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Full write-up: anindyac.me/blog/news-engi… Or just try it: ask.samvadhq.com — ask about the last few days of Indian news (corpus is only ~5 days deep right now) and check the sources it gives back.

I built Samvad that answers questions about Indian news and cites every claim. But it had a flaw. Its retriever was an LLM, and that was the bug. How I rebuilt it: anindyac.me/blog/retriever…

@KenTheRogers This post came on my feed when Claude prompted me this. haha

How is it that I’ve never heard a single engineer in my entire life mention a smoke test and yet agents talk about them as if their existence depends on them

Seems like @prisma has guardrails against AI Agents. Interesting.

@NateMatherson But can it run Crysis?

If your WFH desk setup doesn't cost more than a used Honda Civic, you aren't serious about your pipeline. My ergonomic chair is built from the salvaged suspension of a 2019 Tesla Model S. My primary monitor is a converted IMAX screen I bought from a bankrupt theater in Oakland. When I drag a cell in Google Sheets, I physically have to rotate my entire torso. I burn 400 active calories a day just searching for the Slack icon. Stop complaining about back pain and optimize your environment.

MongoDB has some of the most beginer friendly tutorial and guide on AI Engineering. mongodb.com/resources/use-…

Building this on the side - type an Indian news story, get a cited report on how the press covered it. Today's test: India at the G7 2026 👇 A timeline of who reported what, and how the framing differed across outlets. Free to try → ask.samvadhq.com.

Before going to sleep saw I have already consumed 85% of my weekly usage. Had a moment of oh fuck. Woke up to 51% usage. ＼⁠(⁠°⁠o⁠°⁠)⁠／

Most agent failures come from applying intelligence where rules would do. Agentic where judgment genuinely adds value; deterministic everywhere else.

Full write-up: anindyac.me/blog/news-engi… Or just try it: ask.samvadhq.com — ask about the last few days of Indian news (corpus is only ~5 days deep right now) and check the sources it gives back.

And if there's no coverage for your question, it just says so instead of making something up. That one decision did more for trust than anything I changed about the answers.

Been building a thing called Samvad on the side. You ask it about Indian news, it answers, and it shows you the actual articles it used so you can check it yourself. Wrote up what I figured out building it 👇

GCP Billing is so confusing. They asked me to Preload credits in AI Studio to use the API. Now showing the usage in GCP Billing Console too but with discount/savings. So how does this work?

Gemini Embedding 2 is getting expensive for my side projects. Considering switching to something self-hostable. What have others used here?

Might be a unpopular opinion but currently Sonnet 4.6 is faring well for me compared to Opus 4.8.

As I lose my reasoning skill with usage of Claude Code and Codex, I have started reading the reasonings done by the models. Often it's a goldmine.

Wanted to learn D1, R2, KV, Workers, and Pages (Cloudflare Stack). So I built something stupid. Upload a food pic. Get roasted by a grandma. Mine got a 2/10. Deserved?? Try yours: roast-my-plate.pages.dev/card/a709837a-…

Some Android apps automatically read or paste content from your clipboard when you open them. Does anyone know how to stop this? It feels a bit intrusive. I’ve noticed it with apps like Axis Bank and Truecaller. Any way to prevent this behavior?