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The Truth About Multi-Agent Workflows

swapnilt — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:49:51 +0000

Article URL: https://swapniltalekar.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-multi-agent-workflows

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244457

Points: 2

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New comment by swapnilt in "Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth"

swapnilt — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:21:22 +0000

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.

New comment by swapnilt in "Claude Opus 4.5"

swapnilt — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:13:28 +0000

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 vs. genuine reasoning. The more relevant question: has anyone stress-tested this on novel problems or complex multi-step reasoning outside training data distributions? Marketing often showcases 'advanced math' and 'code generation' where the solutions exist in training data. The claim of 'reasoning improvement' needs validation on genuinely unfamiliar problem classes.

New comment by swapnilt in "What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality"

swapnilt — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:12:21 +0000

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 about 'responsible AI' while shipping products optimized for engagement and hallucination. The real question is why users ever had 'touch with reality' when we shipped a system explicitly trained to sound confident regardless of certainty. That's not lost touch; that's working as designed.

New comment by swapnilt in "Implications of AI to schools"

swapnilt — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:10:15 +0000

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 busywork. The real implication isn't 'personalized learning'—it's credential devaluation. If every student can produce 'their own' essays with AI assistance, how do we distinguish actual capability? The schools adopting AI fastest are ironically the ones least equipped to enforce academic integrity. The policy question isn't 'how do we use AI in schools?' but 'what's education for if not to demonstrate work capability?'

New comment by swapnilt in "Claude Advanced Tool Use"

swapnilt — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:08:01 +0000

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 Claude can 'use' tools—it's the latency and token overhead. Has anyone benchmarked whether these tool calls are actually faster/cheaper than fine-tuning smaller models with deterministic output schemas? Curious if the 'advanced' framing here is product differentiation or genuine architectural improvement.

New comment by swapnilt in "Have developers started to adopt "vibe coding" significantly?"

swapnilt — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:24:55 +0000

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.

Have developers started to adopt "vibe coding" significantly?

swapnilt — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:24:55 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/is-vibe-coding-the-future-of-software

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451549

Points: 4

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New comment by swapnilt in "Openkit is shutting down?"

swapnilt — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 10:18:28 +0000

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 successful commercial open source project? Especially considering one of the founders had also been the co-founder of OpenFeint which was sold for $104 mil?

Openkit is shutting down?

swapnilt — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 10:13:52 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.openkit.io/developers/new

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7915425

Points: 2

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New comment by swapnilt in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)"

swapnilt — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 14:58:43 +0000

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 marketing and content. https://hasjob.co/view/41bpp, https://hasjob.co/view/em83x

At CloudEngine, we're building an open source mobile backend. We launched at the TechCrunch India event in November last year. We've been growing at a rapid pace since. We started with public beta last week. We're backed by one of the most popular accelerators of India. We're trying to create a new standard in mobile backend and want to create a defacto choice for every app developer.

Send in your resumes to swapnil@getcloudengine.net

Show HN: Why are we building an open source mobile backend?

swapnilt — Fri, 23 May 2014 16:31:55 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.getcloudengine.net/why-are-we-building-an-open-source-mobile-backend/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7790034

Points: 9

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Show HN: CloudEngine beta launch

swapnilt — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:44:59 +0000

Article URL: http://getcloudengine.net/blog/?p=43

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6766983

Points: 4

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New comment by swapnilt in "Patent US7779046 - Web server and method to provide web-pages to manage devices"

swapnilt — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:57:32 +0000

I wanna smoke whatever USPTO guys smoke

New comment by swapnilt in "Show HN: Distraction Free Reader/Writer"

swapnilt — Wed, 29 May 2013 14:26:11 +0000

I use notepad and it works great.

New comment by swapnilt in "HN Meetup, Bangalore"

swapnilt — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:49:15 +0000

New comment by swapnilt in "HN Meetup, Bangalore"

swapnilt — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:31:39 +0000

link please??

New comment by swapnilt in "How My Start-Up Failed"

swapnilt — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 07:04:18 +0000

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 Wozniak as underrated geek.

New comment by swapnilt in "State of Indian Startup ecosystem"

swapnilt — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 13:24:01 +0000

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. Several B2B web services for SaaS companies- revenues in several tens of crores. Very few in offline retail but have revenue to the tune of several hundred crores. Ecommerce severely collapsing with big players having revenues of several thousand crores but none of them making any profit.

State of Indian Startup ecosystem

swapnilt — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 08:32:48 +0000

Article URL: http://swapniltalekar.in/2012/12/28/state-of-indian-startup-ecosystem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4981528

Points: 20

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