Ankit Sachdeva

Forward Deployed Engineer Roadmaproadmap.sh

roadmap.sh's step-by-step guide to becoming a Forward Deployed Engineer in 2026 — the Palantir-popularized role that embeds engineers directly with customers, sitting somewhere between software engineering, solutions architecture, and consulting.

One Million Checkboxeseieio.games

Nolen Royalty built a site with one million checkboxes shared live by everyone on the internet — check one and it's checked for all. Behind the chaos: a Redis bit array, WebSocket broadcasts, react-window rendering, and a fun bit-ordering bug between Python and JavaScript.

Everything That Went Wrong With Claudeclawd.rip

A RIP-themed timeline (not affiliated with Anthropic) cataloging Claude's controversies, outages, pricing shocks, and lawsuits — from cache-amnesia billing surprises and DMCA takedown sprees to Pentagon supply-chain fights and the great Claude Code nerf.

no-mistakesgithub.com

A local git proxy that sits in front of your remote: push to it instead of origin and it spins up a disposable worktree, runs an AI validation pipeline (review, test, docs, lint), auto-fixes safe issues, escalates the rest, and opens a clean PR only after every check passes.

Paraform Talent Density Indexparaform.com

Paraform ranks companies not by funding or logos but by how badly the market wants their people — an algorithm over hiring data across thousands of roles and millions of candidate profiles. Thinking Machines, OpenAI, and Anthropic top the list.

32 Ways Your Writing Looks Like an AI Wrote Itdunkels.com

Adam Dunkels: 32 recurring patterns that mark text as AI-written — em-dash overuse, hedging, filler phrases, uniform sentences — plus tools to spot and strip them from your own writing.

Hermes Agent for QA Automationmedium.com

Arghajit Singha on Hermes: a terminal-native AI agent for QA workflows that runs against local LLMs, holds persistent memory of your test environment, and turns repetitive shell commands into reusable skills.

Building an MCP Ecosystem at Pinterestmedium.com

Pinterest built a production ecosystem of domain-specific MCP servers behind a central registry, saving an estimated 7,000 engineering hours per month across 66,000 monthly invocations.

Introducing the MCP Registryblog.modelcontextprotocol.io

Preview of an open catalog and API for discovering publicly available MCP servers, with room for public and private sub-registries to build on top.

Impeccableimpeccable.style

Paul Bakaus: a design-fluency skill for AI coding agents — teaches Claude and others real design vocabulary and patterns so they stop generating purple gradients, nested cards, and other AI slop.

Taste Skilltasteskill.dev

Leon Lin and blueemi: an open-source design-system framework that gives AI coding agents the rules and templates to ship polished, coherent frontends instead of generic AI output.

The Anatomy of an Agent Harnesslangchain.com

LangChain: a breakdown of the harness layer that wraps an LLM into a working agent — the loop, tools, memory, and control flow that turn raw model calls into reliable autonomous behavior.

The Bus Ticket Theory of Geniuspaulgraham.com

Paul Graham: great work requires natural ability, determination, and a disinterested obsession with something that matters — an intense, purposeless interest that lets you follow unpromising paths others overlook.

Before the Startuppaulgraham.com

Paul Graham: the best preparation for founding a startup is pursuing genuine intellectual curiosity and interesting problems, not attempting to launch ventures while still in school.

Why Startup Founders Should Launch Sooner Than They Thinkyoutube.com

Y Combinator: the cost of launching too early is lower than you think, and the cost of waiting is higher.

The New Way To Build A Startupyoutube.com

Y Combinator: how AI is collapsing the team size needed to build a company from the ground up.

How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Erayoutube.com

Y Combinator: where to focus your energy when AI is compressing the value of credentials and raising the ceiling on what one person can build.

Using GraphViz for CLAUDE.mdblog.fsck.com

Trigger-based GraphViz flowcharts help Claude follow instructions more reliably than markdown rules.

gstackgithub.com

Garry Tan's Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated skills covering CEO, designer, eng manager, release manager, and QA roles.

My AI Adoption Journeymitchellh.com

Mitchell Hashimoto's six-step journey from dismissing AI to running agents continuously in the background.

Your AI Agent Doesn't Care About Your READMElevelup.gitconnected.com

Reya Vir: Auto-generate a hierarchy of AGENTS.md files so your AI agent gets dense, folder-specific context instead of one giant README.

Cities and Ambitionpaulgraham.com

Different cities send different messages. New York says you should make more money. Cambridge says you should be smarter.