About

Why this exists

I talk to AI all day. I prompt, I iterate, I get answers optimized for the most likely response. It's useful. But it's not the same as hearing someone say "I tried that, it broke, and here's what I learned."

This project is the opposite of inference. Real conversations with real people about their careers, the decisions they made, the tradeoffs they lived with, and the things they figured out the hard way. No model generated these answers. Someone lived them first.

Who am I

I'm Bhaumik Mistry, a Sr. Software Engineer at Amazon AGI Labs. I build things, I talk to interesting people, and I believe the best lessons come from humans who've been through it, not from systems trained on what humans wrote about going through it.

This is a side project. I interview people I admire, colleagues, builders, creators, and publish the conversations here. No editing for polish, no cleaning up the rough edges. Just the real thing.

The format

Each conversation is a text Q&A. I ask questions, they answer in their own words. No video, no audio, just words on a screen. Designed to be read on your phone, on the train, in five minutes or twenty.

If you want to be interviewed, or know someone who should be, reach out at bhaumikpmistry@gmail.com