2026.057 min#ai#building
I Replaced My Team With AI. Here's What I Miss.
Solo building is a superpower. But superpowers have side effects.
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Pratik
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Technology executive and hands-on architect with 11+ years building and scaling engineering organizations. Three-time company builder with a successful acquisition under the belt.
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About me
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Technology executive and hands-on architect with 11+ years building and scaling engineering organizations and shipping products to hundreds of thousands of users.
Three-time company builder: grew a 30-person engineering org at AWS, co-founded and sold a blockchain studio via acquisition by Dapper Labs, and took a healthtech startup from napkin sketch to 50K+ users as founding CTO.
Currently Chief Architect at Tarobase (poof.new), building AI-powered tools for vibe-coded dApps. Proven ability to set technical strategy, recruit world-class teams, and raise venture capital.
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3xcompanies_built
1acquisition
50K+users_shipped
skills.config
TypeScript / JavaScript95%
React / Next.js92%
Node.js / Bun90%
AWS / Cloud / Infra92%
AI / ML / LLMs88%
Python / Go85%
Blockchain / Web385%
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Recent writes
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Distribution Is the New Code
AI can build anything. The hard part is getting anyone to care.
2026.056 min#ai#engineering
Your Taste Is Your Moat
AI made execution cheap. The scarce resource now is knowing what to build.
2026.048 min#ai#startups
The $0 Startup: Why Your Next Company Should Cost Almost Nothing to Build
The most expensive part of building used to be people. AI just zeroed out that line item.
2026.047 min#security#ai
Security Incidents on the Rise: Is Vibe Coding the Common Thread?
As AI-generated code floods production, the security bills are starting to come due
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Let's connect
Always open to interesting conversations and building things that matter. Based in Washington, DC.
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