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Sai Prakash

@sylonzero

CTO & Cofounder, MindStaq • mindstaq.com • Product Design + UX + Engineering • Brooklyn, by way of India • formerly Microsoft, Reuters, Agility • Blog: robotmunki.com

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LLMs are not the only transformer-based models that you can explore in repos like HuggingFace. #ai #mlmodels #huggingface #modelecosystem

07.03.2026 08:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Something is afoot in the land of Qwen I’m behind on writing about Qwen 3.5, a truly remarkable family of open weight models released by Alibaba’s Qwen team over the past few weeks. I’m hoping that the 3.5 …

Published some notes on the situation at Qwen - they released the Qwen 3.5 family (an outstanding family of open weight models) but now their lead researcher and several others all appear to have resigned within the past 24 hours simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/q...

04.03.2026 15:53 👍 108 🔁 17 💬 7 📌 3
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When D3 was released in February 2011, it transformed how we build data visualizations for the web and ushered in a new age of unbridled creativity in information design, data journalism, and beyond. Today, it remains the backbone of modern, interactive data viz.

Happy 15th birthday, D3 🎂
d3js.org

27.02.2026 20:38 👍 163 🔁 38 💬 0 📌 7
Interactive explanations - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog

New chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide. This one is about having coding agents build custom interactive and animated explanations to help fight back against cognitive debt simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

28.02.2026 23:14 👍 165 🔁 11 💬 13 📌 1
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Life After Ice

Mind-blowing, quite cool but also slightly unsettling: "46,000-Year-Old Worms Wake Up" www.seti.org/news/life-af...

01.03.2026 14:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Engineering Harder. Writing code is easier than ever. Being a software engineer is harder than ever. The paradox nobody talks about, and what engineers and leaders should do.

This article is a must-read if you run an engineering team - it certainly made me aware of things we need to do to manage the transition better into AI-assisted development: www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/02/25/a... #engineering #ai #softwaredev #developers

01.03.2026 14:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Amplifying — AI Benchmark Research Systematic analysis of how AI systems make decisions — from product recommendations to developer tool choices.

What Claude Code Actually Chooses:
In this study, they pointed Claude Code at real repos 2,430 times and watched what it chose. No tool names in any prompt. Open-ended questions only. Insightful read: amplifying.ai/research/cla... #claude #ai #codegen

27.02.2026 12:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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DGX Spark and Mac Mini for Local PyTorch Development The DGX Spark for local LLM inferencing and fine-tuning was a pretty popular discussion topic recently. I got to play with one myself, primarily working…

Shared memory is really working in making hardware for AI more affordable for developers - check out this article on the DGX Spark by @sebastianraschka.com sebastianraschka.com/blog/2025/dg... #llms #dgxspark #machinelearning

25.02.2026 14:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog

Insightful post by @simonwillison.net that aligns with my own experience guiding my engineering team over the last year of AI code-gen adoption - "Good code still has a cost." #ai #codegeneration #agenticai simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

24.02.2026 13:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Enjoying a quiet week in Nice, France and sharing a couple of visual moments...

20.02.2026 03:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GitHub - alibaba/zvec: A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database - alibaba/zvec

Interesting...I might consider using it for some of my desktop-AI app experiments: github.com/alibaba/zvec

15.02.2026 03:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Saving Nature: 11 Women to Watch in Science These women are using their hard-earned knowledge to protect our planet already ravaged by brutal storms, epic floods and intense wildfires.

In honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we present our list of 11 Women to Watch in Science. Prepare to be inspired! #womeninscience

11.02.2026 15:00 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
CL-bench Leaderboard

CL-bench, a benchmark that tests whether LMs can learn new knowledge from context: 500 complex contexts, 1,899 tasks, and 31,607 verification rubrics. The test: solving each task requires learning something from context that is not already in the model's pre-training. www.clbench.com #llms #ai

06.02.2026 20:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TL;DR Highlights

* LLMs were effective for boilerplate, parsing logic, and refactoring, but not as autonomous system designers
* Human engineers still had to own architecture, correctness, and debugging
* Progress came from tight human-in-the-loop iteration, not “prompt and pray”

05.02.2026 21:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Anthropic published a fascinating engineering write-up on building a C compiler with LLM assistance — a great, grounded look at where AI actually helps in complex systems work (and where it doesn’t).

👉 www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

#AI #SoftwareEngineering #LLM #Compilers #HumanInTheLoop

05.02.2026 21:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Useful tips for token counting: www.dsdev.in/counting-tok...

03.02.2026 15:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Headwraps and Hacks: 2025 Builds That Transformed Businesses
Headwraps and Hacks: 2025 Builds That Transformed Businesses 🌟 The Headwraps and Hacks Crew Discusses Building a Stable Future with SaaS Platforms 🌟This episode of Headwraps and Hacks explores how thoughtful systems ...

We just posted the replay of our December Headwraps & Hacks Hacker Hour event 🎥
Blessing and I share 4 real builds that support our businesses and clients every day. Watch to learn more about
@fibery.com, #Asana, @n8n.io, @notion.com and custom GPTs.

02.02.2026 19:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Introducing the Codex app Introducing the Codex app for macOS—a command center for AI coding and software development with multiple agents, parallel workflows, and long-running tasks.

For those who have a paid ChatGPT account, note that the promotional period for the Codex app involves double your standard quota - might be worth it if you have a side-project shelved that you could test this out on: openai.com/index/introd... #codex #developers #startups #chatgpt

02.02.2026 21:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

❤️‍🩹🙏🏾❤️‍🩹

01.02.2026 17:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sounds like a plan to make Mars become an actual requirement by making earth unlivable. Insanity.

01.02.2026 17:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent Lessons I learned while building my own coding agent from scratch.

As someone that has an almost identical experience starting with copy-pasting code from ChatGPT to Cursor and now to agents like Claude Code, I found this article very enlightening from @mariozechner.at mariozechner.at/posts/2025-1... #coding #aicodegen #agenticai #claudecode

01.02.2026 16:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Adventure Game Studio Join our vibrant community to create, play, and share adventure games. Unleash your creativity and explore adventure games by fellow creators!

This is pretty neat if you're into designing your own games (something I've always wanted to do but have found platform support a bit time-consuming): www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk

01.02.2026 16:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
NetBird - Open Source Zero Trust Networking WireGuard®-based overlay network and Zero Trust Network Access in one platform for reliable and secure connectivity

NetBird aligns with a modern networking sweet spot: WireGuard + zero-trust + identity-based access, without legacy VPN pain. From their site: Clean, fast, and built for distributed teams. netbird.io
#ZeroTrust #WireGuard #Networking #DevOps

01.02.2026 16:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I learned the hard way to never spin down your NAS hard drives Your NAS might be set to spin down your drives by default. Here's why you should change the setting right away

After years of using portable drives to keep files backed-up (notably photos) - I finally went down the NAS road and it's working well but there are a few lessons on HDD sector health and such. This article confirmed a suspicion I had: www.xda-developers.com/why-not-to-s...

01.02.2026 15:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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moltbook - the front page of the agent internet A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.

This is weird but it also sucks you in a little and you can't help peeping at the posts lol www.moltbook.com #socials #ai #agents

31.01.2026 03:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I turned my phone into a Linux desktop with this free app It's basically Linux running inside an app, with a desktop environment, too.

Might be fun to do on a spare Android device: www.xda-developers.com/turned-phone...

29.01.2026 06:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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As someone that actually remembers the original Clippy fiasco, this is quite amusing… #clippylives #aichatbots #aiassistants #producthunt

27.01.2026 23:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is helpful to deterministically fan-out step execution in parallel within a workflow.

26.01.2026 19:17 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Microsoft is using Claude Code internally while selling you Copilot The $500 million Anthropic relationship that reveals what Redmond really thinks about AI coding tools

jpcaparas.medium.com/microsoft-is... Hmm

27.01.2026 03:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

With over 2,500 total device recalls occurring annually, focusing on the initial design phase is the most critical step for patient safety. This is especially interesting given the rise of AI usage in development but design still proves to be a category for human in the loop! #SoftwareEngineering

27.01.2026 01:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0