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Essays on education, agency, AI, and what I’ve learned from five years of shipping on the internet.

I Optimized the Wrong Bottleneck

Sep 29, 2026 · 6 min read · Startups · Distribution · AI · Systems · Building

I spent months making WishCodes better before realizing product quality was no longer the thing holding it back. AI made building cheap. Distribution became the bottleneck.
We’re Educating People for a World That No Longer Exists

Sep 18, 2026 · 9 min read · Education · Agency · Systems · AI · Learning

The problem with education is not that we are learning too much. It is that we have confused remembering information with becoming capable.

Atharv Mantri · work@atharv.me · GitHub