Aman Verma

On code samples that drift

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:35:09 +0530

The code sample in your README is wrong. Not catastrophically — just enough to make the next person reading it run go build, get an error, and wonder if the problem is them.

I’ve been bitten by this enough times to build a tool around it. But the tool isn’t the interesting part. The interesting part is how this happens, and what it says about the shape of your documentation.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, I’m Aman.

Software engineer in Bangalore. I lead the backend team at Staple — we build document-processing AI that turns invoices, contracts, and statements into structured data.

Before Staple I spent 3.5 years at Fold , a consumer fintech. I built the mobile app, worked across the backend, and ended up doing more than that — growth, marketing, ads. The user base went from 10k to 150k while I was there.