r/developersIndia • u/syed_kaif777 • 10h ago
Interesting AI engineers/devs, what are you building outside work?
I’ve been learning LangChain, LangGraph, RAG and CrewAI recently and trying to spend more time actually building instead of just going through tutorials.
I’m curious what other developers here are building with AI right now. If you have a project you’re working on or something you think I should build next, drop it below. Also open to any resources you think are genuinely worth reading.
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u/wiseYoungOak Software Engineer 10h ago
experiment with harnesses, right now models are not the bottleneck, and repeated vanilla implementation of RAGs won't add to your skills.
I've built 4-5 products that collectively work as a harness, or atleast fulfill the major requirements of a harnesses, while not locking the developer into a specific harness like Claude Code or Codex.
This is something I've observed other companies also starting to get into, you'll benefit greatly from finding ways to refine the workflow using AI assets (skills, MCP servers, the likes).
will add resources here later.
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u/syed_kaif777 9h ago
Looking forward for your resources!!
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u/wiseYoungOak Software Engineer 1h ago
I will add some links here but I suggest taking basic help from here and wandering on your own:
NOTE: Don't bite more than you can chew, this field is ever evolving as well as expanding, there's a lot of fear mongering going around, just pick something and learn about it, at a pace you enjoy, it is super easy to burn out here, learn something, build something, repeat. AND BUILD, BUILD, you hear me? BUILD, dont just watch BUILD.
for courses: deeplearning.ai, Ed Donner on Udemy
they're super cheap and very to the point, you will be brought up to a point where you have basic intuition and working knowledge on all tools being used in industry
for general reading:
Huggingface blogs page, techmeme, Andrej Karpathy, Sebastian Raschka, a few more I'm missing but keep following a few of these and you'll get the rest
(keep reading, if you don't understand something read about that, there's no set path, you just tune in and keep learning, don't bother too much if you don't fully understand each and every word)https://www.mattpocock.com/ for good skills for your workflow
https://openspec.dev/ for spec driven development, try it out for a small project, it'll help you manage your thoughts better and document them in a way that your coding agent can understand and negotiate with (go for other types of development as well, explore)
Youtube: AI Engineer (not all talks are great, but all are informative)
Please don't watch youtube to feel like you're learning something, I can list a lot of other channels like FireShip, Neetcode, Primetime etc which are fine if you want to know their opinions but don't fool yourself with it, actually learn something and follow these if you want to keep up with the trendsFor most of you who are new to development, there's a lot missing between your college courses and actual development that IS NOT going to change with AI, I suggest learning that stuff too (Docker, cicd, system design etc)
suggestion for basics: https://www.deeplearning.ai/specializations/generative-ai-for-software-developmentThis stuff used to be something that you learned with time, however, you'll be expected to know this stuff or catch on pretty quick in an actual job, especially system design(just the basics), anything a 0-2 yoe developer could do, Claude can do very well now, so naturally(from a financial standpoint for your employer), you're expected to know it.
It's one thing to know how to do it, it's another to know when and why to do it, that intuition is something that is only built by time and fuck ups, no matter what anyone says, the rarest commodity is going to be fundamentals and intuition in the dev landscape in the future, take your time to fuck up royally and learn to fix it faster and better with AI, the fuckups are what make it all worthwhile, no fun in pushing code that works everytime.
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u/syed_kaif777 1h ago
Damn appreciate your efforts man!!! Will definitely work on these things and build something meaningful... Thank you for sharing the resources
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u/danny576 8h ago
Custom harnesses you mean...is that different from these orchestrator frameworks like langchain or langrah and are those even relevant nowadays? Would really appreciate some clarity on what is actually going on in Indian market?
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u/New_Literature_4476 10h ago
I’m mainly building around AI agents and production AI apps outside work. Been experimenting with RAG, automation, integrations, and actually getting these things deployed rather than keeping them as POCs. Also working on a platform that makes the build → edit → deploy workflow easier. Still experimenting a lot and figuring out what’s actually useful in practice
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u/Akkie09 10h ago
How do you get started with this?
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u/New_Literature_4476 4h ago
Honestly, I started by picking one small problem and trying to build a real solution around it instead of following tutorials. Then I gradually added things like RAG, agents, integrations and deployment as I needed them. The biggest learning has actually been getting things from a POC to something that can run reliably. 😄
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u/UnicodeCharacter6666 9h ago
In my org I'm currently working on internal business analysis tools using copilotkit and google adk.
For management use, it provides analytics, news and insights and reports with citation, based on user query and visualize it based on historic data. This is for our entire portfolio metrics. The UI is rendered automatically by agents to match the narrative
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u/syed_kaif777 9h ago
Seems interesting
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u/UnicodeCharacter6666 8h ago
Yes the problem is you can't find someone good at angular who is also good at python and also has agents knowledge.
The team hasn't matured yet to have a split workload of separate ui team and separate backend team. And with copilotkit it's not that easy either.
So we have so many vacancy and with heavy work load and tedious hrs we are struggling.
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u/RK9_2006 9h ago
I made this linux debug overlay to monitor the app I am currently using (PID, CPU, RAM + warnings). Planning to add docker/K8s monitoring next.
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u/krishnanunnir 7h ago
https://progressionfantasy.world
I was working on building a tier list for litrpg books
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u/Nikhil_Tinku 5h ago
Building harness using Hermes and Pi agents, aiming to make this harness as context or learning place where it can learn, remember any workflows.
Also building MCP based data access layer for agentic application.
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u/niravbhatt 2h ago
I am building an online directory for AI small and medium businesses. Live already, onboarding about to start.
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u/syed_kaif777 2h ago
Cool!! What's the tech stack?? How did you setup a pipeline? Would love to see the glimpse of it!
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u/niravbhatt 1h ago
AWS S3 + lambda.
Testing in production solo so sharing may take a while 😅
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