My daughter and I planned a trip to Timbuktu. For good reasons. Mansa Musa, perhaps the richest

This week, I learned: cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:8000 now lets you create a quick

I conducted a session on Sat, 19 Sep 2026 at Shree Niketan Schools — Teachers' AI Q&A - Shree

I heard a lot about Jev - a new kind of model from TypeSafe. It's available on OpenRouter.

For over a year, now, I've been trying to enroll myself into the Indian Fast Track Immigration

It was interesting to see how weak a model Claude 4.5 Haiku is, compared with other frontier models,

This week, I learned: Everything I own, owned suggests that agentic reverse-engineering of firmware

Priya Dialani interviewed me for a podcast. Here's the rough summary: What do you and Straive do?

Nano Banana (gemini-2.5-flash-image) did a pretty good job converting my parents' wedding photos

This week, I learned: Swiggy Money on MCP (also a ChatGPT plugin) exposes MCP endpoints that let your

I delivered a 15-minute keynote at Jio Institute's Convergence 2026 at NTU on Thursday. The topic

At work, we have to change passwords every 2 months. The password rules are stringent and it

Last week, I saw that local agents are good but slow. Today, I benchmarked the speed and cost. On my

This week, I learned: I know that fact-checking 2000 page PDFs is error-prone, so'd do it

I save prompts and prompt fragments I regularly use with ChatGPT, Claude, etc. (Prompt fragments are

Some ideas on what we can do less, thanks to AI. Why? Because less is more and we keep getting advice

Last year, I shared how local LLMs are expensive. There are only 3 reasons to use them over an

Over the last few weeks, I asked 166 people: What's something you did not ask AI last week,

In 2025, I made a number of predictions on this blog. (Not intentionally. I just said stuff.) I asked

Two months ago, I was impressed at the ingenuity of a lady who used a plastic cover to watch videos

This week, I learned: psub is a neat fish option to treat command outputs like file inputs. Eg diff (

Sugar (or condensed milk) in tea I get often stays unmixed at the bottom. I forget to stir it. Is

I ran, an experiment in Straive. I asked my colleagues to mail me any questions or tasks that they

When I was at school, I assumed that teachers in the staff room would mostly be discussing students,

Many people commented that they liked my comic illustrations and asked how I create them. Here is my

This week, I learned: Kamakoti: "Entry (to the course) is relatively easy but the exit is

I'm a fan of the Code Mode approach - ie letting agents run code rather than narrow functions.

On 16 July, my auditor sent me a draft Indian tax return: a refund of Rs 3 lakhs. I gave ChatGPT my

This week, I learned: I continue to be amazed at how efficient video codecs are compared with

It's amazing to watch the cost of intelligence falling. In Nov 2023, we had college-junior level