-ATHON Lab

A Friday dinner at Bao To Me with a surprise visit from the chef, and a week shaped by Dorian Yates’ philosophy on high-intensity training.

Mona’s birthday weekend with bowling and VR at Loco Bear, a surprise tied game with Ibhan, and a strong week of Ashtanga and a deadlift PR.

A deep RL workshop weekend, school exploration for Ibhan, and a February wrap-up with strong step count, heavy sessions, and fresh PRs.

Set up OpenClaw on a Hetzner VPS, wrapped up GPL with a third-place finish, and dialed workouts down just enough to stay match-ready.

A deep dive into Agent Skills, Mona’s baking workshop day, GPL group-stage matches, and a fully locked-in training week.

Playing more with OpenAI Codex, Ibhan’s first inter-school chess tournament, and a week balancing gym, yoga, and GPL practice.

Mona’s first mixed-doubles tournament, a comforting stop at The Madras Cafe, and a strong week of steps, yoga, and resistance training.

Revisited 2025 through five core themes, started the 2026 focus pillars, GPL practice sessions with Mona, and a week of paani-puri indulgence.

This is a follow-up to the 2025 annual review with a tighter set of constraints for 2026.

A year of steady reps: more time in the gym and on the mat, more time at home, and more time shipping things into the world.

Clean, validate, and standardize UTM parameters so your campaign data stays accurate and analytics-ready.

Self-hosted platform for Claude Agent SDK with integrated Web UI, real-time monitoring, and Docker isolation.

Exploring Claude Agent SDK, managing Ibhan’s morning routine solo, and maintaining workout consistency with Ashtanga Yoga sessions.

A stressful week as Mona’s dad was hospitalized in Lucknow - moving between hospitals, critical care, and relief as he started recovering.

Week-long family vacation exploring Wayanad, Nileshwar, and Mysuru during Dussera - creating cherished memories with parents, Mona, and Ibhan.

Direct database connections for AskPrisma, attended RL Salon and coding agents mixer, started Ashtanga Yoga 🧘‍♂️ journey with Mona, and cherishing walks with parents 🚶‍♂️.

Explored online directory monetization and AI-first solutions for traditional industries, celebrated Mona’s career break as mom and dad join us for festive season, and love being consistent with resistance training.

Added SQL wrapper support for AskPrisma, explored Shopify ecosystem for deeper vertical focus, solo weekend with tic-tac-toe mastery and Netflix, back to beast mode.

Presented at AI Bootcamp on multi-agent systems, hosted Mona’s colleagues for a house party, and hit 5x/week gym

Real-world learnings from building AskPrisma.ai using Autogen, presented at the Applied AI Bootcamp.

AI’s real-world value today lies not in replacing deep expertise, but in enabling high-leverage cross-functional work across domains.

Interactive learning app for Indian languages (Kannada and Hindi) for Grade 1 students

Shipped AskPrisma v0 🎯, fixed UX quirks & kicked off ICP discovery, solo-parented while Mona was in the US (phulka mastery unlocked 🫓), and hit near-PRs again with 6x/week resistance training.

Building a multi-agent POC with Autogen (100x boost, mild anxiety included), Ibhan started Grade 1 🎒, kicked off a morning routine reset, and added swimming 4-5x/week to the fitness stack.

The rise of coding agents calls for new ways of evaluating impact.

Built for operators and decision-makers who need clear, statistical answers, not just LLM summaries.

MCP is more than a technical protocol, it’s a strategic inflection point that determines whether you build the interface users return to or become a feature inside someone else’s product.

Reframed MCP as a plugin layer for agentic apps, kicked off Ibhan’s summer break with cricket & touch typing, filed Schengen visa for Poland + Italy, and held steady at 15K daily steps with lighter resistance work.

Bengaluru’s “Cherry Blossom” season in full bloom 🌸, Ibhan graduated from Kindergarten 🎓, pushing for <20% body fat with 15K+ steps & incline walks, dialing resistance training to 4x/week.

Built an AI Tarot Card reader with Bolt - good for quick apps, though Cursor offers better dev control.

18 years since my first job—caught up with old friends, built Ibhan an Orange Truck for school, pizza heaven at 4P’s, fitness grind continues, and INDIA WON THE CHAMPIONS TROPHY!

Built an AI Tarot Card reader with Bolt - good for quick apps, though Cursor offers better dev control.

Applied for LossFunk residency with a past project.

Deep dive into Deepseek’s chain of thought and MoE models this week.

Why understanding the difference matters for automation strategy - RPA automates tasks; APA solves for adaptive problem statements

Built an Ekadashi fasting reminder app on Bolt.

Playing with Bolt.new and NativeScript, joined Jhana Collective’s meditation chat.

Post-Beijing trip recovery mode.

Built a full-stack app with Bolt+Supabase.

Local training runs with GPT-2 detector using RoBERTa.

Testing Bolt.new vs v0.dev for POCs - interesting times in Dev Gen-AI.

Comparing GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5: found distinct use cases for each.

Deep dive into AI coding workflows via Claude and Cursor.

Read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse - lots of quotable wisdom.

Attended 1-day Vipassana course at Dhamma Paphulla - first since 2004’s 10-day course.

As a developer, AI makes me 10x more productive but at the same time, it makes me feel less like a creator; less of an artist.

Finished The Freedom Manifesto audiobook and os.me creative writing course.

Started Naval’s Almanack and 18 Maha Puranas.

Deep dive into Docker multi-stage builds and Kamal 2.1.0.

Testing ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode for language learning, setting up Hugo blog.