Blog posts

2026

The tacos aren’t gonna find themselves

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I don’t know why I landed on a chatbot. I thought it’d be cool to set one up with geospatial restaurant data, and I’d learn a lot. I wasn’t wrong. There are 15,000+ restaurants in the 5 NYC boroughs. How do you figure out where to eat? How does anybody figure out where to eat? (top 10 unsolved mysteries of all time)

Vibe coding and cost management

less than 1 minute read

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I tasked Claude with building me a scalable flight-tracker chatbot, and it ended up costing me $280 for 4 days of operation, when the estimate Claude gave me was $40/month.

2020

AstraZeneca AI Hackathon

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What was this about?

There were 3 problems put forward by AstraZeneca at Shaastra, the Technical Festival of IIT Madras, in January 2020, and as a 3-member team, my friends and I worked on all of them and presented our solutions to the business leads at AstraZeneca.

2019

Model UN Website!

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Web dev for the Model UN!

For the first time, I’ve built a dynamic website, and hosted it on a DigitalOcean droplet!

PharmAssist

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Global Runner-Up in AWS Challenge! WOOOHOOO!

My friends and I built a novel Android application that assists users in keeping track of medicines and their prescribed dosages, using unique labels.

2018

Facial-recognition Attendance Manager (FAM)

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What was the aim of this project?

To make a fully functioning product capable of tracking attendance, and hopefully sell it to interested companies and/or colleges.

WhoIsInIt

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This app was my first big project in Android Studio, that actually worked just the way I wanted it to.

The Compression Project

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I always wanted to implement a File Compression algorithm, inspired by Silicon Valley, obviously. I started this project with that in mind. Well, you know how it went. Didn’t go according to plan.