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The present moment

Now.

A /now page — a snapshot of what I’m focused on, reading, and not doing. Updated when the season changes or when I catch myself having drifted.

Last tended

What I’m building

Focus.

Day job

AI-powered workspace planning

Building the occupancy and team planning engine at Saltmine. LLMs reading floor plans, generating layouts, reasoning about adjacencies.

Nights

This website

Rewriting shaileshshivam.dev around a Mithila folk-art design system. Six versions in. You are reading v6.

Writing

Durable AI systems

Thinking about how LLM-powered services fail gracefully — timeouts, hallucinations, provider drift. Half-written essay incoming.

Companions

The around.

Reading

  • Staff Engineer Will Larson · Re-reading
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann · Reference
  • The Design of Everyday Things Don Norman · Slowly

Listening

  • LCD Soundsystem — All My Friends
  • A. R. Rahman — Dil Se Re (live)
  • The Beatles — Across the Universe

Watching

  • Slow Horses (S4) Jackson Lamb is my career advisor now
  • The Bear (S3) A show about running a kitchen that is also a show about shipping software

Conscious absence

Things I am not doing.

A /now page is only honest if it lists what you are actively avoiding. The time you spend on any one thing is the time you cannot spend on another.

  1. 01 Shipping production AI features on a deadline and chasing aesthetics at night
  2. 02 Reading more than writing (working on inverting this)
  3. 03 Saying yes to every coffee chat