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Sai Prakash

@sylonzero.bsky.social

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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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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · Aug 24

I spend most of my day in either coding, running a startup or music (I play the tabla) + photography.

Here's what I mostly write about in this account:
- Code / AI-related experiments, tools
- Security incidents that alarm me
- Engineering architecture, algorithms
- A few photos from time to time

Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 3d

Haven't given this a whirl yet, but the idea of a vulnerability scanner for your MCP services is a good one of course: github.com/cisco-ai-def... #ai #security #mcp

GitHub - cisco-ai-defense/mcp-scanner: Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities

Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities. Contribute to cisco-ai-defense/mcp-scanner development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 3d

Always amazing to read stories about the greats like Ken Thompson but this para at the end after he joined Google: "But eventually Thompson joined the three-person team that would create the programming language Go." 🤯 Just his latest contribution...

Full article: thenewstack.io/ken-thompson...

Ken Thompson Recalls Unix's Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins

Ken Thompson's vivid recollection of the rowdy roomful of geeks at Bell Labs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.

thenewstack.io

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John Resig @johnresig.com · 5d

I've been using @tanstack.com Start for a new project and it's super good. The server functions completely replace the need for TRPC/GraphQL/REST, the middleware is composable and fully typed, and having TSRouter's nice typing and stateful search params is icing on the cake. A+!

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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 7d

Always amazed at the work in PyTorch - it's already a backbone for so much ML work - and now they release: Monarch, a distributed programming framework that brings the simplicity of single-machine PyTorch to entire clusters
pytorch.org/blog/introdu...

Introducing PyTorch Monarch – PyTorch

pytorch.org

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 8d

I recorded a ten minute video showing my vibe-coding process for building a tool for sharing formatted terminal sessions via copy and paste using the new Claude Code for web - now available on YouTube here www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQvM...

More notes on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/23/...

Using Claude Code for web to build a tool to copy-paste share terminal sessions

YouTube video by Simon Willison

www.youtube.com

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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 9d

Right after I posted my rant on VZero enshittification, I see this pop up on Wired lol: www.wired.com/story/can-ai...

Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?

Cory Doctorow’s theory of “enshittification” explains how tech platforms rot from within. As AI grows more profitable—and powerful—it risks the same fate.

www.wired.com

Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 14d

I'm really fucking angry at what's happened with v0 as I have a bunch of active projects in it and they're all at risk. Not finding much humor in anything related to it. I'm going to troll them until someone responds.

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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 14d

WTF. I use Cursor and I’ve used Claude Code and it’s lower powered than what I already do, Max. Not sure where you are getting this idea that I’m a noob but you’re way off base. I use V0 for UI ideation and it was brilliant…

Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 14d

@vercel.com has really disappointed me with the latest V0 platform. Trusting that they will uphold quality has become a frequent source of disappointment with AI-based apps these days. Poor model choices, loss of a previous fine-tuned model that had amazing output, bad UI/UX. I am so bummed. #vercel

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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 14d

The version of v0 from a few months ago was literally UX gold. It was so good. I am really concerned that we will never get back that quality as something fundamental has been removed/upgraded to a very poor version.

Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 14d

@vercel.community @v0.dev What happened to v0? The new designs coming out of the chat for basic things look terrible. The model being used is making repeated mistakes where previously it was perfect! Something has gone terribly wrong with the platform update...is it the switch to GPT5? Tailwind 4?

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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 14d

Claude Skills - it's interesting how AI features basically mirror things that human devs do as we mature and get more organized. Considering how well-known this is, I'm surprised that this stuff doesn't come out faster from the AI platforms out there... www.anthropic.com/news/skills

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Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) @sebastianraschka.com · 14d

Chapter 3, and with it the first 176 pages, is now live! (mng.bz/lZ5B)

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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 14d

That sounds terrible lol. Diabolical is right!

Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 18d

Vermont vibes this morning #smugglersnotch

Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 24d

Definitely an ecosystem one cannot ignore, due to the sheer opportunity volume: developers.openai.com/apps-sdk #openai #chatgpt #apps

Apps SDK

Learn how to use Apps SDK by OpenAI. Our framework to build apps for ChatGPT.

developers.openai.com

Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 26d

lol true! Masala chai without enough masala is just tea…

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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 26d

That’s really a strange piece of news. Not even sure how to process it…

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 26d

If you've been trying to figure out DSPy - the automatic prompt optimization system - this talk by @dbreunig.bsky.social is the clearest explanation I've seen yet, with a very useful real-world case study www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Zt...

My notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/4/d...

Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound AI Pipelines

YouTube video by Databricks

www.youtube.com

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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 26d

EA as in the game publisher?! 🤯

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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 26d

This is a very useful background on the architecture of learning systems: little-book-of.github.io/maths/books/... #ai #ml #machinelearning

Chapter 8. The Architecture of Learning: From Statistics to Intelligence – The Little Chronicles of Mathematics, and the Mind of Machines (TLC3M)

little-book-of.github.io

Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 26d

ChatGPT-5 is facing the issue of any chat tool that really tries to insert a ton of parallel routing/retrieval and other steps before responding to a request. I'd be curious to know what the time-to-first-token value is - as an end user, it's pretty slow and starting to annoy...

Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 27d

The value of what you're creating might be directly proportional to how much you worry about the laptop on which it's happening. I've started to worry about my M4 MacBook Pro for the first time in a long time... #randomthoughts

Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 28d

UPDATE: And they're back...impressive recovery. Let's see if they publish a post-mortem.

Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 28d

Definitely down - the webpage simply has an ominous message that says “Rate exceeded”