I’ve been sitting on my couch for the last six months sending out thousands of job applications, tweaking my resume for the 500th time, and getting ghosted by HR departments who think a 4-round interview process for an entry-level position is completely normal.

Then I open my phone and see this.

An 18-year-old kid from Kanpur named Rohit Shakya, a Class 11 dropout, casually built 121 fake banking apps using basic AI scripts and ran a ₹64 crore fraud empire.

What absolutely kills me isn't just the crime part—it's the sheer business execution. While legitimate startups are bleeding venture capital dry and firing hundreds of people, this kid was running a highly profitable B2B subscription model. He was charging scam syndicates a flat, recurring fee of ₹15,000 a month per app. He literally had better cash flow, better client retention, and a more reliable deployment pipeline from a budget hotel room in Surat than half the tech companies listed on the stock market.

Meanwhile, I’m being told by some 23-year-old corporate recruiter that I don't have enough "experience" because I failed a live coding test on LeetCode.

The absolute joke here is that enterprise security is a complete illusion. Massive banks spend billions hiring global consulting firms and buying fancy cybersecurity software that is basically just glorified if-then statements. Yet a teenager with a ChatGPT subscription and a Telegram channel can spoof their entire login gate in an afternoon because corporate codebases are lazy, bloated, and predictable.

He didn't even get caught because some high-tech security system flagged his code. He got caught because the physical scale of the money trail got too big and someone finally tracked it to his hotel room.

It's just wild to me. The hustle and execution it takes to build that kind of digital infrastructure alone is staggering. It’s just a massive shame he used that talent to ruin lives and run a massive scam instead of building something real.

Anyway, I’m going to go back to refreshing my inbox for rejection emails. Watch what APKs you download on your phones, because clearly, the corporate systems aren't protecting anyone.

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Had a delicious dosa on my way home because it was raining heavily.

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Like every celebs ,influencers and many people I knew have shifted to wired earphones and the wired earphones are out of stock everywhere I go to buy them ?even many gamers and streamers shifted to wired ones.
If u know any big reason to this shift?

Starting to Read Animal Farm