Notes on AI automation, agentic workflows, and building systems that work.
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 ...
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.
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...
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 ...
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.
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.
Here’s a problem nobody talks about in AI consulting: your best work is invisible.
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...
This post is a bookmark. A table of contents. A promise.
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...
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...
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...
Today I set up my entire development environment using nothing but Claude Code and natural language commands. No Googling. No StackOverflow. Just telling an ...