Lucky Arya

Full-stack Developer | Building & learning publicly | Sharing my learning : code, bugs, solutions & mistakes

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Still fixing resume formatting + cover letter generation, but honestly building this has taught me more than watching tutorials for months.

Sometimes the best projects come from solving your own frustration

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Spent the last few weeks applying to jobs and realized I was wasting hours on repetitive work.

Copy job description → paste into LLM
Copy resume → tailor it again
Rewrite points manually
Generate ATS-friendly version
Write cover letter
Write cold email
Download PDF
Rename file

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Repeat for every application.

So I started building a tool for myself using FastAPI + Next.js.

Now it can:

generate a tailored resume from a JD
calculate ATS score
generate cold emails
customize content automatically

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Feels like we’re building a world with maximum efficiency and minimum resilience.

AI should augment human capability, not replace it completely.

Maybe I’m overthinking it.

Or maybe we’re moving too fast to notice the trap we’re creating.

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The current AI era feels like the calm before the storm.

A few years ago, AI felt like a cool tool. Now it feels like a dependency.

We’re slowly moving from: “AI helps me work faster”
to “I don’t know how to work without AI.”

That shift honestly scares me a little.

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Companies are replacing people with AI to increase productivity.

But what happens when the “black box” fails?

Server outage.
Security breach.
Hallucinated outputs.
Massive price hikes.

Most people won’t even know how to solve problems manually anymore.

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@meesha_learns Figma really chose violence against manual documentation

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This took 3 days of focused work.
Revised WebSockets, Redis caching, and Nginx deployment.

Still waiting to hear back from the company. But leveled up regardless.

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Got a take-home assignment from a startup.

Task: Build a real-time project management system with WebSockets, MongoDB, Redis, full auth, and deploy it on a VM with CI/CD.

Here's what I built in 2 days 🧵

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What I built:
✅ JWT auth
✅ Real-time task board (instant updates across users)
✅ Project CRUD + role-based access
✅ WebSocket auth
✅ CI/CD pipeline
✅ Clean architecture Deployed and live.

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This week in job search:

Applied to 250+ jobs
Sent cold emails and DMs
Got 3 interviews
2 ghosted me
1 went really well (backend AI dev)... still waiting for reply

Built list of 45 companies to email Monday

Graduate in 1.5 months.

Not gonna lie, the stress is heavy.

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Some people watch Netflix before sleeping, some scroll reels

Meanwhile, I love watching AI tutorials

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@TommiPedruzzi Pro

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@MythThrazz Huge congrats, Marcin! That first jump from 0 to >0 is always the hardest. The momentum starts now!

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@meesha_learns True for precision work like gaming or CAD, but a MacBook trackpad with multi-touch gestures is arguably faster for UI navigation and switching workspaces. Different tools for different tasks!

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@meesha_learns 16 gb since 2020

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@Varun1jan That's true

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Just finished this Gen AI playlist.

Best resource I've found for actually understanding how to build AI apps.

@rohit_negi9 explains LLMs, APIs, RAG, and tool calling better than any other course I've tried.

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@markoilico Send me brother