Craft Does Not Retire
A director near 80 and a composer in his nineties shipped a 2026 movie. Work stays alive when you enjoy the process and keep learning.
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Hey, I'm Prakash
Finding joy in making things and making sense of things.
I explore ideas, build software, and write about whatever catches my curiosity. Welcome to my corner of the internet.
Notes on software, observation, and tracing patterns back to first principles.
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Inside the months-long pipeline that turns trillions of words of text into a deployable LLM: data, tokenizer, pre-training, alignment, and shipping.