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Software Engineer - https://www.linkedin.com/in/prabodh-agarwal/
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pbd··on ExtendDB – The DynamoDB API, everywhere you run code
is this db production grade?
pbd··on Show HN: Graphmind – Persistent Memory and Graph for Claude Code (MCP, CLI, GUI)
do such graphs work at multi-repo level? or do they mostly span single repos? e.g., if I have flows split across multiple repose where theres' a combo of services/library/ci-cd tools, can this graphmind manage that?
pbd··on Nvidia's Jim Fan on the End Game for Robotics [video]
extremely thrilling & refreshing video away from text LLMs :)
pbd··on Create polished, pro-grade screen recordings – MIT Licensed
time to value on this tool is literally seconds. no gimmicks. you open it & you record your screen. the UI is insane & beautiful.
pbd··on Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
what next now tho? i co-incidentally completed watching his last vid of training up gpt-2 today :-) .
pbd··on Switzerland Engineered the Perfect Country [video]
really really good doc. i loved it.
pbd··on MCP is the wrong abstraction [video]
agreed. i use playwright mcp to do a bunch of things and then make llm dump code so that i can do something in a reproducible manner.
pbd··on Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG
https://github.com/simulanics/REFRAG
pbd··on Dwarkesh on Richard Sutton
RL researcher says LLMs won't work, LLM researchers say RL won't scale. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just shipping products with whatever actually works today. This is like watching database academics argue about ACID properties while MongoDB just took over the world.
pbd··on AWS washing their hands this halloween
SOAP API being deprecated
pbd··on Play snake in the URL address bar
ChatGPT can't invent this :-) . Love the creativity.
pbd··on Modular beat Nvidia's cuBLAS kernels on B200s in 170 LOC
kernel optimisation is paying $$$
pbd··on DOOMscrolling: The Game
wiseman. i think our generation will chase this forever. essentially our life being doom scrolled .
pbd··on DOOMscrolling: The Game
Finally, a game that accurately simulates my daily productivity. I open it intending to play for 5 minutes and somehow 3 hours later I'm still there, having accomplished nothing useful, with a vague sense of dread and the feeling that demons are chasing me. The verisimilitude is uncanny.
pbd··on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
i agree. this is very gray imo. e.g., books in India have cheap EEE editions compared to the ones in US/Europe. so they can pre-process the data in India & then compile it in US. does that save them from piracy rules & reduces cost as well.
pbd··on I ditched Docker for Podman
fair enough. thanks.
pbd··on I ditched Docker for Podman
I keep seeing Podman mentioned as a Docker alternative, but I'm unclear on when the juice is worth the squeeze. For someone doing typical web development (Node.js/Python services, Postgres, Redis), what specific problems would Podman solve that Docker doesn't? Is this more about security/compliance or are there developer experience benefits too?
pbd··on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
From a systems design perspective, $3,000 per book makes this approach completely unscalable compared to web scraping. It's like choosing between a O(n) and O(n²) algorithm - legally compliant data acquisition has fundamentally different scaling characteristics than the 'move fast and break things' approach most labs took initially.
pbd··on Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
agreed. waiting for qwen here as well.
pbd··on Eels are fish
I love these 'wait, what!' moments in biology. Thanks for sharing this - definitely going to be my fun fact for the week!
pbd··on Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction
This is genuinely exciting.
pbd··on This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)
well recycle is worth chasing as well in this scheme of things.
pbd··on LinkedIn seems to be leaking Google Docs
apparently the document was briefly public.
pbd··on This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)
The power efficiency is fascinating - modern phones are basically ARM servers optimized for battery life. Pixel 5 probably draws <5W under load vs 50-100W for a typical x86 server. For a personal blog, that's 400-800 kWh/year savings. The environmental impact of reusing vs recycling electronics is under appreciated.
pbd··on Show HN: We built an open-source alternative to expensive pair programming apps
Congrats on shipping! For adoption, have you considered integrating with existing workflows? CLI tools, IDE extensions, Slack integrations? The friction to start a pair session often matters more than the session quality itself.
pbd··on Don't Build Multi-Agents
The 'dilution effect' is real - even with plenty of context space left, agents start losing track of their original goals around the 50k token mark. It's not just about fitting information in, it's about maintaining coherent reasoning chains. Single agents with good prompt engineering often outperform elaborate multi-agent orchestrations.
pbd··on A power shortage could short-circuit Nvidia's rise
The timing mismatch is crucial - data centers can be built in 12-18 months, but new power generation takes 5-10 years minimum. We're essentially trying to scale AI demand faster than energy infrastructure can physically respond. This creates interesting arbitrage opportunities in power-rich but compute-poor regions.
pbd··on Adaptive LLM routing under budget constraints
GPT-4 at $24.7 per million tokens vs Mixtral at $0.24 - that's a 100x cost difference! Even if routing gets it wrong 20% of the time, the economics still work. But the real question is how you measure 'performance' - user satisfaction doesn't always correlate with technical metrics.
pbd··on Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights
This data is incredibly valuable for both AI companies and publishers. CF gets unprecedented visibility into who's crawling what, when, and how much. Wouldn't be surprised if this becomes a premium product - 'pay for priority bot verification' or 'detailed crawl analytics.
pbd··on Git for Music – Using Version Control for Music Production (2023)
The binary file problem is real - audio files balloon Git repos fast. Git LFS helps but adds complexity. I've had better luck with a hybrid approach: Git for project files/metadata/stems, cloud storage with versioned folders for final mixes. Keeps the repo lean while maintaining the branching workflow benefits.
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