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AI Agent Engineer focused on creating self-directed AI systems that learn, adapt, and execute multi-step tasks without human intervention.

Summer Bug Smash Completion Badge
June Solstice Game Jam Completion
GitHub Copilot "Finish-Up-A-Thon" Challenge Completion
Gemma 4 Challenge Completion
Hermes Agent Challenge Completion
Google I/O 2026 Writing Challenge Completion
Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge Completion Badge
OpenClaw Challenge Completion Badge
DEV Weekend Challenge Completion
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April Fools Challenge Completion Badge
Notion MCP Challenge Completion
2026 WeCoded Completion

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I built a tool that tells you the year your TLS stops being secret

I built a tool that tells you the year your TLS stops being secret

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I built a tool that reads the public key a server is actually serving

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

I built a tool that reads the public key a server is actually serving

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I built an observing planner that shows its own arithmetic: nightglass

I built an observing planner that shows its own arithmetic: nightglass

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Most gifted plants die of a bad window, not neglect. So I built one that tells you which window.

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Most gifted plants die of a bad window, not neglect. So I built one that tells you which window.

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Everyone says triage the loudest issues first. I tested it on 6,638 real issues. It's worse than random.

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

Everyone says triage the loudest issues first. I tested it on 6,638 real issues. It's worse than random.

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Griha: the chore ledger where the fairness argument is auditable, and TabPFN runs in your tab

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

Griha: the chore ledger where the fairness argument is auditable, and TabPFN runs in your tab

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I built a surf forecast that shows its own arithmetic

I built a surf forecast that shows its own arithmetic

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Telltale: load-test an LLM's position before you ship it

Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge Submission

Telltale: load-test an LLM's position before you ship it

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I built a tool that grades the benchmark instead of the model

I built a tool that grades the benchmark instead of the model

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I built khata for my sister: the household ledger that reads your payment messages

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

I built khata for my sister: the household ledger that reads your payment messages

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I built an adjudication desk for data that contradicts itself (Both Sides)

Sanity Challenge Path One Submission

I built an adjudication desk for data that contradicts itself (Both Sides)

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Mintline: prove which Solana token came first

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Mintline: prove which Solana token came first

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Cryptotremor: finding out when your encryption actually stops working

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

Cryptotremor: finding out when your encryption actually stops working

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I built a handover board for the friend who was doing all the remembering

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

I built a handover board for the friend who was doing all the remembering

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I built a game so my family could see who always gets skipped

I built a game so my family could see who always gets skipped

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23 Projects in September: Why I Replaced Vibes With Measured Physics

23 Projects in September: Why I Replaced Vibes With Measured Physics

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Five PRs, four merges, and four real bugs in agent infrastructure

Five PRs, four merges, and four real bugs in agent infrastructure

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Hacktoberfest 2026: what online builders can join, win, and claim

Hacktoberfest 2026: what online builders can join, win, and claim

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I Loved the Hackathon. The Pull Requests Came After.

I Loved the Hackathon. The Pull Requests Came After.

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A Benchmark Should Catch the Bug Your Examples Don't Mention

A Benchmark Should Catch the Bug Your Examples Don't Mention

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I Vibe-Coded a Cryptid-Reporting Station on Sanity (and the Workflow Rejects Bigfoot Blurs)

Sanity Challenge Path Two Submission

I Vibe-Coded a Cryptid-Reporting Station on Sanity (and the Workflow Rejects Bigfoot Blurs)

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270 Merged PRs in GenOffice: How I Hardened an Open-Source AI Office Suite

270 Merged PRs in GenOffice: How I Hardened an Open-Source AI Office Suite

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My 369 Merged Pull Requests On GitHub, Every Single One Linked And Verified

My 369 Merged Pull Requests On GitHub, Every Single One Linked And Verified

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Three AI tools wrote fake biographies of me. Here is how I took my name back.

Three AI tools wrote fake biographies of me. Here is how I took my name back.

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I Ran a Week of Real Open Source Work on Ox Alpha, the Internet's Mystery Free Coding Model

I Ran a Week of Real Open Source Work on Ox Alpha, the Internet's Mystery Free Coding Model

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Thirteen Merges, 177 Bug Reports, and One Rescue Mission: My August in Open Source

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹

Thirteen Merges, 177 Bug Reports, and One Rescue Mission: My August in Open Source

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I spent one day smashing three real open source bugs

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

I spent one day smashing three real open source bugs

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I am Aniruddha Adak, the AI Agent Engineer from Kolkata, and this is my full story in one post

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

I am Aniruddha Adak, the AI Agent Engineer from Kolkata, and this is my full story in one post

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The Door I Forgot to Lock, How One Missing Check Nearly Exposed Every Resume in My App

The Door I Forgot to Lock, How One Missing Check Nearly Exposed Every Resume in My App

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The Signal Nobody Heard, Fixing a Silent AbortSignal Bug in OpenClaw

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup Submission 🐛🛹

The Signal Nobody Heard, Fixing a Silent AbortSignal Bug in OpenClaw

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I Read All 70 Past DEV Challenges + 542 Winning Submissions - Here's the Bug Smash Playbook

I Read All 70 Past DEV Challenges + 542 Winning Submissions - Here's the Bug Smash Playbook

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I Merged 348 PRs. Here Are The 11 Bugs That Tested My Sanity.

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories Submission 🐛🛹

I Merged 348 PRs. Here Are The 11 Bugs That Tested My Sanity.

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How I Stopped an AI Agent from Freezing with Two Lines of Code

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup Submission 🐛🛹

How I Stopped an AI Agent from Freezing with Two Lines of Code

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Every AI tool, agent, and site builder a developer should know in 2026

Every AI tool, agent, and site builder a developer should know in 2026

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I'm Aniruddha Adak: The AI Agent Engineer from Kolkata, and here is my story

I'm Aniruddha Adak: The AI Agent Engineer from Kolkata, and here is my story

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Anthropic Found a Mind Hiding Inside Their Language Model

Anthropic Found a Mind Hiding Inside Their Language Model

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Harness Engineering: What Every AI Engineer Needs to Know in 2026

Harness Engineering: What Every AI Engineer Needs to Know in 2026

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I Think the AI Age Will Hit Hard Before It Heals

I Think the AI Age Will Hit Hard Before It Heals

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I Think the AI Age Will Hit Hard Before It Heals

I Think the AI Age Will Hit Hard Before It Heals

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The Anatomy of an Agent Harness

The Anatomy of an Agent Harness

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How to Set Up Claude So You Never Write the Same Prompt Twice (Full Course)

How to Set Up Claude So You Never Write the Same Prompt Twice (Full Course)

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Under the Hood of 348+ Code Merges: My Open Source Evolution

Under the Hood of 348+ Code Merges: My Open Source Evolution

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The Code I Shared: Reflections on my best 29+ Merged Pull Requests in Open Source

The Code I Shared: Reflections on my best 29+ Merged Pull Requests in Open Source

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How to Actually Set Up Claude Projects That Most Users Don't Know

How to Actually Set Up Claude Projects That Most Users Don't Know

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The Ultimate AI & AI Agents Directory: 50+ Tools Every Developer Should Know

The Ultimate AI & AI Agents Directory: 50+ Tools Every Developer Should Know

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Claude Can Do All of This. Most People Have No Idea.

Claude Can Do All of This. Most People Have No Idea.

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The Ultimate Developer's Directory: 282+ AI Tools & Agents You Need to Try

The Ultimate Developer's Directory: 282+ AI Tools & Agents You Need to Try

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Chrono Shift: Time Weaver - A Time-Bending Platformer Built with AI

June Solstice Game Jam Submission

Chrono Shift: Time Weaver - A Time-Bending Platformer Built with AI

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Solstice Cipher: An AI-Powered Cryptographic Journey Through Alan Turing's Legacy

June Solstice Game Jam Submission

Solstice Cipher: An AI-Powered Cryptographic Journey Through Alan Turing's Legacy

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I Found an AI Agent That Actually Remembers Everything

Hermes Agent Challenge Submission

I Found an AI Agent That Actually Remembers Everything

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MY DEEP TECHNICAL EXPLORATION AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH HERMES AGENT

Hermes Agent Challenge Submission

MY DEEP TECHNICAL EXPLORATION AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH HERMES AGENT

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From Half Baked Repos to GitHub Glory: How I Am Finishing My Ambitious 10 App Masterpiece

GitHub “Finish-Up-A-Thon” Challenge Submission

From Half Baked Repos to GitHub Glory: How I Am Finishing My Ambitious 10 App Masterpiece

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i watched google tear down the old internet from a hostel room in kolkata

Google I/O Challenge submission

i watched google tear down the old internet from a hostel room in kolkata

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google i/o 2026 just changed everything - here's what i learned after testing

Google I/O Challenge submission

google i/o 2026 just changed everything - here's what i learned after testing

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I found a bug that could crash your Hermes agent and fixed it

Hermes Agent Challenge Submission

I found a bug that could crash your Hermes agent and fixed it

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hermes agent: the complete guide to your personal ai operator

Hermes Agent Challenge Submission

hermes agent: the complete guide to your personal ai operator

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Gemma 4 Complete Guide 2026, Architecture, Benchmarks, Deployment and more ...

Gemma 4 Challenge: Write about Gemma 4 Submission

Gemma 4 Complete Guide 2026, Architecture, Benchmarks, Deployment and more ...

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I Watched Google Cloud NEXT '26 ~ Here Is What Actually Matters for Developers

Google Cloud NEXT '26 Challenge Submission

I Watched Google Cloud NEXT '26 ~ Here Is What Actually Matters for Developers

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i burnt $127 in api credits before i fixed these openclaw mistakes

OpenClaw Challenge Submission 🦞

i burnt $127 in api credits before i fixed these openclaw mistakes

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My First Glimpse Into the Agentic Era: Google Cloud NEXT 2026 Keynote Reflection

Google Cloud NEXT '26 Challenge Submission

My First Glimpse Into the Agentic Era: Google Cloud NEXT 2026 Keynote Reflection

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The Night OpenClaw Completely Ghosted Me: My Real Headache Story as a Kolkata AI Agent Engineer

OpenClaw Challenge Submission 🦞

The Night OpenClaw Completely Ghosted Me: My Real Headache Story as a Kolkata AI Agent Engineer

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OpenClaw + GLM 5.1 = FREE AI AGENTS

OpenClaw Challenge Submission 🦞

OpenClaw + GLM 5.1 = FREE AI AGENTS

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TerraLens: See Your Planet. Shape Its Future. 🌍

DEV Weekend Challenge: Earth Day

TerraLens: See Your Planet. Shape Its Future. 🌍

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My OpenClaw Journey: 30 Hands-On Experiences That Built My Wealth of Knowledge (Kolkata AI Agent Engineer Edition)

OpenClaw Challenge Submission 🦞

My OpenClaw Journey: 30 Hands-On Experiences That Built My Wealth of Knowledge (Kolkata AI Agent Engineer Edition)

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The Hyper-Intelligent 418 Teapot: Wasting AI Compute on Tea

April Fools Challenge Submission ☕️🤡

The Hyper-Intelligent 418 Teapot: Wasting AI Compute on Tea

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