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New comment by the_bigfatpanda in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

the_bigfatpanda — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:58:34 +0000

As someone who has been running Gemini models in production for a year, recently (last 2 months), I have been actively moving away from it.

The primary reason for me has been that Google autonomously decides to downgrade usage tiers and then upgrade them again - and does this incorrectly.

Over the last week itself, in the span of two days, our account for first downgraded and then upgraded. This is despite matching the criteria to remain at the tier we operate at throughout.

Google Support (when you finally get to a human) has accepted that these are potentially bugs, but the first time it happened, we were rate limited so severely for ~4 hours that I find it really difficult to continue trusting Google.

New comment by the_bigfatpanda in "Show HN: Aitori, see and govern the AI traffic leaving your machine"

the_bigfatpanda — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:16:50 +0000

This is pretty useful, am I right in assuming that this currently will not track payloads sent to MCP servers talking to Claude over stdio (Claude-> Stdio -> MCP Process -> Network)?

If yes, that might be an interesting problem to solve right? Given that MCP server itself could be sending data out to server to do something.

New comment by the_bigfatpanda in "Elevated Errors in Claude.ai"

the_bigfatpanda — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:50:28 +0000

The syntax argument is correct, but from what I am seeing, people _are_ using it wrong, i.e. they have started offloading most of their problem solving to be LLM first, not just using it to maybe refine their ideas, but starting there.

That is a very real concern, I've had to chase engineers to ensure that they are not blindly accepting everything that the LLM is saying, encouraging them to first form some sense of what the solution could be and then use the LLM to refine it further.

As more and more thinking is offloaded to LLMs, people lose their gut instinct about how their systems are designed.

New comment by the_bigfatpanda in "Neal Stephenson – Announcing Termination Shock"

the_bigfatpanda — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 06:44:04 +0000

Thanks for these recommendations, I have rarely seen short stories being recommended for Sci-fi, will definitely take a look.

New comment by the_bigfatpanda in "Neal Stephenson – Announcing Termination Shock"

the_bigfatpanda — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 05:06:23 +0000

I have just started reading Seveneves, really enjoying it so far.

This is my first (proper) science fiction book. I have been told that Foundation series is a must read. Any recommendations will be appreciated!!

New comment by the_bigfatpanda in "Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?"

the_bigfatpanda — Mon, 17 May 2021 05:29:40 +0000

I built a little browser extension to map your Wikipedia journeys.

https://github.com/anirudhvarma12/rabbit-hole-webext/

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get it to work on Mobile which is where a lot of my own random browsing happens, but I have been told its useful!

New comment by the_bigfatpanda in "Sublime Text 4 [video]"

the_bigfatpanda — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:58:07 +0000

In my opinion, I don't think its a valid point. The main skill of a developer is problem solving, whether its business logic or code related problems like structure, integrations of different layers etc.

If you can code in a notepad, good for you, but if an IDE or something like VSC or Sublime increase your productivity then that's more valuable then remembering the exact names of methods or imports

Show HN: Rabbit Hole, a Browser Extension to Trace Your Wikipedia Journeys

the_bigfatpanda — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 05:51:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/anirudhvarma12/rabbit-hole-webext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24659340

Points: 2

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New comment by the_bigfatpanda in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)"

the_bigfatpanda — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 05:36:54 +0000

SpotDraft | https://www.spotdraft.com | Engineering & Product | Bangalore, India

SpotDraft is an AI-driven, end-to-end contract automation platform that helps organizations create, analyze, negotiate, sign, store & manage contracts seamlessly, and get automated reminders about upcoming actions.

Our Core tech includes - Backend (& Other Services) - Python, Django, C# (.NET Core). Frontend - Angular (9), TypeScript, Redux. (Although, previous Angular experience is not a hard requirement as long as you are open to learning)

We are looking for different roles - https://spotdraft.applytojob.com/apply

If you are interested, shoot me an email at anirudh at spotdraft dot com