back to building

For about 8-9 years, I was a Product Manager.. I loved it – genuinely.. The role fit me well. I was good at it..

But something nagged at me.. Quietly. Persistently.

I’d open a codebase and feel like a tourist. The syntax had moved on… The tooling had changed.. The instincts I’d built up in my early coding years had gone quiet somewhere around 2015 – and every time I tried to pick it back up, just getting started felt like too much work. It wasn’t that I couldn’t learn. I just couldn’t get myself to break the ice ..

Then, Agentic IDEs happened.. !!

VSCode + Cline + LM Studio got me to actually open a terminal again. Cursor made it feel less painful. And then Claude changed the game – not because it writes code for me, but because it keeps up with where my head is going. Fast enough that I don’t lose the thread..

That gap between thinking and building – that used to be where my momentum died..

The thing about coming back after almost a decade is you’re not the same person who left… I see systems differently now. I ask better questions. The PM years weren’t a detour – they gave me context. And now I get to build with that context, instead of feeling like it came at a cost.

This site is the first thing I’ve shipped in years that’s fully mine. Not a Jira ticket. Not a PRD someone else built. Mine.. !

That feeling? I’m not giving it up again. 🙂