dhanush kumar

Books

2026

  • AI EngineeringreadingChip Huyen

    The book I hand to engineers who ask where to start — evals get a whole chapter because they deserve one.

  • Working in PublicNadia Eghbal

    Explained the economics of the building-in-public thing I was already doing on instinct.

  • Le Petit PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry

    The first book I finished entirely in French. Yes, it's a children's book. It still counts.

2025

  • Designing Data-Intensive ApplicationsMartin Kleppmann

    Reread it the year everything became a retrieval problem — the chapters on indexes aged into a RAG manual.

  • Deep WorkCal Newport

    Half obvious, half life-changing; the trick is nobody can tell you which half applies to you.

2024

  • The Pragmatic ProgrammerDavid Thomas & Andrew Hunt

    The advice survived the AI shift better than most of my stack did.