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shivnathtathe

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About shivnathtathe

Independent researcher & open-source builder from Hyderabad, India.

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

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49060823

    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 #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

    If you have any org email, you can get free chatgpt + subscription.

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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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