How did they build UPI without Claude? A flow chart explains India's payment rails

sahilypatel · x · 2026-11-07

A tongue-in-cheek post asks how India managed to build UPI in an era without AI coding assistants like Claude.

The attached UPI-Payments flow chart lays out the full 10-step transaction: the payer's mobile app submits amount and payee VPA, the payer PSP routes the request to UPI/NPCI, address resolution and authorization happen, the payee PSP returns account details, the remitter bank debits, the beneficiary bank credits, and status propagates back through the chain.

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