AI is hard. I help you understand and apply it well.
Hey, I'm Arjun! I'm a Developer Advocate with a passion for learning and a penchant for public speaking. I'm obsessed with understanding complicated things like AI, LLMs, and developer tools, and make them easy for devs to use and understand.
I love getting developers from "what is that" to "whoa, it did that?", doing so through many means: stage talks, sample apps, docs, YouTube, social media, etc.
On my website you can find my portfolio and my writing on my personal blog Answering Machines.
I've also been folding origami for a decade, if you are curious about that too
I ship, write
& fold.
Developer Advocate working on agentic coding experiences — agent skills, Claude Code plugins, and the small details that help developers activate fast. Origami maker on the side, because both are really about finding elegant structure in something simple.
Arjun
Kirti Patel
I help developers get agentic coding to click — agent skills, Claude Code plugins, and getting people to their first real "wow" fast. Folding origami for a decade on the side.
Currently thinking about...
- Agent skills & agentic user experiences — How can we make tools and docs such that you can easily use an agent to build with your tool?
- How coding agents actually work — I read a lot of agent traces lately. Can we learn anything from how modern agents work?
- Developer activation — What causes developers to activate, and what stops them?
- New model architectures — Models like TypeSafe AI's Jev and Mercury Diffusion from Inception are built different and solve different problems. Will people use them?
Fresh off the keyboard
Mainsprings, watermarks, answer boxes and other bad words for good ideas
What happens when we choose the wrong word for a technical phenomena? An analysis using watches, boxes, and finally, watermarking LLMs.
Read more →Introducing Shikhu
Shikhu is a CLI and agent skill that helps you actually learn the code your agents write — turning conceptual questions into quizzes, and quizzes into knowledge coverage.
Read more →Learning Less by Doing More: Coding with AI Tools
Is it possible to upskill with AI tools?
Read more →Recent origami from me
A mix of my own designs and folds I've made from other artists. Follow me on instagram @patelorigami
