Bhardwaj Rish

There’s a Indian tale of an elephant and 6 blindfolded people. Each is made to feel a different part of the elephant. One touches the bushy little tail and shouts, it’s a rope! Another touches its massive leg and shouts it’s a tree! One says it’s a spear, another says it’s a wall, and so on. Each person comes up with a different answer, based on the perspective they’re made to look at the giant from. Now you could say they’re all wrong, but that’s not true. The lesson I’m drawing: given the information they have, none of them is wrong. Each, in their own reality, is right. Life is much the same. If “life” is a massive blob filled with colors and objects and emotions that everyone gets a different pinhole to view and experience from, we’re all going to have different perspectives. Each person will establish their own ideals, belief systems, and rights-vs-wrongs. So everything that anyone ever does, is right . (right != morally correct) It is the right thing to do given their world, give...

June 2025 was the last time I wrote code by hand. And it is the last time I will have ever written code by hand in my life . Yikes! That's taken me a few days to sink in.  I remember my undergrad days when I'd code all night building Webmail  and Lifehacks .  I'd read up every design pattern, every article, scour StackOverflow for every question that remotely related to what I was doing, and naively try to apply it for my use case. In retrospect, I was learning how to build long term maintainable projects.  It was difficult, most examples I found online were either too easy, or too difficult to follow. It was an arduous, gradual process, but I believe that's what it takes for humans to get good at something. It's March 2026 now. 9 months since I last wrote code by hand. I have submitted over 5,000 lines of code at the company I joined a few months ago. I have made over 2,000 commits to personal projects . And every single one was written by an AI. I'm not vibe ...