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Welcome to my blog. I write about engineering, startups, and building things.
Resumes Are Dead. We're Building What Comes Next.
Last week, Business Insider published a piece that crystallized something I’ve been feeling for a while: hiring managers aren’t reading resumes anymore. The article, by Amanda Hoover, lays out the damage that AI-generated resume slop has done to the hiring process. Recruiters are drowning in polished-but-hollow applications. Companies like Gumroad and Automattic have stopped requiring resumes entirely. A startup called Vamo is searching GitHub to find engineers by what they’ve actually built rather than what they claim on paper. ...
Creating This Site With Claude
How I used Claude Code to set up a Hugo blog on GitHub Pages, configure custom domains, and automate deployments — with minimal manual effort.
Hello World
The first post on Rishi’s blog — a new space for writing about software engineering, startups, and building products.