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New comment by cmdtab in "Making MCP cheaper via CLI"

cmdtab — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:03:22 +0000

Not just cheaper in terms of token usage but accuracy as well.

Even the smallest models are RL trained to use shell commands perfectly. Gemini 3 flash performs better with a cli with 20 commands vs 20+ tools in my testing.

cli also works well in terms of maintaining KV cache (changing tools mid say to improve model performance suffers from kv cache vs cli —help command only showing manual for specific command in append only fashion)

Writing your tools as unix like cli also has a nice benefit of model being able to pipe multiple commands together. In the case of browser, i wrote mini-browser which frontier models use much better than explicit tools to control browser because they can compose a giant command sequence to one shot task.

https://github.com/runablehq/mini-browser

New comment by cmdtab in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

cmdtab — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:42:28 +0000

I would stay away from any startup for production workload.

Made the mistake. Never again.

Fly, railway, render. Avoid. All have weird show stopper bugs for any reasonable scale and you will fight against the platform compared to using big cloud.

And big cloud works better even in cases where PAAS is advertised as simpler (google cloud run and build is as easy to setup as railway but you have much more knobs to control traffic, routing, roll out etc)

New comment by cmdtab in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

cmdtab — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:16:44 +0000

Runable | Software Engineer | Bangalore | 60-120K USD depending on the candidate

https://runable.com is an AI suite for everyone. You can create decks, reports, documents, designs, websites etc by just describing what you want.

We are looking for exceptional engineers to join us as we scale. We already process 100 billion+ tokens and billions of requests monthly.

Send your best work to saksham@runable.com

We don’t do DSA, leetcode etc and have a very hands on approach to interviewing

New comment by cmdtab in "The Influentists: AI hype without proof"

cmdtab — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:03:51 +0000

Pretty much every x non-political/celeb account with 5K followers+ is a paid influencer shill lol.

Welcome to the internet

Every product still shipping buttons is legacy

cmdtab — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:56:47 +0000

Article URL: https://fortunate-anchovy-938.notion.site/Every-product-still-shipping-buttons-is-already-legacy-2e3fb5780e7480a68154f217a1be573f?source=copy_link

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559944

Points: 2

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New comment by cmdtab in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

cmdtab — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:35:25 +0000

Yeah. If my claude code usage was on API directly, it would be in thousands. I know this because I have addon credits on top of the max plan because I run into weekly limits often

New comment by cmdtab in "The State of AI Coding Report 2025"

cmdtab — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:48:16 +0000

I saw your example and it was a simple cli tool. Of course you can have claude make commits effectively to it!

List of Presentation Tools

cmdtab — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:11:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/runablehq/Awesome-presentation-tools

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047213

Points: 2

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New comment by cmdtab in "The kind of company I want to be a part of"

cmdtab — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:15:32 +0000

We want to hire engineers who really pay attention to details and great product experience but it’s quite rare in practice. Hiring is super hard.

New comment by cmdtab in "GPT-5-Codex-Mini – A more compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex"

cmdtab — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:22:47 +0000

If any open AI devs reading this comment section: is it possible for us to get api access at runable.com ?

Runable - Design Agent To Create Anything

cmdtab — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:25:59 +0000

Article URL: https://runable.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45824773

Points: 1

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New comment by cmdtab in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)"

cmdtab — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:55:53 +0000

Runable is a general purpose AI agent for any task you can think of. You can create presentations, websites, docs, reports, videos, images, use over 3000+ services, control remote browsers, etc.

I’m looking for savvy people with potential to grow quickly who wants to work at a startup. If you want to take ownership, learn and be a founder in future. This is the place for you.

Shoot me an email with your github or portfolio: saksham@runable.com

New comment by cmdtab in "Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account"

cmdtab — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 07:53:16 +0000

I tried flight control but it was a bit buggy and rough. My docker image worked differently on their platform compared to other PAAS.

Lot of issues with slow AWS provision or missing APIs on AWS side so it would take hours to delete resources created by them.

New comment by cmdtab in "Americans traveling to Europe will have fingerprints scanned under new rule"

cmdtab — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:57:55 +0000

I paid, booked a flight etc for having a 360 scan and giving my fingerprint just to be able to apply for a US visitor visa (which could be rejected but they would still keep all your information)

New comment by cmdtab in "Build durable workflows with Postgres"

cmdtab — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 09:19:24 +0000

They inherit all the limitations of DO. For example, if you want to do anything that requires more than 6 TCP connection. Every fetch request will start failing silently because there is no more TCP connection to go through. This was a deal breaker for us. Their solution was split our code into more workflows or DOs.

You are limited to 128 MB ram which means everything has to be steamed. You will rewrite your code around this because many node libraries don't have streaming alternatives for things that spike memory usage.

The observability tab was buggy. Lifecycle chart is hard to understand for knowing when things will evict. Lot of small hidden limitations. Rate limits are very low for any mid scale application. Full Node compatibility is not there yet (work in progress) so needed to change some modules.

Overall, a gigantic waste of time unless you are doing something small scale. Just go with restate/upstash + lambdas/cloud run if you want simpler experience that scales in serverless manner

New comment by cmdtab in "Build durable workflows with Postgres"

cmdtab — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:31:25 +0000

Temporal required re-architecting some stuff, their typescript sdk and sandbox is bit unintuitive to use so would have been an additional item to grok for the team, and additional infrastructure to maintain. There was a latency trade off too which in our case mattered.

Didn't face any issue though. Temporal observability and UI was better than DBOS. Just harder to do incremental migration in an existing codebase.

New comment by cmdtab in "Build durable workflows with Postgres"

cmdtab — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:19:23 +0000

Needed checkpoints in some of our jobs wrapping around the AI agent so we can reduce cost and increase reliability (as workflow will start from mid step as opposed to a complete restart).

We already check pointed the agent but then figure it's better to have a generic abstraction for other stuff we do.

New comment by cmdtab in "Build durable workflows with Postgres"

cmdtab — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:47:48 +0000

Recently moved some of the background jobs from graphile worker to DBOS. Really recommend for the simplicity. Took me half an hour.

I evaluated temporal, trigger, cloudflare workflows (highly not recommended), etc and this was the easiest to implement incrementally. Didn't need to change our infrastructure at all. Just plugged the worker where I had graphile worker.

The hosted service UX and frontend can use a lot of work though but it's not necessary for someone to use. OTEL support was there.

New comment by cmdtab in "MoonPay executives may have sent $250k to Nigerian scammer"

cmdtab — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 06:02:27 +0000

I find it interesting how Americans roll over open corruption now

New comment by cmdtab in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)"

cmdtab — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 22:44:19 +0000

Runable | ONSITE - Bangalore | Full Time | https://runable.com

Runable is building general purpose automation agent to automate anything digitally possible.

We are hiring for backend/platform focused full stack engineers, video editor and a community manager intern.

https://runable.notion.site/Careers-at-RUNABLE-20dfb5780e748...

Apply. We have a simple take home for engineering role unless you have a solid github or stuff you built we can check.

Task: Build a simple orchestrator that runs a coding agent in the background inside firecracker instances with novnc support.