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Hi, I'm Namanyay
Technology entrepreneur, founder, & writer. Unlocking the next generation of human creativity at Gigacatalyst
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AI is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers
A couple of days ago, Cursor went down during the ChatGPT outage. I stared at my terminal facing those red error messages that I hate to see. An AWS e...
Lessons from my journey to become the founder I wish I’d met earlier
I celebrate another revolution around the great big ball of fire today. This was a big year for me: I founded my first product startup, all solo. I’m ...
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The day I taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer
A messy experiment that changed how we think about AI code analysis Last week, I watched our AI choke on a React codebase - again. As timeout errors f...
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I'm working on Gigacatalyst in San Francisco. We're backed by Y Combinator and are growing fast.
I also write about AI often. My articles garnered over four million views in 2025 and I was featured in the New York Times, Futurism, Inc. Magazine, and many more.
I discovered my passion for programming at the young age of 13 years old. With over 15 years experience in building, I have built apps used by millions of users.