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I personally think stopping the use of AI is silly. I mean you could apply this logic to everything that you would be using specialized tools for, to make life better.

Why would you use a car? studies show walking is better. Why would you use a calculator? studies show mental math sharpens your brain. Why would you type on a computer? studies show writing on a physical paper is better for you.

Fundamentally people tend to use AI to get a result and then just use it instead of critically thinking over it. It makes sense, we take the path of least resistance. Why care about how something works when it just works? This leads to cognitive decline.

Rather I propose that you use AI as one of the greatest search engines ever invented. Think of AI (LLMs) as a dataset of fixed knowledge that can talk back to you and actually help you find the information you want.

When I was looking into making selenium scripts, that I had to write for work, more robust, I came up with a solution to create an object for each page and use that object to navigate and interact with the page. I then had a conversation with gemini pro regarding this where it told me that, what I am trying to achieve is technically just Page Object Model (POM), a pre-existing concept in the world of test automation. This lead to a deep dive into the advantages/disadvantages and I then pitched it as a change to better write selenium code and it was accepted at work.

Likewise, you should not use AI to vomit you code but as a rubber duck that quacks back at you [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

Antitoxic6185on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized

you seem to be leaking your access token for mapbox.com api?

'pk.eyJ1IjoiZnJpZ2dlcmkiLCJhIjoiY21jbHdmZmZmMGV3dTJpcHR5cWcwOHhzdyJ9.Z-XMMh_nFDjm8FUyB2tZ_w'

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)

    Location: Chennai, India
    Remote: Preferably
    Willing to relocate: (yes mostly if the pay is good)
    Technologies: Java, Python, applied AI/LLM applications, Golang, SQL, Linux administration, Docker, Git, Javascript/Typescript 
    Resume/CV: https://home.alles-tools.com/resume (please solve the captcha)
    Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com

I'm a backend developer for the most part but I also do full stack development if the UI isn't highly complex. Before I got laid off - I was making it @ Autodesk.

I have quite some experience dealing with LLM based applications - taming them into giving more sane answers. The best one that I have built so far lets you attach to any data sources (SQL/NoSQL/Files etc) and then just ask questions about them. Literally any question (even outside the schema) and it never makes up stuff.

If you prefer - you could directly schedule a meet @ https://calendly.com/suvarnanarayanan2g/30min?month=2025-07

If you cannot make the slots to work for the calendar above, please shoot me an email and I will do a meet at a time you are comfortable with. Cheers!

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)

    SEEKING WORK | Chennai, India | Remote 

    Technologies: Java, Golang, Angular, SpringBoot, Python, Django, Flask, SQL/NOSQL, OpenAPI, LLMs 
    Projects: https://home.alles-tools.com/
    Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com

I'm a backend developer for the most part but I also do full stack development if the UI isn't highly complex. Before I got laid off - I was making it @ Autodesk.

I have quite some experience dealing with LLM based applications - taming them into giving more sane answers. The best one that I have built so far lets you attach to any data sources (SQL/NoSQL/Files) etc and then just ask questions about them. Literally any question (even outside the schema) and it never makes up stuff.

My going rate at the moment is $5 per hour (subject to complexity and my preference) - capped at 8 hours a day for 5 days a week, which is around $200/wk at minimum.

I am very transparent about my work and I do not ask for payment beforehand and no compulsion to pay if work is not up to your standards. Also, before I take you as my client, we will do a call - this helps me to have a measure at your expectations/requirements and helps to build a bond which is something I really value.

If you prefer - you could directly schedule a meet @ https://calendly.com/suvarnanarayanan2g/30min?month=2025-07

If you cannot make the slots to work for the calendar above, please shoot me an email and I will do a meet at a time you are comfortable with. Cheers!

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: How would you go about implementing a NL tool to gather insights?

Thank you!, providing examples about tricky situations is something I will try. My company has their own azure openai deployment which is the only thing we could use to integrate into company related tools.

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: How would you go about implementing a NL tool to gather insights?

Do you mean like my approach is bad or the whole business problem in particular cannot be solved effectively?

Antitoxic6185on "Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers"

A lot of people suck up to them, they seem to require formal ID proof to authorize your account outside EU and they can deny you without any reason whatsoever. If you look up online about similar things happening to others, the standard response you would see is "If you don't like them, take your business elsewhere". I would rather pay more with digital ocean than to be treated like untouchable with hetzner.

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)

    Location: Chennai, India
    Remote: Open to it
    Willing to relocate: Yep 
    Technologies: Mostly a backend developer - Golang, Python, SQL, VPS, Linux, 
    Git, Angular, Django, Flask, Docker, SpringBoot, HTMX, Echo, Express, 
    Javascript, Celery
    Resume: https://home.alles-tools.com/resume
    Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail (dot) com

    I will be graduating in about 5 months and would love to find a nice junior
    developer role at a nice startup that focusses on impact. I have been 
    employed at a startup for more than a year and its a python shop. 

    I have a portfolio site at https://home.alles-tools.com/ where you could 
    interact with all the applications that I have made. I love creating or 
    making software that either benefit me or someone I know. It keeps me 
    motivated and I get to actually finish it.

    What's the hardest problem that I have worked with? Making the multiplayer 
    part work for my tictactoe game. Why did I make it? because I was bored at 
    university. Concurrency management is hard and its even harder to debug it. I 
    had to make sure to synchronize critical parts of the game where I update the 
    game state.

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2024)

    SEEKING WORK | Chennai, India | Remote 

    Technologies: Java, Golang, Angular, SpringBoot, Python, Django, Flask, SQL, 
    MongoDB.
    projects: https://home.alles-tools.com/
    Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com
    
    I'm a backend developer for the most part but I also do a bit of frontend 
    development in angular. 

    My going rate at the moment is $6 per hour (subject to complexity and my 
    preference)

    I am very transparent about my work and I do not ask for payment beforehand 
    and no compulsion to pay if work is not up to your standards.

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2024)

    SEEKING WORK | Chennai, India | Remote

    Thanks to HN, I was able to find one recurring client who is very happy with 
    my work, hoping to find more :) 

    Technologies: Java, Golang, SpringBoot, Python, Django, Flask, SQL, MongoDB.
    projects: https://home.alles-tools.com/
    Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com
    
    I have experience mostly dealing with web 
    applications but I'm down to make you anything that can be realistically 
    done, albeit I would need a bit more time than usual if it is not web dev.
    
    My going rate at the moment is $2 per hour (subject to complexity and my 
    preference)

    I am very transparent about my work and I do not ask for payment beforehand 
    and no compulsion to pay if work is not up to your standards.

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)

    Location: Chennai, India
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: (based on pay)
    Technologies: Java, Python, Golang, Javascript, SpringBoot, Django, Flask, 
    PostgresSQL, MongoDB,Git, Linux, Docker, AWS Lambda
    Résumé/CV: https://home.alles-tools.com/resume
    Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com

    I'm looking for entry/junior level jobs that are interesting :) 

    I'm not fresh off university (technically still in, got one more semester to 
    go), I have over one year of experience as a backend developer at a startup. 
    
    My own portfolio website is at https://home.alles-tools.com, please visit if 
    you want to look at things I have worked at (they are all live and can be 
    interacted with) and schedule a meet on calendly or connect on Linkedin.

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)

    Location: Chennai, India
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: (based on pay)
    Technologies: Java, SpringBoot, Python, Django, Flask, PostgresSQL, MongoDB, 
    Git, Linux, Docker, AWS Lambda
    Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l6QSNS0Lka2F82Slhz9ZdhiBSVk-W6G2/view?usp=sharing
    Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com

    I have ~11 months of professional experience in django and I love making 
    software applications that have an impact :) 

    Feel free to visit my portfolio website @ https://alles-tools.com/

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2024)

    SEEKING WORK | Chennai, India | Remote

    Thanks to HN, I was able to find one recurring client who is very happy with 
    my work, hoping to find more :) 

    Technologies: Java, SpringBoot, Python, Django, Flask, SQL, MongoDB.
    projects: https://alles-tools.com/
    Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com
    
    I have experience, mostly dealing with, web 
    applications but I'm down to make you anything that can be realistically 
    done, albeit I would need a bit more time than usual if it is not web dev.
    
    My going rate at the moment is $2 per hour (subject to complexity and my 
    preference)

    I am very transparent about my work and I do not ask for payment beforehand 
    and no compulsion to pay if work is not up to your standards.

Antitoxic6185on Just Use Postgres for Everything

> Personally I found it pretty easy to learn (was building apps in it as quickly as I could in nodejs after jsut 2 weeks)

Makes me feel better! I have also successfully converted one of my java spring-boot app to phoenix though I am not sure how efficient it is. It definitely involves way more magic than spring for sure! Maybe its just quite hard for me to make the jump from imperative/OOPs way of coding to the functional way.

> would love your input on what would be needed for a learning resource as I have been thinking about writing a book on phoenix for newbies.

I would love to help! I think the harder part of making such a resource is updating and staying on par with the framework devs.

Antitoxic6185on Just Use Postgres for Everything

> Also, I believe prag studio gives away 1/2 of that initial course for free

If I have read their website right, they say only first three modules are free, the whole course has 35 modules.

> there seems to be a host of free videos on YT as well as many books on elixir/phoenix

You are right about the videos, though I am not so sure about books. Phoenix 1.7 doesn't seem to have any good books for it at all.

Antitoxic6185on Just Use Postgres for Everything

I feel like it is significantly harder to learn elixir and phoenix as a newbie. The learning curve is very steep owing to the fact that good learning resources seems to be scarce, maybe not for elixir but definitely for phoenix. I have been trying to grasp it for a month now, but an up-to-date resource is nowhere to be found and oh, please don't tell me to go read the documentation. It is not meant to be read by beginners. Almost everyone in the community recommends the prag studio course but $200?? I can't afford it XD

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2024)

    SEEKING WORK | INDIAN STANDARD TIME | REMOTE
    
    Technologies: Java, SpringBoot, Python, Django, Flask, SQL, MongoDB, Golang. 
    projects: https://alles-tools.com/
    Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com

    I have experience, mostly dealing with, web 
    applications but I'm down to make you anything that can be realistically 
    done, albeit I would need a bit more time than usual if it is not web dev.

    Payment: Paypal/Remitly only
    Fees: Up for negotiation - Not looking to charge much!

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)

  Location: Chennai, India
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No (possible in a year)
  Technologies: Backend: java, django, phoenix, postgresql, node Frontend: CSS/Bootstrap, Angular
  Résumé/CV: please contact for a conventional CV, but if you 
  want a quick look at the projects I have done - please 
  visit https://alles-tools.com/
  Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com

  Looking for junior backend roles that are open for fresh graduates. I have around 10 months of experience in
  a django based startup :)

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2024)

    SEEKING WORK | INDIAN STANDARD TIME | REMOTE
    
    Technologies: Java, SpringBoot, Python, Django, Flask, SQL, MongoDB, Golang. 
    projects: https://alles-tools.com/
    Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com

    Seeking a first customer. I mostly work with Java - please be cool with it. 
    I have experience, mostly dealing with, web applications but I'm down to 
    make you anything that can be realistically done, albeit I would need a bit 
    more time than usual if it is not web dev.

    Payment: Paypal only
    Fees: Up for negotiation - but I am not going to charge much as this is my 
    first rodeo :)

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)

  Location: Chennai, India
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No (still a student, but open to 
  relocate after I graduate)
  Technologies: Java, SpringBoot, Python, Django, Flask, SQL, 
  MongoDB, Golang. 
  Résumé/CV: please contact for a conventional CV, but if you 
  want a quick look at the projects I have done - please 
  visit https://alles-tools.com/
  Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com

  I have been working semi-full time (~5-6 hours a day) for 
  the past 7 months as a backend developer using Django 
  framework at a startup after university hours. I would 
  prefer to find a job where I could work with Java, but 
  still open to python based roles if the project is cool.

  Mostly looking for internships/semi-full time 
  opportunities 
  (5-6 hours a day) and work timings around 14:00 to 20:00 IST.

Antitoxic6185on Show HN: Simple WebSocket Based Multi-Player Tic Tac Toe Game

Couldn't find anything online to play a simple tic tac toe game with my friends that didn't require signing in or was ad-free, so I made one :)

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2024)

SEEKING WORK | INDIAN STANDARD TIME | REMOTE

    Technologies: Java, SpringBoot, Python, Django, Flask, SQL, MongoDB, Golang. 
    projects: https://alles-tools.com/
    Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com

Seeking a first customer. I mostly work with Java - please be cool with it. I have experience, mostly dealing with, web applications but I'm down to make you anything that can be realistically done, albeit I would need a bit more time than usual if it is not web dev.

    Payment: Paypal only
    Fees: Up for negotiation - but I am not going to charge much as this is my first rodeo :)

Antitoxic6185on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)

    Location: Chennai, India
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No (still a student, but open to relocate after I graduate)
    Technologies: Java, SpringBoot, Python, Django, Flask, SQL, MongoDB, Golang. 
    Résumé/CV: please contact for a conventional CV, but if you want a quick look at the projects I have done - please visit https://alles-tools.com/
    Email: suvarnanarayanan2g (at) gmail.com

    I have been working semi-full time (~5-6 hours a day) for the past 7 months as a backend developer using Django framework at a startup after university hours. I would prefer to find a job where I could work with Java, but still open to python based roles if the project is cool. 
    
    Mostly looking for Internships/Semi-full time opportunities (5-6 hours a day) and work timings around 14:00 to 20:00 IST.