Software engineer. Writing about technology, design, and building things.https://pouyamiri.com/https://pouyamiri.com/blog/ax/https://pouyamiri.com/blog/ax/AX. The overall experience of an AI Agent interacting with a product such as a website or app, especially in terms of how easy or token-efficient it is to use.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pouyamiri.com/blog/batching-notifications/https://pouyamiri.com/blog/batching-notifications/Users hate getting hundreds of emails a day from your app. So what kind of architecture do you need to batch notifications and keep users happy?Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pouyamiri.com/blog/building-a-little-robot/https://pouyamiri.com/blog/building-a-little-robot/I had my love for robotics reignited recently, so I decided to build little robot.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pouyamiri.com/blog/html-resume/https://pouyamiri.com/blog/html-resume/After years of using MS Word and LaTeX for writing resumes, I decided go to the language we where meant to use all along.Sat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://pouyamiri.com/blog/improve-performance-by-understanding-users/https://pouyamiri.com/blog/improve-performance-by-understanding-users/Improving the performance of an app usually happens by parallelizing tasks, writing faster code, or doing less work. But there is another way too, by leveraging user behaviour, to create the illusion of speed.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pouyamiri.com/blog/poking-around-the-weights/https://pouyamiri.com/blog/poking-around-the-weights/A primer into how LLMs work and a recap of some of the experiments I've been doing on LLMs as I get into mechnanistic interpretability.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pouyamiri.com/blog/prompt-engineering/https://pouyamiri.com/blog/prompt-engineering/Writing prompts for large language models has always been a manual process, but what if it could be done programatically?Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://pouyamiri.com/blog/stored-procedures-considered-harmful/https://pouyamiri.com/blog/stored-procedures-considered-harmful/Having used stored procedures extensively in the past year, I have come to the conclusion that they bring more pain than good in a modern .NET web application.Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pouyamiri.com/blog/thoughts-on-ai/https://pouyamiri.com/blog/thoughts-on-ai/You're hearing about vibe coding, agents, ralph loops, and you're thinking to yourself, what's happening to software engineering?Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT