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Listing Intelligence is a Chrome extension I built: it reads an Amazon product page, sends a small fleet of Claude agents to research it, and hands back a compliant, ready-to-publish title and Item Highlights. Here's what I made, and how it works under the hood.
Somewhere along the way, 'ask the model a question' turned into 'run five narrow agents and make one of them argue with the others.' Here's how I actually build these things now, using the Amazon tool I made as the example.
I built an agent that decides whether an Amazon listing 'meaningfully changed.' Then I got stuck on a simpler question: how do I know it's any good? This is the little exam I built to find out, and the bug it caught in my own code.
When I started building with LLMs I thought the skill was writing the perfect prompt. Building a real agent taught me the prompt is maybe a tenth of it. The rest is everything you wrap around the model so it stops being random — and most of that only shows up when the thing has to actually work.
I don't sell on Amazon. But the idea that a platform's AI could quietly rewrite your product title and drop your own selling points, without telling you, got under my skin. So I built an agent that catches it. This is what I made and why.
योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः — Yoga is the stilling of the whirlpools of the mind. We are the sum of what we've stored. And every time we revisit a memory, we quietly rewrite it. My swadhyaya on the second sutra.
For months I sat and watched Claude plan, my terminal frozen, my hands idle. Then I found ultraplan. This is my read on what it actually is, and how I've started using it.
अथ योगानुशासनम् — Now begins the discipline of yoga. But why now? Because the version of you reading this can't be the one who walks the path. My swadhyaya on the very first sutra.
I studied Material Science at IIT Kanpur. Today I write software for a living. Here's what nobody tells you about learning computer science from the outside in.
For years, I carried more than just weight. I carried exhaustion, brain fog, and the quiet frustration of knowing I wasn't operating at my full potential. Last September, reality hit hard. Something had to change.
Yoga is not just physical exercise for me. It's a deep spiritual sadhana — my way of using this human body to touch a level of peak consciousness, to transcend, to become more than I was yesterday.