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Shiven Aggarwal

21 y.o. creative full-stack developer. I love crafting products and experiences built around bold ideas and compelling narratives. Currently based in India.

Ithe rules第一章

How to use it

Eight rules the author lives by, copied out of inherited inhibitions. Break any of them; that is rather the point.

  1. I

    Prerequisites are a myth. Give the problem a shot first — dive in headfirst.

  2. II

    Speed matters more than we admit. There are only fifty-two weeks in a year.

  3. III

    Move fast and you hit reality constantly. The fluff disappears because there is no time for it.

  4. IV

    Confusion is where the real learning happens. Do not retreat into “learning more”.

  5. V

    Chase the feeling of making things better, not the feeling of being told you are good.

  6. VI

    Small teams always win. Three people who care over thirty going through the motions.

  7. VII

    Your ambition should scare people. If it doesn’t, it is probably too small.

  8. VIII

    Do not optimise for avoiding failure. Be so good in one dimension that you cannot be ignored.

the writer

My strong suit is machine learning research and engineering — reinforcement learning, fine-tuning, models from scratch — but I also have a strong background in web development and occasionally dabble in design and other creative areas.

current stack

Frontend & hosting
Next.js, Vercel, Cloudflare
Backend infra
AWS, GCP
Databases
PostgreSQL, Supabase, Neon
ML / research
Python, PyTorch, JAX

last updated march 2026

IIthe works第二章

WORKS

01 / 06

01 — web / ai — 2026

BOOKSMANIA

Tell it what you're going through; it finds the book.

A book-discovery site that starts from how you feel rather than what you've read — curated collections, side-by-side comparisons and AI recommendations powered by Gemini.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Prisma
  • Supabase
  • Gemini
  • Three.js

IIIthe entries第三章

ENTRIES

“the source of your highs shapes everything you do.”
— from inherited inhibitions, 2025
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