Naman Kumar

AI Fullstack Engineer

Building agentic coding tools at Amp all while navigating Strava routes, GPX trails and stack traces.

Sharing insights and experiences from software engineering, travel stories from around the world.

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Writings

Near-Duplicate Detection with Simhash

How I built a HTML→Markdown→Simhash pipeline to detect near-duplicate pages and cut crawling costs by avoiding redundant fetches.

October 7, 2025

The End of Thinking

I used to Google things and actually learn them. Now I ask AI and immediately forget. Are we outsourcing our brains into obsolescence, or is this just thinking evolved?

September 25, 2025

How to Build an Agent

Ever wondered how those fancy AI agents work? Spoiler: it's simpler than you think! Let's build one from scratch in Node.js with less than 300 lines of code.

August 26, 2025