Promit Biswas

What I’m on right now

Not the highlight reel: the current log. What I’m building, what I’m leading, and what’s stuck in my head this month.

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A now page, after Derek Sivers

Building

  1. Clarity Today — news written by software, checked against its sources

    It tells builders, operators and investors what changed, why it matters and what to ignore. Language models draft every story, every factual claim goes into a ledger with the source it came from, and a headline the ledger can’t support doesn’t publish. I build and run it.

    Its methodology page explains, in public, how it reads.

    Case study: Clarity Today

  2. promitb.dev — rebuilt around the work

    This site is being rebuilt around what I build and lead. The AI-written daily briefing that used to fill it is retired, and its pages are gone. In its place come Notes: analysis I stand behind, at most one a day.

    Selected work

Leading

  1. Leading engineers at AWS

    Software Development Manager at Amazon since July 2022. The work itself is Amazon’s to describe, so it stays off this site. Views here are my own, not Amazon’s.

Thinking

  1. Agent sandbox isolation as a first-class design problem

    The Replit incident proved it. Every agent deployment from here on should start from a blast-radius diagram, not a prompt.

  2. When to let the LLM drive, when to make it a passenger

    Most products bolt AI on. The best ones reshape the workflow so the model is in the driver seat for the parts it’s good at, and locked out of everywhere it isn’t.

See the arc if you’re curious how I got here. Last updated .