am getting back to writing weeknotes again after nearly a month-long hiatus.

Things have been busy at work and I have been languishing over the weekends. Not proud of the consistency drop but I am going to pick it up again and continue from where I left off.

The last month has been an interesting bit of madness so I’ll quickly gloss over it.

1. I failed to deliver the agent on time which caused it to not be usable within the current scope of the project. It’ll come in picture later.
2. My colleague got moved to another team so currently I am the only developer who’ll be working on MCP and AI layer.
3. I am not in a position to replace my manager if he falls sick or something happens to him. This is a bit alarming because I will have to be better involved in the upcoming release of AI in December and the major release in Feburary, 2027.
4. Still have not completed the Rust logger which is needed to be introduced as the volume of logs is catastrophically high when using AI.
5. Have been able to make fixes across the MCP layer and migrated a lot of services to new Aerospike namespaces.

I don’t know if I should be going this detailed but eh, here it goes for now. Early career mistakes will be made, so they better be made early on.

Now, a major hiccup in the last week of October happened when my MacBook’s screen started flickering and then it went fully back. I have given my laptop for servicing but there is this possibility that it is permanently damaged in which case I would have to shell out 1,00,000 or more as fines from my own pocket. This is something I am not happy about as I am in no way directly responsible for the damage of the MacBook. If it comes down to this, then I would rather quit the job …

What this means is this, I am once again back to my job hunting status but with a job in hand. I have been told that you start looking for job 4-6 months before you actually want to leave the company so here goes.

I quite like my workplace, my peers and my managers. I would like to make the switch only to get out of Service Based Companies (SBC). I believe this was a good starting point for me to understand the industry and if I were to do it again, I would not change anything. Looking at the industry from the top may appear lucrative but looking at it from the streets gives you a different perspective.

It was important for me as an individual to come into the industry in this fashion and learn about empathy, different work cultures, how people survive and the hardships they must go through inorder to grow out of this and move to roles in FAANG or FAANG-adjacent companies.

While I am not a FAANG fan-boy; I do like the following companies and would love to work here:

1. Cloudflare
2. PlanetScale
3. Rippling
4. Posthog
5. Stripe

and other infrastructure or fintech companies.

Let’s see where this goes. I need to get back to DSA and system design while keeping up with AI-trends and must personal explorations. I don’t want to let go of one for another because that’s just not me.

I think I have got 2 months of solid work cut out of me before I attain a level of stability with either of my habits because they have been all over the place lately.