# Recent writing by Paurav H. Param Owner-authored LinkedIn posts. Publication labels are preserved as displayed when retrieved; interface controls and engagement counters are omitted. ## Fly out to SF with me. Published: Sep 30. Retrieved: 2026-10-12. Original: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7511152949981507584/ Fly out to SF with me. [world's biggest collegiate hackathon, zero SF network, 2 years of rejection] As someone doing tech in Canada, you can't help but admire the tech scene in the Bay. All the cool stuff happens there; startups, money flying everywhere, silicon valley, Y Combinator. So I kept telling my circle, no matter what, I am going to go SF in the next few months, even if there's nothing to do, just to DO SOMETHING. I was having insane FOMO (Ishan Sandhu). But after 2 years of rejection, I finally got into Cal Hacks. It is the world's BIGGEST collegiate hackathon (3k+ hackers from all over NA) and has the most sponsors I have ever seen for a single hackathon (Hack the North comes realllly close tho). Past sponsors include Anthropic, Y Combinator and Citadel. Crazy how that worked out I, however, know NOBODY in SF. I also have no team. Ideally, do not want to be prompting up a masterpiece alone in some corner of the palace of fine arts. But I do want to win, badly. So if you are somebody who's: - No ego - Wants to win badly too - Not from the bay and wanna prove themselves, bonus points if u from CAN hmu! Why you can take a bet on me: - Won and failed many hackathons; been through the ringer with idea gen - Understands presentation is everything - I am agentic everything, heck even my messages are mostly agentic now ☠️ - Got the 62,500 credits from OpenAI ☺️ And if you have sauce on SF, would love to chat too (I heard they got Startup named coffee and cafes there???) ## "Wait, what does an AI Engineer intern actually do"? Published: Sep 28. Retrieved: 2026-10-12. Original: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7510370487844208640/ "Wait, what does an AI Engineer intern actually do"? (breaking down my AI Engineer internship @ Xsolla + 25 other postings) Moving from a small-team AI startup @ Cyrus, I was expecting to have to slow down but man was I wrong. Idk how they're doing it yet, but Xsolla is moving at startup pace on a global scale. And I imagine a lot of these global software companies are too. At a fast paced org, AI Engineers have SO MUCH to do. They are what help make the company go even faster. Already spending 1 week in Xsolla, and scanning 25 other AI Engineer Internship postings, including the likes of Stripe, Cohere, and Ciena, here are the four pillars for AI Engineer Interns that I see: - Unblocking human bottlenecks. AI solving friction should be your mantra. - AI-supplemented SDLC (you knew this already) - Reliability and evals is the job. Anybody can make demos that work 70% of the time - Human-gated approval & responsible integration. You can't just hand Claude all your company's tools and call it a day Fun Fact about me getting this job: I found this job via Intern Insider (huge kudos, caught it so early) and my autonomous application system applied for me and landed me the interview (more on that later 🤐) Huge thanks to Javad Manashti and Thomas Hansen for a super smooth and easy process. It's been super cool to see and meet some of the other 99 interns at Xsolla so far, so If you're an AI intern anywhere this term, let's chat! ## 2,500 applications for a 350-person room. Published: Sep 4 • Edited. Retrieved: 2026-10-12. Original: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7501542219083046912/ 2,500 applications for a 350-person room. I just spent my first night in Bangalore at the Codex meetup (part of Bengaluru Tech Week), and within 30 minutes, it became obvious why this city's builder scene is on another level. The density of the room was insane, nothing like any I've ever been in before. Turn around and a 20-year-old is running and working across multiple startups. Walk into the venue and a VP from JP Morgan is literally volunteering just to be around the current wave of builders. Then we had Karan M V (DevEx @ OpenAI ) and Sarthak Arora (Applied AI @ OpenAI ) drop in for a fireside chat. Coming in from halfway across the world, here are my biggest takeaways: 1. Build for where models are going next. If you build around current model limitations, the next release wipes out your roadmap. Build ahead of the curve. 2. This is the worst time to lack agency or say no to building. The tooling is moving way too fast to wait around for permission or for someone else to hand you a spec. 3. BLR literally feels like SF right now. Every single person you talk to is just straight BUILDING and hacking on something real. There was so much CURIOSITY in that room. 4. You NEED to get into rooms IRL. Straight from Karan MV: we spend so much time tinkering behind our screens, but being in-person rewires how you think and helps you solve problems faster. Huge thank you to Yashraj Nayak, Darijan Ducic, and Bengaluru Tech Week for bringing this together. As an ex Claude Ambassador, I know how much goes into events like this 😭🤝 I'm in Bangalore for the next 2 weeks. If you're building agents, experimenting with frontier AI, or want to grab coffee, hmu! ## Web apps aren't going to be the same anymore. WebMCP just dropped, and OpenAI put $30,000 USD up for grabs across 10 builders. Deadline is Sep 3. Here's what you actually need to know: Published: Aug 29. Retrieved: 2026-10-12. Original: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7499584167513513984/ Web apps aren't going to be the same anymore. WebMCP just dropped, and OpenAI put $30,000 USD up for grabs across 10 builders. Deadline is Sep 3. Here's what you actually need to know: AI web browsing is super messy right now. Agents need to take screenshots, chew through hundreds of lines of HTML, guess which button does what, and break so bad when the UI changes. Google & Microsoft's WebMCP means the website can FINALLY tell the agent what it can do. Feels like this always should've been there. Web apps won't be built just for human clicks anymore. We are getting closer to a native way for agents to interact with the browser we see. Think about high-stakes UI chaos, like a limited Labubu drop. Instead of watching an agent fumble through popups, dropdowns, and broken HTML, it just executes buy_labubu() natively on the page. How to get started: 1. Pick a web app (your own side project or a simple frontend). 2. Decide what 2-3 actions the agent should take. 3. Have your model add WebMCP tool declarations to the code. 4. Test it in ChatGPT's agent browser and inspect the site tools. 5. Run a prompt. Welcome to native agent browsing. The challenge describes that you either need to build a new web app or add WebMCP to an existing one. Some ideas to help you find a problem: - What app induces you with rage when you click through? ( Workday 🙄🙄🙄🙄) - What kinds of visual tasks require human TASTE but agent SPEED? - Your favourite web app, what magic agent shortcut did you wish existed? WebMCP is still experimental but zoom out a bit. Everyone saw how MCPs blew up. WebMCP has the same formula, so work with it early and develop an opinion. Hit me up if you wanna chat about it, I am super hyped by this, been hypothesizing this standard in my head for a while. Also curious to hear what websites people think need a WebMCP, like yesterday (yes, still talking about you Workday). ## France lost 2-0 and I just got accepted into the Intern Insider Fellowship. What a day ☺️ Published: Jul 15. Retrieved: 2026-10-13. Original: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7482997771117981696/ France lost 2-0 and I just got accepted into the Intern Insider Fellowship. What a day ☺️ For those curious about that second part: Intern Insider is one of the biggest job boards in Canada and the US, and they just launched a fellowship. Out of 1000+ applicants, I'm one of 25 Fellows spending the next 8 weeks building our LinkedIn presence, and pushing each other to actually land the roles we want. A lot of my posts reach students grinding through the job hunt, and I think Intern Insider can come in clutch for a lot of them. That's what actually excites me, I'd rather this become useful for you than just another line on my profile. If you don't know Intern Insider yet, stick around. I'll be sharing what I pick up along the way. Thanks to Eric D'Amico for getting this cohort off the ground and organizing all of this 🙌 ## Took this at my grad dinner. Funny how half the people at this table started as strangers at a beach party and now I can’t imagine life without them. Published: Jun 17. Retrieved: 2026-10-13. Original: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7472803956319076353/ Took this at my grad dinner. Funny how half the people at this table started as strangers at a beach party and now I can’t imagine life without them. The grind never stops asking for more, it’ll take all of you if you let it. But these are the ones who pull me out of my own head and remind me there’s more to life than the next thing. Sometimes you don’t need to lock in. Sometimes you just need good food and great people 🫶🫶