Thoughts on recruiting, technology, and building great teams
To all readers of this newsletter, a very Happy Diwali to you and along with that a big thank you to all of you for being here. This is my second Diwali newsletter, which means this little recruiting gig has survived to see another day and none of...
Yesterday was such an amazing day! First of all, a huge shoutout to my friends at Invideo for putting together the first edition of Bombay.ex, the Mumbai Elixir users meetup. The team at Invideo has been supporting the Mumbai tech scene by hosting...
Events of this week reminded me of the time my brother in law got laid off. He expected me to commisserate when he told me the news and was surprised when I said "good. you'd never have had the courage to quit on your own". He's now making 3x his...
I first started programming in Ruby back in 2008, and when I finally understood what Rails was, I felt genuinely cheated. You see, I had been trying to build something similar in Perl around 2005-2006, but I just didn't have the skills to pull it...
DHH recently made a point that is very close to my heart - that all your CVs are full of shit. https://x.com/dhh/status/1956770356770873845 Every time I meet someone who thinks their CV is read carefully and taken seriously, I die a little inside....
There's a moment every AI Application Engineer knows. You've crafted the perfect prompt. Tested it fifty times. It works beautifully. Then you deploy it, and the AI decides to write haikus instead of JSON. Your users are delighted. Your monitoring...
Software is literature now. I'm not being metaphorical. Your IDE is a chat window. Your compiler is a conversationalist. Every interaction with AI is an act of writing. We're not coding anymore - we're conducting conversations that become...
Over the last week or so, something has shifted in the state-of-the-art in AI, agents and vibe coding and that is namely this - This shit works now yo! For me this realisation came when I decided to try out Claude Code with the new Sonnet-4 and...
Hello all, so after a year of experimenting on recruiting I've decided that I love it and will continue to do this for the foreseeable future. And so to mark this moment of clarity, I've moved everything to a more permanent domain -...
For the past week I have been at AltSpace's annual indie-hacking retreat and it has been a real eye opener. AltSpace hosts this event once a year, bringing together a few dozen indie hackers form across the subcontinent shout-out to Harish from...