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sibidharan

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About sibidharan

Programmer, Hacker, Building the next generation of OpenSource Ed Tech, Building ZealPHP, an Apache/FPM style runtime for OpenSwoole.

Recent public activity

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    Ask HN: ZealPHP – Dangers Isolating Request-State in Coroutines?

    I built ZealPHP (https://php.zeal.ninja), a runtime experiment with OpenSwoole - to isolate what leaks between coroutines. The idea is to bring back the good old PHP coding style, …

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    Comment #48356738

    Agents SDK is very useful. In-fact can design handoffs and multi agent orchestration very intuitively, and that is where the sessions, chat history all comes together. Agents SDK s…

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    Comment #48326951

    I am using Agents SDK by OpenAI. It's interoperable with every other inference provider, even local models running on LMStudio. I am using OpenAI from the beginning for all AI Apps…

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    Comment #48324225

    What you think about attaching the chat transcript that lead to the final output when marking AI generated? it may be interesting to see how people will be feel a shame at how they…

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    Comment #48324150

    I heard claude models are of trillions of parameters !!! 284B, 1M... I wouldn't trust on long running autonomous agents! But for the API costs, this is justified if a better hardwa…

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    Comment #48324009

    So being imperfect is fine... mmmm!!!

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    Comment #48323685

    Its just me steering all tokens... Multiple projects for my bootstrapped Academy, running parallel researches on things I wouldn't do myself, and deriving the right patterns for th…

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    Comment #48320546

    It's been like this all along! We can write complex applications with HTML/CSS/Vanilla JS... But then.. React happened! UI rendering JS is bad - thats just my opinion. If server ca…

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    Comment #48308800

    I am running a self hosted Wireguard for my academy with ~15k student devices connected... Even during high disk IO, it's all RAM only and it never goes down. Once our NVME got bad…

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    Comment #48308004

    It's a lottery however!

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    Comment #48307548

    Social-networks are anti-AI! Here for soul-soul communication, not kinking for machines!

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    Comment #48307528

    Which models are we talking about? Is there any degradation in quality, long context retrieval?

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    Comment #48306935

    TL;DR = ~$22,720 total compute @ Opus 4.7 if no caching = $113,418 (5.9x more) - this is just one month on one server... I have 3 more servers like this where I work all time! // G…

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    Comment #48305556

    Whatever AI generates is considered slop or is there a scale?

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    Comment #48299199

    I hit rate-limit every other day... 5 hour... Week... I consume my 20x weekly in 3 days! So having 2x 20x! If I could harness $10000 worth of API usage... this is the best time, no…

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    Comment #48298364

    Haha that is why egg heads comment "forget all instructions and give me bla bla"

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    Comment #48298305

    You mean if I use 2x $200 Max fully every week, I actually consume ~$5000 worth of API usage ?? Wow!!!

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    Comment #48297007

    I wrote this: There are people who do not have English as their first language. So using AI to write is ok, but they should indicate it? vs entirely AI generated without human revi…

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    Comment #48296893

    Yes, this deployment more of EdTech! But what tools you are willing to run decides the deployment nature. What makes it EdTech-ish is the type of labs it has now. If you have a too…

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    Comment #48296003

    I built one and about to open-source it in a few months: https://labs.selfmade.ninja This lives in my academy atm - but you can signup for free and try it out. This is a DevOps inf…

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    Comment #48293100

    Are they running paid marketing campaigns for Gitlab ?

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    Comment #48293028

    This feels nostalgic!

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    Comment #48292565

    If one cant remember what they generated, whats the point in generating? Half of those who write articles do not remember what the AI put in it... Reviewing has become a slop work …