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.
- I
Prerequisites are a myth. Give the problem a shot first — dive in headfirst.
- II
Speed matters more than we admit. There are only fifty-two weeks in a year.
- III
Move fast and you hit reality constantly. The fluff disappears because there is no time for it.
- IV
Confusion is where the real learning happens. Do not retreat into “learning more”.
- V
Chase the feeling of making things better, not the feeling of being told you are good.
- VI
Small teams always win. Three people who care over thirty going through the motions.
- VII
Your ambition should scare people. If it doesn’t, it is probably too small.
- 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 — 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
also in the notebook
Smaller experiments, described in their own words.
- nano-llm↗tiny hackable llm in pure c
- pocketgrad↗a mini autograd engine that doesn’t believe in pytorch
- chess-engine↗plays like a grandmaster, looks like it went to art school
- arxivist↗what i cannot create, i do not understand
- rlgames↗exploring rl thru games
- talkemon↗spawns professional ai teammates faster than your anxiety can catch up
- lunaris↗builds your startup idea before you can second guess it
IIIthe entries第三章
ENTRIES
“the source of your highs shapes everything you do.”












