Recents & Ships

A New Page About How I Design

I added a page about design to my site, and this is the short story of how an engineer came to care about it.

What Went Wrong With ibbe

An examination of the mistakes that led to the end of ibbe, from misjudging scale to inconsistent effort.

Hold your people close

When attacks become cheap, safety depends on being hard to hurt: less exposure online and deeper trust at home.

India feels increasingly exhausting to watch. There is so much talent, capital and ambition here, yet an unreasonable amount of public attention is consumed by caste disputes, political controversies,…

IBBE Heirloom

Internal streaming automation platform that transforms pre-recorded videos into professional live-stream events.

Coming soon to a morning near you.

Welcoming the stunning new iOS & iPadOS 27. This might be my favorite redesign in years.

Think Past the Trend

A personal take on why picking a career around trends like AI can backfire, and why relationships and long term judgment tend to matter far more than whatever skill happens to trend this year.

The Cost of Free

As AI replaces more of the work we earn from, a strange loop emerges: we need money to access the very tool replacing our income.

I now own rajguru.xyz and plan to use it for personal email addresses for my family. I have no plans of getting married or having kids, but if that ever changes, my wife and kids will have their own n…

A Grain Against Infinity

When I look at death and everything I’ve done with my life, I think about my goal: to improve people’s lives and leave this world a little better than I found it. But when I think about the scale of m…

If I had to pursue a career other than cybersecurity or psychology, it would be the IFS.

The Feed That Decides What India Thinks

Indian users generate some of the largest traffic numbers for global platforms, yet the rules governing what appears on those feeds get written far away, under different laws and different pressures. A look at how that gap has already surfaced in Indian politics, and why it matters for the years ahead.

The Cost of More

Companies want to use AI so desperately due to the fear of missing out that they are ignoring the quality of work. We will see a huge boom of this in branding materials, websites, software, and so muc…

Afterglow

As long as the reminders make me remember, and cry over, someone I spent so much of myself trying to put together, I’ll know I’m still grounded.

Detaching from everything

I don’t want a single visual proof of my existence on the internet, only thing that’ll remain is my texts by twitter and my blog, it makes it easier for me to take an exit

Just finished shooting our first reel for @ibbesocials . Crazy to think this started as an idea and now we’re actually out here shooting stuff for it. More soon.

The Gate Moved

Education used to function as a gate you had to pass before you began. AI is changing that order. A personal take on what happens when the work comes first and the judging comes after.

The Collective Intelligence of Software

i think the software industry should start contributing its collective engineering knowledge in a way models can actually use. framework authors, library maintainers, companies. all of it. we've spent…

ibbe got its blue check. now onto the gold one.

A Universal Standard for AI Truthfulness: Why Fragmented Censorship Must End

After testing AI models from India, China, the US, and Europe on sensitive topics, the results highlight a clear problem: heavy regional censorship driven by politics and ideology. This post proposes a practical international certification system built on six core principles to prioritize facts over national interests.

The Relative Collection

I’ve been working on three new typefaces for The Relative collection: The Relative Sans, The Relative Rounded, and The Relative Mono. Built with the help of Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, I’m sharing…

The Two Lives of a City

Every city inherits an identity from its history, but it also develops another through the people who arrive later. Its greatness depends on whether these two identities can grow together without either one being erased.

What Remained

One of the best films I have ever seen. I have barely spoken since I watched it.

Signing up for a website shouldn’t trigger immediate sales spam calls.

In the AI age, where everyone is generating videos, images, and AI slop, people with great taste and ethics will still create beautiful experiences for people.

The Question Behind Long-Term Relevance

A simple question can reveal whether a business is built around temporary advantages or lasting value: What is our core promise?

The Reliability Premium

We often worry about artificial intelligence becoming smarter than us, but the real disruption in the workplace might come from a much simpler trait: showing up and doing the work without friction.

Sovereignty Needs a Reason

Sovereign products need a clear purpose for users, but building local alternatives also reduces long term dependence.

The Economic Paradox of AI

What happens when intelligence is no longer scarce and anyone can create anything? This is the economic question we are not asking enough.

The Alignment Gap

A brief reflection on the contradiction between a venture fund's marketing and its actual investment thesis, and why founders should focus on building rather than seeking validation from misaligned partners.

Government Hostages: Regulators Strangling AI Freedom

AI is becoming geopolitics. Governments want control, builders want progress. Innovation slows when power fears what it can't direct.

Apple WWDC 2026 Thoughts

WWDC 2026 focused heavily on AI, but the most useful updates were not necessarily the AI features. Alongside a rebuilt Siri and new Apple Intelligence tools, Apple introduced performance improvements, safety enhancements, and platform-wide refinements. While the event showed progress, it also highlighted the need for greater user control, stronger security, and better content authenticity tools.

Designing the Architecture of Agent First Software

Software platforms are rebuilding their core structures so that artificial intelligence agents can interact with them as first-class users.

The Surprising Resilience of Hands-On Work

The rise of advanced artificial intelligence is changing how we look at careers, shifting the advantage away from traditional office roles and back toward physical, skilled trades.

Software Used to Be for Us

A personal reflection on how technology updates shifted from solving human problems to chasing corporate trends, and what we lost along the way.

Dismantling the Fake AI Economy

The AI education market is flooded with cheap courses making impossible promises. This deep dive exposes the flaws of prompt engineering gimmicks and explains why true value lies in human taste, domain expertise, and deep industry knowledge rather than automated shortcuts.

AI as a Supportive Layer in Customer-Centric Product Strategy

After watching the Google I/O 2026 keynote and checking out the Airbnb Summer Release 2026, I noticed a difference between companies using AI to look modern and those using it to improve their product. Airbnb stayed focused on travel and the actual problems people face. AI is definitely there, but it stays in the background where it belongs. It is a sidekick, not the main character.

How We Get Convinced: Inside the Mechanism of Belief

I set out to understand why we change our minds or fall for flimsy narratives. I wanted to pinpoint when an idea shifts from something we read to something we believe. My journey through psychology and neuroscience revealed the answers. Here is how our brains function when influenced, both individually and collectively, exposing the hidden mechanics behind our deeply held convictions.

Moving Out Is a Speed Decision

At some point, staying home costs you more than rent ever will.

We Already Learned This

The web does not need more decoration. It needs more discipline.

Who Is Really Responsible When AI Launches a Cyber Attack?

I has crossed a line. It is actively running cyber attacks, and the old debate about whether machines or people are to blame has become dangerously simple. The real answer is layered, uncomfortable, and demands action from everyone in the chain.

Heads Up on My Dev Tools

The TanStack supply chain attack was serious enough that I am pausing everything and asking people to hold off on using my tools until I can properly audit them.

Keep LeetCode Around

LeetCode still matters even with AI becoming common.

I Watched Anthropic Launch a Services Company and Felt the Ground Shift Under Indian IT

On May 4, 2026, Anthropic stopped being just an AI lab. They formed a $1.5 billion enterprise services company and walked directly into the business that Infosys, TCS, and Wipro have owned for three decades. I want to think through what actually happened, what it means for the industry, and where the work is going from here.

The Intersection of One

The question isn't what skill to learn. It's what kind of person you're becoming and what taste you're building.

My Obsidian Space

Obsidian provides a clean and unrestricted writing environment that allows my thoughts to expand without the distraction of plugins or complex tools.

Seeking a Growth Partner to Market Exceptional Software Projects

I architect software projects, tools, and digital experiences. I am seeking a strategic partner to introduce these innovations to the global market, connect with users, and transform powerful ideas into sustainable revenue.

I Want to Build My Own Ranch

I want to build my own ranch from scratch one day, living with animals I care about, starting small and growing it outside India.

I Really Want to Learn How to Build Things

I am starting from zero and learning to build real things, from buildings to gardens, understanding how physical spaces come together from the ground up.

We Need to Stop Pretending We Know What's Coming

A model too powerful to release publicly, job predictions that aged out overnight, and a quiet case for why watching a film might be the most productive thing you do today.

Silence as an Answer

I’ve come to see that the best response to things I don’t want to engage with is silence. It sharpens my mind and gives me time, time to understand more and to notice the person who is waiting for me…

AI Policy Making Is a Real Career Now, and It Is One of the Best Bets You Can Make Right Now

Most people are chasing machine learning and prompt engineering. But the skill that is quietly becoming one of the most in-demand in the entire AI industry is understanding how AI models should behave, and knowing how to build the frameworks that govern them. Here is everything I learned going deep on this topic.

Introducing the Career Discovery Board

I launched this site to share my research and recommendations on the specific jobs, markets, and categories that I believe are positioned for significant growth.

The AI Power Stack: How I Actually Get Work Done

After spending years stress testing AI in every conceivable way, I have built a daily tech stack that actually works for me. My current setup relies on premium tiers across the board, including the Ge…

I Almost Killed My Startup By Trusting the Wrong People. Here's Everything I Learned the Hard Way.

I thought giving people chances was a strength. I hired friends, I brought in co-founders I believed in, I gave opportunities to people who seemed passionate and eager. Every single time, I told myself it would work out. Most of the time, it didn't. This is the story of what went wrong, why it went wrong, and the hard mental shifts that changed how I think about building a team forever.

I Paid Google for a Pro Plan and Got a Fancy Spinner

I've been building with Google Antigravity for months. I paid for Pro. I convinced myself it would get better. It didn't. Here's what actually happened, and why I'm done pretending.

Stop Swallowing the Corporate Fan Fiction

The "industry killer" narrative is nothing more than low-IQ clickbait for people who don't understand how markets actually work. Every time a tech giant fumbles through a feature launch, the tech pres…

The Last Human Skill

In a world where artificial intelligence is rapidly consuming every professional lane we thought was safe, I've been asking myself a question that keeps me up at night — not out of fear, but out of genuine curiosity. What do humans actually do when machines do everything better?

Aldform is now in public beta

We are making Aldform available to the public. You can now sign up, get an API key, and start collecting submissions in under five minutes.

Aldform - How It's Built Under the Hood (Alpha)

Aldform is a form-building and submission-management platform still in alpha. Here's a deep dive into the technical stack, the critical path of form submission, and how we handle scale, billing, and feature rollouts.

The Internet Is Eating Itself: Why AI Data Saturation Is the Privacy Crisis No One Is Ready For

Every platform wants AI. Every AI needs data. And when the open web runs dry, the data they turn to is yours. This is not a future problem. It is happening right now, across every layer of the stack, from the password hashing your server skips to the metadata your encrypted message leaves behind. This is the full picture, where we came from, what the courts have decided, what the science says, and what you can actually do about it.

Aldform: From the Lab: Why We’ve Been Quiet (and What We’ve Been Building)

The irony of 'building in public' is that sometimes you get so deep into the craft that you forget to talk about it. Here’s an honest look at where Aldform stands today, from infrastructure overhauls to our new Alpha features.

From 3 Months of GCP Billing Hell [OR_BACR2_44] to AWS Success in Minutes: A Cautionary Tale for Indian Devs

I spent 90 days fighting Google Cloud’s opaque billing errors in India, trying every card and "fix" in the book. I finally gave up, moved to AWS, and was onboarded with two startups and full Activate credits in under an hour. Here is why GCP is losing the battle for Indian startups.

The AGI Dream is Held Hostage by a Spreadsheet

Everyone's talking about when AGI is coming. The more honest question, maybe, is whether anyone can afford to get there.

Lockdown Was Not a Pause for Gen Z. It Was an Incubation Chamber

For a long time, the lockdown was described as a break in real life, a period of fear, interruption, and social damage. That description is true, but it is incomplete. From where I stand, lockdown also became a hidden incubation chamber for Gen Z. It gave this generation a rare mix of time, digital immersion, reduced social pressure, and permission to experiment. What is showing up now in startups, side hustles, creative work, and founder culture did not appear from nowhere. A large part of it was incubated in those suspended years, when normal life stopped and possibility became visible in a new way.

Dogfooding Aldform

I just finished integrating Aldform into the waitlist at aldform.com, so the site is now officially powered by its own SDK. It’s a simple setup—two endpoints and a tiny bit of code—and I’m already get…

Sometimes i wonder who all this data is really for

In a world where everything we share online can be collected and used to train artificial intelligence systems, I have started thinking more seriously about independence and privacy. This is why I try to do more things alone and why I share only parts of my thinking online.

Aldform V1: The form backend that actually stays out of your way

We just shipped V1 of Aldform. It’s a tiny SDK, two endpoints, and zero backend headaches. Here’s a look at what’s live, what’s coming, and why we’re keeping the doors cracked open just a tiny bit for now.

Aldform: Aldform V1: The form backend that actually stays out of your way

We just shipped V1 of Aldform. It’s a tiny SDK, two endpoints, and zero backend headaches. Here’s a look at what’s live, what’s coming, and why we’re keeping the doors cracked open just a tiny bit for now.

Aldform: Aldform Open Source Evolution

Focused Contributions for Quality

Aldform: Aldform Grows Up

Strengthening Our Core

Aldform: Smooth Updates Ahead

Automated Notifications are Live

Aldform: Infrastructure Foundations are Set

I have officially submitted the application for AWS Activate and configured the core environment to power Aldform.

Aldform: I Just Locked in aldform.com

The search for the right home is over. I officially secured aldform.com as the permanent address for my form infrastructure project.

The End of the Box: Why we built Aldform

Most form builders force you to design inside their constraints. We decided to build a tool that stays out of your way, giving you full control over your data, your design, and your code.

Aldform

Form infrastructure for developers. Two endpoints, one tiny SDK, full design freedom.

How My Brain Actually Works: A Thinking Framework for Getting Things Done

Most people are not lazy. They are just mentally cluttered. Here is how I learned to cut through that.

From Claude Skills to the End of Human Control: Everything I Learned About AI's Most Dangerous Frontier

I started by asking a simple question about why AI models seem to be getting better at everything so fast. What I ended up uncovering was one of the most important and genuinely frightening conversations happening in technology right now, and I think everyone needs to hear it.

Stepping Into the Unknown

I used to think Amazon Web Services was very complicated. The console looked crowded and the number of services made it feel intimidating. For a long time I avoided it because I assumed it would be to…

The AI Industry Has a Generosity Problem - And It's Getting Worse

The companies building the best models are also the ones making them the hardest to actually use. From the 'open-source circus' to frustrating usage limits and regional pricing gaps, the AI industry is increasingly out of touch with serious users outside of Silicon Valley.

Respect is a Choice

Age is just a number, yet some people think it is a crown. I find it hilarious when adults demand a level of respect they refuse to give back. Existing for a few extra decades is an achievement of tim…

The Digital Idol Fallacy

As an atheist, I find the trend of prompt engineering "spiritual" bots to simulate a conversation with a deity both absurd and deeply flawed. Creating a digital mimic of something people consider infi…

AI Giving Us Free Time Is the Most Psychologically Violent Thing That Could Happen to Us

The great paywall creep: how tech giants nickel-and-dime their way to record profits

Every major tech company is systematically dismantling the value proposition that attracted their user base — raising prices, fragmenting bundles, and gating previously free features behind new paywalls.

I'm Quitting Social Media. Here's Why.

After years of assuming my data was safe, I finally looked closely at how these platforms actually work. What I found made me want to log off for good.

Aliens, AI, and the Scariest Thought Experiment I've Had in a While

The universe is massive, we have robots, and somehow this ends with an alien knowing your address

your answer sheet is being read twice now

The AI is present in the exam pipeline. Researchers call it indirect prompt injection. You influence how the model evaluates by controlling how you write.

Introducing HelloAnu at Anu & Rothwell Labs

This piece builds on the ideas from The AI Race Is a Mirror and introduces HelloAnu, a philosophical superintelligence system being developed within Anu & Rothwell Labs.

The Quiet Problem With AI Search

AI search feels simultaneously impressive and unreliable because the problem lives upstream of the AI itself—in the corpus and its attack surface.

You're Not Falling Behind. You're Just Learning Wrong.

Everyone's panicking about AI taking over coding. The real problem isn't that AI is getting smarter - it's that most people are still learning code like it's 2010 while new models drop every few months. There's a better way, and it doesn't require choosing between shipping fast and actually learning.

The Market Doesn't Care About Your Product

I spent months building something I was absolutely certain people needed. But users weren't coming. That gap between what you think you're building and what the market actually wants - that's the gap every founder is quietly, privately terrified of.

building ibbe unrendered felt like this

a little behind the scenes on the ibbe unrendered coming soon page and what it felt like to ship something you actually care about.

I Added Like and Dislike Buttons to My Static Blog Using Cloudflare Workers and D1

My blog has a frontend, no backend, no database. Here is exactly how I added a fully working like and dislike system to it without touching a single server.

Your Face Is Out There. And Someone Is Already Using It.

you have probably heard about grok generating explicit images of real people. i sat with that for a while and started thinking about my own digital footprint. this is about what i found and what you can do.

The AI Race Is a Mirror, and Every Company Is Sprinting Toward It

This piece examines the accelerating convergence of AI capability releases, the strategic positioning of leading laboratories, the underappreciated role of memory as a competitive moat, and proposes a functional redefinition of artificial superintelligence grounded in operational utility rather than abstract cognitive supremacy.

i built a privacy standard i actually believe in.

As the AI age turns personal data into a commodity for big tech, I am drawing a line in the sand. Here is why the IBBE Group is moving to a tokenized-first architecture where your data belongs to you—and only you.

YouTube Outage

yesterday’s global youtube interruption was a rare moment where the world paused. here is a technical breakdown of what likely occurred and how i am using these lessons at ibbe.

ibbe cloud: i bought ibbe.cloud

the first real step toward building the infrastructure that runs everything.

IBBE Heirloom: Building IBBE Heirloom: A Multi-Channel Streaming Server Architecture

How I designed and built an automated streaming infrastructure that broadcasts pre-recorded videos as live events across multiple platforms simultaneously, eliminating manual intervention and maximizing reach for our company events.

IBBE Vessel: How I'm Building IBBE Vessel: The Architecture Behind Real-Time Fleet Management

A behind-the-scenes look at the AWS-powered system I've designed to keep employees, drivers, and fleet managers perfectly in sync, from live GPS tracking to automated attendance.

I Cut My Site's Load Time from 15s to 3s with Surgical Suspense Boundaries

My hiring site was painfully slow. Every page waited for every database query before sending a single byte of HTML. Here's exactly how I fixed it with React Suspense, without rewriting anything major.

New Challenge: The Micro-Build Sprint

I am officially kicking off a personal challenge to build and ship small, functional micro-utility apps over the coming days. The goal is to focus on solving single problems with clean code and high-q…

From Blog to Writings

Why I changed the name from 'blog' to 'writings', and why language shapes perception.

I Think I Just Figured Out What I'm Supposed to Be Doing

I've just realized that psychology and design might actually be the through line I've been looking for. They give me a way to understand people and build things that serve them better. When I design w…

We're Done Asking You to Subscribe

I'm building educational content at ibbe with one rule above all: learning comes first. That means zero "like share subscribe" nonsense, no phones for teachers, no marketing links in descriptions, and lectures that respect your brain's actual attention span. Every decision here exists because I sat through the opposite as a student and it sucked. This is what happens when you stop optimizing for metrics and start optimizing for understanding.

IBBE Learn: Moving to Cloudflare Stream

Building fast means choosing tools that get out of the way, so we are using Cloudflare Stream to skip the AWS headache and just ship.

Building a Valentine That Actually Means Something

Stop buying what everyone else is buying. Here's how to turn history into intimacy.

Why Ads in ChatGPT Could Undermine Trust (And How OpenAI Plans to Prevent It)

OpenAI recently announced they're introducing ads to ChatGPT's free and lower-cost tiers to expand access. Here's what OpenAI promises, why skepticism is warranted, and what a better model might look like.

IBBE Learn: ditching S3 for Cloudflare R2

Saying goodbye to AWS egress fees. I am migrating IBBE to Cloudflare R2 and building a custom local server network to handle cold storage on our own terms.

The Founder’s Paradox: The Systemic Risks of Institutionalizing Idiosyncrasy in Scaling Ventures

This research report investigates the perilous inflection point where a founder’s personal operating system—the unique blend of habits, instincts, and biases that catalyzed a startup’s genesis—transforms from a competitive advantage into a structural liability.

The Internet Stopped Being Useful and Nobody's Talking About It

We broke search. The technology still works, but the entire point of it feels lost. Between AI slop flooding every corner of the web and zero-click answers that keep you trapped on Google, the internet's becoming a dead mall where nothing feels real anymore.

AI Makes a Pretty Good Beta Tester

Turns out AI's weird strengths line up perfectly with finding bugs

IBBE Learn: AWS Activate Credits Approved

We got approved for AWS Activate credits to fuel the build of learn.ibbe.in.

The Invisible Excellence Trap: Why Your Best Work Goes Unnoticed (And Why That Might Be The Point)

I obsess over details most people will never see. I refine, iterate, perfect. Then I watch as users glide past my work, oblivious to the care embedded in every choice. This is the paradox of craftsmanship: when you do it right, it disappears.

Valentine's Day Gift

I'm going to prepare a perfect gift for valentine's day. The thinking process and all, will be shared on my blog. And i will be using my framework /blog/soul-of-gifting to build it. Here is the final…

Leadership as a Service

leadership begins with connection. explore how the daily walk and shared conversations build a standard of trust and support.

two days out and feeling nothing

okay so like. i'm two days out from boards and i genuinely cannot make myself care even though i actually like commerce? picked it myself, love the subjects when they're just subjects, but the second…

finally killed the thoughts page

today i renamed the thoughts page to quick ships because thoughts sound like i am just sitting around dreaming while ships mean i am actually putting stuff out there. a single paragraph is plenty to d…

Why AI Coding Is Still Broken (And Why Your Job Is Safe)

After two years of using AI to code, I've watched it hit a wall that nobody wants to talk about. The tools are getting bigger, but they're getting worse at the one thing that matters: actually thinking like an engineer.

IBBE Learn: Building the Foundation: Why AWS is the Backbone of ibbe learn

A behind-the-scenes look at the architectural decisions for ibbe learn, exploring the showdown between AWS and GCP and why we chose the 'one-roof' approach for our infrastructure.

The Soul of a Brand: Why Human Creativity Still Matters

I will invest my money, my attention, and my loyalty in companies that view marketing as a craft, a promise, and an opportunity to connect. And I will walk away from any brand that treats advertising as something AI can handle while humans take a back seat.

I want to study history again

I want to dive back into history from the ground up someday. It is more than a hobby for me because studying the past actually sharpens the mind. Pushing yourself to track and process all those events…

Typing Speed

I honestly don't get why people are so amazed by my typing speed. They find it weird that I don't look at the keyboard, but it's just a habit for me now. People really seem to fancy the fact that you…

why I choose to stay in this feeling

love leaves us exposed in ways nothing else can. when someone sees our unguarded self and then walks away, the ache settles deep. I'm exploring why moving forward feels impossible, why loyalty persists even when the story has ended, and what this vulnerability teaches me about the depth of real connection.

ibbe cloud

A white-labeled AWS management platform with a clean UI where our team can provision and manage AWS services without ever touching the AWS console

I Hate God

Dropping the whole god concept was the best move because it actually makes sense now. It has been a year since I left all that behind, and it feels like I finally took a deep breath. I am staying on t…

The Iterative Life

i am building a life that prioritizes agility over a fixed destination. while many seek the security of a single career path, i find more value in the freedom to experiment, learn, and pivot. my goal…

returning to the essential

we believe the mind is an architect, designed to construct its own reality. to step back from the digital current is to reclaim the primary role in one's own life. we prefer to invest our time with intention, favoring the deep restoration of scholē over the speed of the scroll. today, we choose to design a life that looks and feels like our own.

The AI Everywhere Rush: Are We Missing The Point?

Every single company is sprinting to adopt it. But is it actually solving user problems?

The Soul of Gifting: A Guide to Giving a Piece of Your Heart

The perfect gift is a feeling. A captured memory. A mirror that shows the recipient exactly how much they matter.