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We can complain about it. Or we can help them master it. GDG Rajkot gave me a chance to do the second one. A hall full of students and a session on how we actually use AI to build production software every day. The best part? The questions didn't stop after the session ended. Thank you, GDG team, for making this happen. To the students who were there - start today.
Us: Which task? At Artisans, we regularly take one real task and run the leading models through it. Same prompt, same data, answers checked one by one. This time: describing and tagging 41 images. 9 models. Two surprises: → A free, anonymous stealth model (Ox Alpha on OpenRouter) almost tied the winner, Gemini 3.7 Flash. → Claude Sonnet 5, the most expensive one in the test, came third. At 5x the price of the…
Photo. Bio. A row of social links. Mine was exactly that for a long. Now, I made it a desk instead. The idea is not mine. I picked it up from Jackie Hu's and fuyofulo's personal sites, where the objects ARE the navigation. Great artists imitate and improve, isn't it? gauravmakhecha . com - go poke around 😇
Everyone has a trick to keep the Mac lid open so their coding harness doesn't stop mid-task. This is mine. A clip, and just enough gap. Not for the screen. For the air. Not the prettiest thing in my bag. But it does the job 😅 | 10 comments on LinkedIn
All these are for various government and aviation compliance, including the CUTE charge :D But then, on top of it, how do they add a "convenience charge" is a question Because price comparison is the first thing Indians do. And then some companies go for 'dark patterns'. What are the ways out?
But still, this sport is our love. And we never miss a chance to enjoy it. Rotary Premier League is very close to my heart. It starts with the auction - who goes to which team and at what price. And then match after match, under the sun and under the lights. Thrill, fun, and new memories. Every single time. Here's to many more 🏏
One popup, only the things I actually use - GDPR banners gone. Feeds hidden on YouTube, X and LinkedIn. Save to reading list, copy an article as Markdown, JSON formatter. Nothing new. All of this already exists in the store. The difference is I can read every line of mine. Small tools for yourself are the easiest AI win today. Try it. PS - yes, 215 items in my reading list 😅
So my home setup now follows one rule - the screen sits at eye level. A simple stand lifts the laptop up. The keyboard and mouse sit below. That is it. Ergonomic, they call it. And my back finally thanks me. If you work long hours at a screen, please raise it up. Your future self will thank you 🙏
Then you count it all again bcs you can't trust what it said. That was the reality at Starbucks. They put computer vision in 11k+ stores to track inventory. Every wrong scan, the staff had to catch and fix by hand. Two counts instead of one. So they scrapped it and went back to the old way. Here's the thing - AI didn't fail here. It was handed a job it wasn't ready for, without the skill to make it work. 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐬 𝐚…
Cooking is a life skill, and everyone should know it well. But it is still on my wishlist only. Someday. Had a chance to live it for half a day with friends in one of our Rotary Club events. And as you'd expect, it was a lot of fun. Thanks to Nihar Chandarana and Mehul Parmar for making this happen. Here's to many more...
One of the biggest ROI things that happened against our investment in Claude Code subscriptions is this one. A few detailed sessions to share all the details + access, and then seeing these powerful models going through the logs + reports and giving you immediate actionable steps is a wonderful experience. We have been able to save a huge amount in terms of cloud costs. It can help with security and performance…
I was fortunate enough to share my recent experience and learnings about Claude Code with the team members and some guests last week. And I just want to keep doing this. Here's to many more...
For Lumen, we built an evaluation harness that runs real business questions through the assistant, executes the generated query against a real data source, and checks that the answer is actually correct - then scores every leading model on accuracy, cost, and speed, side by side. **Learning** Accuracy came from context, not the priciest model. In our AI data assistant, every answer is measured against ground truth…
Just as most experts have been expecting. Recently, 75% of auto lenders reported that identified fraud increased over the prior 12 months. A fake borrower with a made-up credit history, a real Social Security number and a believable employment profile. Loan given and then no recovery 🫥 And similar is happening in other industries too. So, for all the companies that are not in a hurry to start using AI, now the…
Please do not use Cotton Ear Buds to clean your ears. You don't need them. You're inviting problems by using them. Here are the words of an ENT specialist from Mumbai
And we felt it this time. 100% participation from the Rajkot team. And a couple of guests 💙 Hard-hitting, tension, good fielding, tight bowling, all in a single day! Congrats to Code Strikers for the win 🏆 Here's to many more...
CI/CD has been there for years. AI have made one more thing possible. Continuous Refactoring. And it solves one of the biggest pains of maintaining software - Legacy codebases. Almost no company can sustainably keep the code 'latest + fresh' because new features need to be shipped. Example refactors: → No file longer than 600 lines. → No mystery numbers — every constant gets a name. → No silently swallowed errors. →…
People are not talking enough about "Automation" but jumping now to "Autonomous". They 'wish' to just let coding agents build and maintain systems. After looking at a few random reels from 'influencers'. But, is it for real? I don't see it happening around me yet. Has anyone in my network done it? Or even seen it at the production level?
I feared it was a hardware issue. Asked Claude Code to walk through the system logs with me. Twenty minutes later, details revealed. It detected that the machine had quietly been running out of memory all afternoon and eventually jammed. And then also made some nice config improvements to prevent the same. We talk about AI for writing code and drafting emails. But this is a nice use case. No need to wait for the…
