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user: lalitmaganti
created: 2021-02-01
karma: 418

Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google working on Perfetto (docs.perfetto.dev). Passionate about open source, performance, and the intersection of the two. Writing about all of these at lalitm.com.

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17 bugs in 10 weeks from AI security scanning
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Don't answer the first question
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How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026
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Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code
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Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²)
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Syntaqlite: High-fidelity devtools that SQLite deserves
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Why AI Coding Advice Contradicts Itself
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How I estimate work as a staff software engineer
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Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers
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Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
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Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
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Diagnosing performance with dotnet-trace and Perfetto
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Understanding SQL Parsers
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Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is Your Type?
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2025 was an excellent year for this blog
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Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What Is an Object?
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The Dictator's Handbook and the politics of technical competence
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State of the Server 2026
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