AI's real customer is developers, not chatbot users
Every platform eventually monetizes whoever actually pays the bills — advertisers for Google and Facebook, and developers for AI. ChatGPT has ~900M users but on…
Software & ML engineer, founding engineer, and avid runner.
I’m Naad, a software and ML engineer based in Pune, India. I’m a founding engineer at Sparkonomy, where I’m building the agentic layer underneath the creator economy — AI agents and the systems around them that handle the admin so creators can focus on their craft. I previously co-founded StepNex Technologies. I write code that makes sense, not just code that works, and build for coherence over velocity. When I’m not building, you’ll find me running marathons, rock climbing, or trekking in the Himalayas.
AI's most confidently wrong habit: ignoring 'don't touch other files'
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Spotify's anniversary icon is bad design — but maybe great marketing
Spotify's new anniversary icon breaks readability and brand rules, and designers are cringing — but it got everyone talking. By changing the thing people tap te…
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- Sparkonomy
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- StepNex Technologies
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- Viridium AI
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- Smollan
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- Constituents AI
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- MUJ IEEE CS
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- HackX, Manipal University Jaipur
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