Technical consulting across product features, performance, APIs, frontend, and shared engineering infrastructure.
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Ankit Popli
I work across product, engineering, architecture, and execution. I like taking messy problems, figuring out what actually matters, and building something that works.
If you're working on something interesting yourself — and want to talk through the technology, the business, or the problem you're trying to solve — let's connect.
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What I'm focused on right now
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Read all →Recent thoughts
A Quick Fix Is Different From the Correct Fix
A quick fix can be useful without being the underlying fix. AI makes that distinction more important as it gets better at generating solutions.
Read moreTreat Your Agent Like an Intern
AI agents are becoming capable of making decisions and taking actions. Maybe we should secure them the way we secure software: with small responsibilities, limited permissions, and workflows designed for mistakes.
Read moreTime Travel Is to Science What Consciousness Is to AI Models
How theoretical possibility can keep an idea alive long after practical possibility becomes uncertain.
Read moreAI-assisted
There’s a lot more here than would have been realistically written from scratch. AI helped turn years of scattered notes, projects, and experience into something coherent. The underlying work and context are mine; AI helped with the digging, structuring, and writing.