Ahnaf.

i'm ahnaf. i'm 23. i love building stuff. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

i don't really do things one at a time. i think the early phase of building anything, a product, a skill, a decision, is supposed to be chaotic. three things moving at once, messy, overlapping. the craft isn't in doing one thing well in isolation. it's in pulling multiple moving parts together into something that produces more than what you put in.

i need to understand things. not surface-level, not “i read a blog post.” i mean actually get it. i'll tear something apart just to see how it works, whether that's a system, an argument, or a problem i probably should've left alone.

i'm fast. i'll get a whole day's worth of work done in a few hours. and when i go off-script, that's usually when the best ideas show up. i just prioritize whatever's working in my head at the time. i'll somehow always manage to be late though, unless it's life or death.

i like people who don't perform. no bullshit, no act that's going to fall apart in six years. if you work hard, work hard. if you're having fun, have fun. just be the same person either way.

most of my friends just come to me when they want to talk, or when they want the truth and not the comfortable version of it. outside of that i'm pretty chill. i'll put music on, go for a late night drive and eat mcdonalds, and not think about anything for a while. i care about dumb things like labels being peeled off stuff in public. i don't know why. it just shouldn't happen.

i like failing. not in a motivational poster way. if my first instinct is wrong, that usually means most people's first instinct is wrong, or my world view was completely fucked, which means it's not an easy problem, which means we might actually be onto something. the best kind of failure is when you fail but you fail with an answer.

CS @ University of Manitoba, graduating December 2026.