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shivnathtathe
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About shivnathtathe
Building local-first, privacy-first AI tools for developers who can't afford the cloud.
Interests: LLMs, RAG, MCP servers, MLOps, security research, bug bounty, observability.
600+ LeetCode. Research on T4NT models & LACE. Building in public. Shipping from a phone.
github.com/shivnathtathe shivnathtathe.com
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yes! opensmith export dumps to JSON out of the box. Parquet isn't there yet but it's a good shout — would just need a pandas dependency. if you open an issue I'll prioritize it.
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Comment #49058647
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Comment #48063536
Hey HN. I built this because LangSmith needs a cloud account to see my own traces. The full stack is: → @trace decorator on any Python function → autopatch() for OpenAI, Anthropic,…
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Show HN: I built an open-source, local-first alternative to LangSmith
Hey HN. Built this because LangSmith needs a cloud account just to see my own traces. pip install opensmith — everything shows up at localhost:7823. SQLite. No accounts. No config.…
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Comment #48060657
Interesting approach! I've been working on something complementary — local-first LLM observability called opensmith. Different angle but same philosophy of keeping everything local…
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Comment #48060648
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Comment #48060641
Observability is the missing piece here — built opensmith for exactly this reason, tracing agent control flow locally
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Comment #48060636
Been working on local-first LLM observability for exactly this use case — tracing local model pipelines without sending data to cloud. Happy to share if anyone's interested.
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