2025 Dev Journey Wrapped:
→ GSoC Fellow @internetarchive (Selected!)
→ Co-built Lenny: Open-source lending system empowering libraries & 11M+ users (Shipped!)
→ Selected for Stanford PhD research on AI coding tools (Accepted!)
→ Turned GSoC into contract role @ Open Library (Extended!) From idea to impact
→ Founded ZON FORMAT : ~50% LLM token savings vs JSON (Launched & gaining traction!) 90 Stars on GitHub within a week.
It was never about writing a code! It was all about how you thought process it every time you have to build and ship a feature or so.
Making use of AI is useful to devs. But it also brings a skills issue where you have to know a lot of things to go against AI paths.
the routine is brutally simple:
14 hours on a laptop
1 solid gym session
sleeping without caffeine or sugar in your system
repeat until your life changes.
YC;There's no business idea that hasn't crossed my mind this year. I'm even thinking of opening a new country need some Pre-seed funding's for diplomatic talks with VC's out there