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Writing about software development, AI, startups, and things I learn along the way.
Who Is Ritesh Bastola?
A software developer from Nepal, currently living in Buffalo NY, building Nepal's first AI hiring platform while finishing a Computer Information Systems degree in Buffalo, New York — 4× Dean's List honoree.
Building HireNP: Nepal's First AI Hiring Platform
How I co-founded and built HireNP from scratch — an AI-powered end-to-end hiring platform for Nepal, using Next.js, Python/FastAPI, LangChain, and PostgreSQL.
RAG Explained: Why Language Models Need a Memory System
Retrieval-Augmented Generation isn't a buzzword — it's a fundamental fix for one of the biggest structural problems in how large language models work. Here's what it actually is, how it works under the hood, and why it matters more than most people realize.
AGI: What It Actually Means, Why It Matters, and Where We Actually Are
Artificial General Intelligence is the most used and least precisely defined term in AI. I want to cut through the hype — what does AGI actually mean, how is it different from what we have today, and what does the path toward it do to AI development right now?