Kshitij Varma

@kstij

I debug developer pain for a living.

Ahmedabad, IndiaJoined August 2024

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DevRel at heart. I break complex tech into stories developers actually enjoy reading. Exploring AI, automation, security, and everything that makes builders unstoppable.

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KVKshitij Varmakstij.hashnode.devApr 8 · 8 min read

The AI Industry Built Faster. Nobody Built Smarter.

For the past two years, the AI industry has been obsessed with one question: how do we help people build things faster? The answers came quickly: Cursor made coding faster Lovable made building fast

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KVKshitij Varmakstij.hashnode.devMar 14 · 6 min read

I Tried Google Labs Whisk and Flow And I Haven't Stopped Since

I just wanted to throw a retro CRT monitor onto a flower-covered hill and see what happened. What came back genuinely stunned me. I'd glanced at Google Labs before. Clicked around, shrugged, moved on

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KVKshitij Varmakstij.hashnode.devMar 10 · 9 min read

AI Ate Pentesting. Developers Are the Last to Know.

TL;DR The traditional pentest model annual, expensive, PDF-delivered was always broken. AI just made it impossible to defend. AI agents now handle recon, CVE correlation, exploit chaining, and repor

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KVKshitij Varmakstij.hashnode.devMar 6 · 7 min read

The Env Var Problem Nobody Takes Seriously (Until Production Burns)

Most developers treat environment variables like a necessary evil. You stuff secrets into a .env file, add it to .gitignore, and move on. The problem is invisible until it isn't. A misconfigured DATAB

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KVKshitij Varmakstij.hashnode.devFeb 27 · 11 min read

How AI Is Changing Pentesting Forever

TL;DR Penetration testing (pentesting) is the practice of ethically hacking your own systems to find vulnerabilities before attackers do. Traditional pentesting is slow, expensive (\(10k–\)50k+), an

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The AI Industry Built Faster. Nobody Built Smarter.

I Tried Google Labs Whisk and Flow And I Haven't Stopped Since

AI Ate Pentesting. Developers Are the Last to Know.

The Env Var Problem Nobody Takes Seriously (Until Production Burns)

How AI Is Changing Pentesting Forever

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Kshitij Varma's blogs

Recently published

The AI Industry Built Faster. Nobody Built Smarter.

I Tried Google Labs Whisk and Flow And I Haven't Stopped Since

AI Ate Pentesting. Developers Are the Last to Know.

The Env Var Problem Nobody Takes Seriously (Until Production Burns)

How AI Is Changing Pentesting Forever