Saurabh Sikchi

@saurabhsikchi

Product Engineer

IndiaJoined November 2019

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Full stack developer. Evangelist of SOLID principles during the day, explorer of functional programming during the night. Time spent on hackernews > time spent on fb + instagram. Dream is to write an open source library used by millions. Immensely grateful to the tech-community.

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My (unhyped) Coding Agents Usage Timeline

I used to use Cursor as my IDE around a year ago. Not really a coding agent, but definitely a precursor to today's landscape. Cursor days: The Good: The best thing about Cursor was surprisingly not their AI agent, or whatever it was called back t...

Jan 225 min read

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Anki as a Superpower for Professional and Personal Growth

Introduction to Anki and Spaced Repetition For those who are unaware, Anki is the leading (I think) spaced repetition software. It is free, open-source, and extensible with plugins. What's spaced repetition, I hear the more uninitiated amongst you as...

Aug 20, 202311 min read

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Learning a new programming language (Kotlin): My Approach

For the past year, I have had to code in Java due to legacy reasons. When I got an opportunity to modernize the stack, Kotlin was the natural choice because of its modern features as well as interoperability with Java. The only problem? I didn't know...

Sep 26, 20224 min read

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"All Managers In a Technical Area Must be Technically Excellent" - Elon

During the heat of Twitter Acquisition, Elon Musk tweeted this. It caused a large amount of discussion on Tech Twitter and in the Tech community. And I mostly agree with Elon here. It is one thing to be a non-technical CEO and rely on your CTO for m...

Jun 5, 20223 min read

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Everything you need to know about ESOP

What are ESOPs? (Employee Stock Option Plans) In layman’s terms, ESOP is when a company sets aside a certain number of its shares for the employee to buy in the future, usually after a period of one year. The shares allocated for ESOP are set aside...

Mar 24, 20225 min read

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My (unhyped) Coding Agents Usage Timeline

Anki as a Superpower for Professional and Personal Growth

Learning a new programming language (Kotlin): My Approach

"All Managers In a Technical Area Must be Technically Excellent" - Elon

Everything you need to know about ESOP

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Saurabh Sikchi's blogs

Recently published

My (unhyped) Coding Agents Usage Timeline

Anki as a Superpower for Professional and Personal Growth

Learning a new programming language (Kotlin): My Approach

"All Managers In a Technical Area Must be Technically Excellent" - Elon

Everything you need to know about ESOP