Armaan Agrawal — Year in Review 2025

Activity

Monthly Commits

Personal repo commits by month

Direct count from all 51 airman416/* repos

* August 2025: GitHub's contribution graph shows 199 total — commits went to the NExT Consulting org repo (not visible here).

Projects

Top Repos by Commits

Commits by repo

Top 12 active repos this year

Language breakdown

By number of repos with commits

Project	Description	Lang	Commits
CMachine	Generate carousels for your content quickly	TS	52
Content-Engine	Reuse content across platforms	TS	28
SwipeFeedAPI2	SwipeFeed backend API	PY	26
SamParrABot	AI semantic search through MFM podcast	TS	25
Stage-AI-Home-Design	AI interior staging for real-estate (Gemini)	Swift	25
FrontierOS	Learning science for athlete training	TS	19
swipefeedllc	SwipeFeed company site	JS	17
StoryBuddy	Help pre-K kids learn to read (HackHarvard)	PY	12
DayTime	iOS 15-min check-in + daily summary	Swift	10
SeekJob	Job search automation	PY	10
StagedAIConfig	AI configuration tooling	PY	8
CodeBeat	Music from your code vibe (HackMIT)	TS	6

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Narrative

The Year in Chapters

Mar 2025 · Hackathon

AgentOps AI Hackathon — 2nd Place

Built an AI Agent via the OpenAI Agents SDK incorporating prompt injection guardrails, tool-use safety constraints, and RAG retrieval. 3-hour sprint.

OpenAI Agents SDK RAG TypeScript

May – Jun 2025 · 37 commits

SwipeFeed — Full Startup Build

iOS app, Python backend, ML recommender system (personal repos), landing pages, and LLC site. Building a company surface, not just a feature.

SwipeFeedAPI2 SwipeFeed-Lander swipefeedllc Swift · Python

Jul – Sep 2025 · NExT Consulting Co-op

NExT Consulting — Career Platform for 2,500+ Students

Architected a 0-to-1 full-stack career recommendation platform in Next.js, Node.js & TypeScript. Engineered a hybrid recommendation system combining Matrix Factorization & Cosine Similarity to solve the cold-start problem. Maintained sub-100ms latency with React Query & Zustand. Commits in org repo — not in personal graph.

Next.js · Node.js · TypeScript Matrix Factorization React Query · Zustand

Sep – Dec 2025 · Via Separations + Hackathons

Via Separations — IoT Dashboard + HackMIT + HackHarvard

As Software Consultant: owned 0-to-1 real-time dashboard (React, Node.js, TypeScript) integrating HDA & IoT WebSockets across 50+ deployments — 63% faster response times, 80% query acceleration. Simultaneously shipped CodeBeat at HackMIT and StoryBuddy at HackHarvard.

Via Separations IoT · WebSockets · ETL CodeBeat (HackMIT) StoryBuddy (HackHarvard)

Dec 2025 – Feb 2026 · 97 personal commits

Personal Product Sprint — AI Content Tooling

CMachine (52 commits, 2-week sprint — carousel generator). SamParrABot (semantic podcast search). Viral Clip Generator (RAG pipeline over YouTube podcasts via Whisper ASR + Pinecone, FFmpeg extractor for 16:9 viral cuts). Feedshare App (React Native food-sharing for campus surplus).

CMachine SamParrABot Viral Clip Generator Feedshare Whisper · Pinecone · FFmpeg

Feb – Apr 2026 · 69 commits

Content Engine + FrontierOS — Now

Content Engine: AI social copilot using tool-use architecture to transform posts across platforms; fine-tuned an LLM via HuggingFace, PyTorch & LoRA for personalized voice. FrontierOS launches in April — uses learning science to close the accountability gap in athlete training. Most conceptually developed README of the year.

Content-Engine LoRA fine-tuning FrontierOS ← now

Writing

Essays — essays.armaanagrawal.com

Oct 10, 2025

Reading is humanity's premier information transfer

Oct 18, 2025

Traditional school won't be a thing in 20 years

Oct 25, 2025

Entropy explains why we can't be ourselves

Oct 25, 2025

TikTok and ChatGPT made us all sound the same (and what to do about it)

Feb 13, 2026

The Case for Boredom

4 of 5 published in a single October burst. All argue from systems, not opinions.

Stack

Tools & Workflow

Cursor (primary IDE) Antigravity (agentic coding) Claude Code (new) TypeScript Python Swift Next.js GitHub Pro

Cursor

10 logged sessions in the past 3 weeks. Up to 5 windows open simultaneously.

Extensions: Python · Jupyter · Java · cursor-commits · cursor-retrieval

Claude Code

~24 history entries, all exploratory. GitHub MCP installed today.

Still in the "figuring out what this is" phase — which is the right place to be before you depend on it for production work.

Reflection

Growth Observations

⚡

You ship

394 commits. 28 repos. 3 essays. 3 hackathons. Most people with your interests produce ideas. You produce working things.

🧠

Sharp problem instincts

FrontierOS's README — "illusion of comprehension," athlete accountability — is not boilerplate. You identify real problems before writing code.

🔁

Sprint-and-abandon pattern

Most repos get one burst, then go quiet. The hard question: do Stage-AI-Home-Design, SwipeFeed, or FrontierOS have users? What did they say?

👁

Zero code review

0 PRs reviewed. Almost entirely solo work. Engineers who've made mistakes you haven't yet are the best reviewers you'll ever have — and they're not tools.

✍️

Writing is a real skill

The three essays hold up. You're building tools to amplify your content workflow but your public presence is still small. Use the tools. Publish more.

📅

Fall is your peak

Oct + Dec were the strongest personal-repo months (77 each). Not summer. Hackathon pressure and semester structure might actually work for you.

Gaps

What This Report Can't See

August 2025 — ~190 unaccounted contributions

GitHub graph shows 199; personal repos show 9. Where was the rest of that work?
Google Calendar

Time allocation across C4C, classes, and personal projects. The commits show that you worked — not when, for how long, or at what cost.
Antigravity usage

How much of this code was AI-assisted? How has that changed the way you work?
Product usage / real users

Star counts are a weak signal. Do any of these tools have users outside your own workflows?
Coursework

Northeastern CS curriculum runs parallel to all of this and is invisible to the commit graph.