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swapnilt

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About swapnilt

I like building and ripping stuff apart.

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    The real mind-bending part isn't the distance, but the implications for deep space exploration. We've essentially hit the practical limit of real-time control from Earth.

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    Opus 4.5's scaling is impressive on benchmarks, but the usual caveats apply: benchmark saturation is real, and we're seeing diminishing returns on evals that test pattern-matching …

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    The headline reads like a therapy session report. 'What did they do?' Presumably: made more money. In seriousness, this is the AI industry's favorite genre—earnest handwringing abo…

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    The framing here is typically optimistic. Three years in, we're seeing AI primarily used for homework completion (defeating the stated purpose of learning) and administrative busyw…

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    The 'tool use' framing is interesting but feels like a rebranding of what's essentially sophisticated prompt engineering with structured outputs. The real limitation isn't whether …

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    I'm curious to know the impact people are seeing due to this trend. I also wonder if "vibe coding" can be successfully applied at all to push production at all.

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    Another one bites the dust in BaaS space. Although the project had a decent userbase, not a lot of pull requests are seen in the github repo. Is it really difficult to build a succ…

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    CloudEngine ( https://getcloudengine.net ) is hiring FULL TIME Python/Django, Android geeks. Location - Pune, India or REMOTE. We're also looking for interns who can handle marketi…

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    Comment #5868069

    I wanna smoke whatever USPTO guys smoke

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    Comment #5786421

    I use notepad and it works great.

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    Comment #5578302

    link please??

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    Comment #5011963

    Interesting to know about Tesla and Edison. I've always seen somewhat similar parallel between Jobs and Wozniak. For all his greatness, I always see Jobs as an overrated CEO and Wo…

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    That is a very broad question. But there are several in mobile VAS who have done very well. Mobile advertising, who have revenues of several thousand crores and hugely profitable. …

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    Comment #4979204

    Isn't that stuff already very well documented in Python's own documentation?

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    Comment #4979201

    Nope. Its far more easier than C++, Java. I'd say even easier than other in its league such as Perl, Ruby, etc. but that would be argued I know. But no doubt, its a good candidate …

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    Comment #4978326

    I guess you're talking about only Python. Well, as I said its one of the easiest language to pick up. Python's own documentation is a very good start. "Introduction to python" and …

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    Comment #4978265

    Not very surprising. When I think of connections, I rarely think of Linkedin. I don't know what sucks about it, but something surely does :)