Anzal Ansari

Founder & Product Engineer, Building Pensive

Building an agentic IDE for long-form fiction — AI agents that draft, revise, and verify novel-length manuscripts.

Previously Senior Software Engineer at Homebase, Head of Engineering at Wishup.co.

Open Source

babel-plugin-react-component-tagger

A Babel plugin that tags React components with file paths for easier debugging

Pinterest FullscreenGitHub

Chrome extension for viewing Pinterest images in fullscreen mode

Recent Posts

The JavaScript Event Loop: the one mental model that unlocks all async

June 23, 2026technology

How JavaScript handles async without blocking — call stack, microtasks, macrotasks, and why the order matters more than you think.


Zero to Agent Swarm, Part 2: A Party of Agents

March 22, 2026technology

From one agent to an agent swarm — specialization, delegation, shared workspaces, and parallel execution with DAGs


Zero to Agent Swarm: A hands-on guide to building AI agents from scratch

March 11, 2026technology

The mental model and roadmap for building AI agents from first principles — from a simple REPL to a full agent swarm