Angadh's meditations https://angadh.com/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:19:44 +0000 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:19:44 +0000 Jekyll v4.3.4 The latest batch of orangey LLM kool-aid inspired many to firestoke that now belongs to the ideas guy. A similar sentiment fomented in my gut from using Claude Code, shortly before this hot-take convention. I Claude Max-maxxed my way to what initially felt like a Sam’s Club-sized token supply; I’d... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:21:49 +0000 https://angadh.com/planager-mode https://angadh.com/planager-mode After reading Maggie Appleton’s excellently illustrated blog post, I began building a Gas Town-inspired multi-agent system that could autonomously complete PhD-level research goals1. One such goal is writing a research paper targeting a specific journal. One of my system’s early outputs spans 94 pages and surveys soft robotics for space... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:46:15 +0000 https://angadh.com/ralphd https://angadh.com/ralphd Over lunch, I watched Chelsea Finn discuss Moravec’s Paradox with people across age and skills groups from kids to expert researchers. It is the idea that humans think any task easy for humans is hard for robots and things that appear hard for humans are easy for robots. For example,... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:46:15 +0000 https://angadh.com/moravec-s-paradox https://angadh.com/moravec-s-paradox Who I Am I am a blogger-builder and an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK) in Spacecraft Engineering at Queen Mary University of London. I balance peer-reviewed academic space research alongside futurist essay-writing in Works in Progress. This week, I shared a spacecraft and debris visualiser with Dwarkesh to help... Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:59:59 +0000 https://angadh.com/anthropic-product-designer-1 https://angadh.com/anthropic-product-designer-1 This is the final piece written for Inkhaven in my Montage series. If you are starting here, and would rather read one long-form piece, then go to Memoirs of a Long-time Luddite. If you’d rather read it as a set of serialised posts, then start with ✅(Inkhaven Post) Montage 1.... Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:27:00 +0000 https://angadh.com/inkhaven-28 https://angadh.com/inkhaven-28 I recently published an annotated AI-generated essay, Claude finds Contradictions in My Thinking, which found some interest on Hacker News. Basically, I let Claude loose on two of my Obsidian vaults: one has been gathering dust with my very early yet dense collection of notes and a more recent vault... Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:51:31 +0000 https://angadh.com/claude-essay-suggestions-1 https://angadh.com/claude-essay-suggestions-1 This essay is mostly AI written. The introduction, marginalia, and two prompts (in callout boxes) are the only human content in this essay with the lion’s share being written by Claude to find contradictions in my thinking. I do so by giving Claude complete access to two of my Obsidian... Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:51:31 +0000 https://angadh.com/contradictions-1 https://angadh.com/contradictions-1 I was explaining HowlerIt is a revamp of an older project, but now AI-powered (if needed). to a friend worried about privacy, and realized something I hadn’t fully thought through while building it. Howler’s a voice messaging app with timestamped replies—you can respond to a specific instant of someone’s voice... Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:26:09 +0000 https://angadh.com/claude-code-project-1-follow-up-1 https://angadh.com/claude-code-project-1-follow-up-1 On the 30th of December 2025, I decided to use Claude Code to rebuild Howler, a project I’d manually hard-coded in 2021. It was a voice messaging app that allowed timestamped replies, and from those timestamped replies, you could stitch out something that sounded like a podcast; this could be... Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:26:09 +0000 https://angadh.com/claude-code-project-1 https://angadh.com/claude-code-project-1 I have written several blogposts surveying various aspects of space station development. These were written to have bite-sized documentation1 on the in-space assembly of the ISS; this also serves as a primer for final-year undergraduate studentsI teach space engineering things at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). working on their... Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:16:22 +0000 https://angadh.com/inkhaven-23 https://angadh.com/inkhaven-23