Confession: I’ve been using Claude Code to write all my code for me. And I think it’s making me worse at the thing I’ve loved doing for twelve years. I can clearly see how AI coding is rewiring our brains – it makes developers crave instant gratification instead of deep understanding, and reduces us to gamblers who pull levers for the next hit of working code. If this is happening to me, someone who learned to code in the pre-AI era, what’s it doing to junior developers who’ve nev...| N’s Blog
I celebrate another revolution around the great big ball of fire today. This was a big year for me: I founded my first product startup, all solo. I’m doing something really hard but I realize I’ve never written down my guiding principles about why I do this. This article is mostly a reminder for me: on what it takes to achieve greatness. Here’s what I’ve learned so far:| N’s Blog
Every developer I know has the same frustrating ritual. Open Claude Code or Cursor and ask it to do a task. The AI gives you generic code, sometimes useful (but usually not). You correct it. It apologizes. You explain again, with additional context. Rinse, repeat, until you want to throw your laptop out the window. David Cramer from Sentry recently shared his AI workflow where he maintains manual rules files to give LLMs context. Solid approach, but it feels like too much copy-pasting. It’s...| N’s Blog
This is part of my “AI in SF” series, where I share real AI engineering workflows from San Francisco startups. I recently interviewed engineers from Parabola (they’re hiring btw, more on that at the end). Here’s a technique to teach AI to learn from your mistakes. You know that feeling...| N’s Blog
A mindset shift that changed the way I think about the world In India, knowledge is currency. Three months ago, if another founder asked me about my marketing strategy, I’d give them some generic answer and change the subject. You don’t share knowledge until there’s something in it for you. I recently moved to San Francisco. A CTO of a unicorn startup had read one of my blog articles and we started talking over DMs. When I got to SF, I asked him to meet, and he agreed. We met in FiDi fo...| N’s Blog
Some months ago, I visited New York and joined the Recurse Center. This is after being in San Francisco for a month, staying next to the Embarcadero and attending On Deck Founders. I’m living in Downtown Brooklyn now, fortunate to find a place that’s just a five minute walk away from the Recurse Center. It’s been a pleasure to stay in both the cities. Some differences:| N’s Blog
