Developer Advocate · Agentic coding

I help developers make agentic coding click.

I'm Arjun — a DevRel who's a little obsessed with how coding agents actually work, and what it takes to get a developer from zero to their first real "whoa, it did that?" moment. I've also been folding origami for a decade; the two have more in common than you'd guess.

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Arjun Patel
that's me ✦
A red paper crane I folded, held in hand
orizuru · folded by me
Arjun Kirti Patel · Chicago

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 speaking at Code with Claude
speaking at Code with Claude
// hello

Arjun
Kirti Patel

Currently
Dev Advocate · agentic coding
Based in
📍 Chicago, IL
Folding since
2014
About

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.

Coding at a coffee shop
building side projects

Currently building & thinking about

  • Agent skills & Claude Code pluginsfiguring out how to hand an agent exactly the context it needs, so it's useful the moment you install it.
  • How coding agents actually thinkI read a lot of agent traces lately. Where they get lost is usually where the interesting problem is hiding.
  • Developer activationthe gap between "installed it" and "okay, I get it now." Closing that gap is most of the job.
  • Modular origamion a kusudama kick lately. Folding 30 identical units turns out to be great thinking time.

Fresh off the keyboard

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Jun 24, 2026

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.

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Mar 17, 2026

Learning Less by Doing More: Coding with AI Tools

Is it possible to upskill with AI tools?

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Feb 8, 2026

Alien Tools and Answering Machines

Introducing Answering Machines, my new Buttondown newsletter where I share thoughts on AI, machines, and the future.

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Things I've folded

Ten-plus years of paper. The same instinct as good DevRel, honestly — take something intricate and fold it down to something a person can hold.

A red paper crane held in hand
Orizuru — the classic crane. Still my warm-up fold.
A brown origami bear holding a red heart
Bear with a heart — momigami & kraft. A Valentine's experiment.

Worked with

Anthropic
Pinecone
Cohere
LlamaIndex
Appen
Speeko
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Occasional notes on AI, coding agents, and where this is all headed — plus the very occasional origami diagram.

Arjun Kirti Patel
Chicago, IL · folded with care
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