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Notes on AI automation, agentic workflows, and building systems that work.

  • 2026-05-22

    An Engineer Got Laid Off by Atlassian — and Gave a Masterclass on the Way Out

    A couple of weeks ago, a systems engineer named Vasilios Syrakis posted a video titled “I was laid off by Atlassian.” Eight years at the company, ended in a ...

  • 2026-05-11

    Turning a Room Into a Website You Can Walk Through

    Saw a reel one morning. Tried the thing it showed before lunch. It’s evening and I’m writing this. That’s the whole backstory.

  • 2026-04-28

    A Detour from Tax Bots: Building a Boutique Storefront in Six Hours

    Most days, I’m teaching machines how to politely refuse GST portal captchas. Over the weekend, on a quiet Sunday, I built a dress shop instead — start to fin...

  • 2026-04-21

    The Return That Moves Real Money: Automating GSTR-3B End-to-End

    If GSTR-1 is the loud, frantic front-of-house — invoices, tight monthly deadlines, a credit note here, a netting-off dance there — then GSTR-3B is the quiet ...

  • 2026-04-19

    What I Learned About Forms 15CA and 15CB This Week

    Earlier this week I was on a call with a well-reputed senior CA. At some point the topic drifted to Form 15CA — which, until that moment, I’d never heard of.

  • 2026-04-09

    How I Taught a Robot to File GST Returns at 2 AM (And Why a Kerala CA Firm Loves Me Now)

    There’s a particular flavor of human suffering reserved for whoever has to file GSTR-1 for a beauty parlour at the end of every month.

  • 2026-04-01

    The Invisible Employee Problem — Why I Built a Visual AI Org Chart for a CA Firm

    Here’s a problem nobody talks about in AI consulting: your best work is invisible.

  • 2026-03-31

    2–3 Hours of Portal Checking, Done in 15 Minutes — How an AI Agent Monitors Income Tax Accounts Daily

    A CA I work with has a roster of clients with active proceedings on India’s Income Tax e-Filing portal. First Appeals, Penalty Proceedings, Arrear Demands, H...

  • 2026-03-31

    Building in Public: An AI-Powered Compliance System for a CA Firm — Series Introduction

    This post is a bookmark. A table of contents. A promise.

  • 2026-03-31

    I Built an AI Agent That Checks the Income Tax Portal and Sends Notices via WhatsApp — Here's Exactly How

    A CA asked me to check a client’s Income Tax portal for new notices and send them a summary on WhatsApp. Routine stuff — the kind of task that happens 40 tim...

  • 2026-03-31

    The CA Firm Automation Playbook: Why AI Agents Are the Biggest Leverage Play in Indian Tax Practice

    There are roughly 370,000 practicing Chartered Accountants in India. Almost every one of them — or someone on their team — logs into the Income Tax portal mu...

  • 2026-03-30

    Why Every SMB Needs Agentic Workflows in 2026

    There’s a gap forming between businesses that use AI as a tool and businesses that use AI as a worker. The difference is agentic workflows — and if you’re ru...

  • 2026-03-30

    I Used Claude Code to Automate My Entire Setup — Here's What Happened

    Today I set up my entire development environment using nothing but Claude Code and natural language commands. No Googling. No StackOverflow. Just telling an ...

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