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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
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 1d
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
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 5d
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 · 5d
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…
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 5d
@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 · 5d
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.
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 5d
@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 · 5d
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 · 6d
Chapter 3, and with it the first 176 pages, is now live! (mng.bz/lZ5B)
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 5d
That sounds terrible lol. Diabolical is right!
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 9d
Vermont vibes this morning #smugglersnotch
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 15d
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
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 17d
lol true! Masala chai without enough masala is just tea…
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 17d
That’s really a strange piece of news. Not even sure how to process it…
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 17d
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 · 17d
EA as in the game publisher?! 🤯
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 18d
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
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 18d
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...
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 19d
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
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 19d
UPDATE: And they're back...impressive recovery. Let's see if they publish a post-mortem.
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 19d
Definitely down - the webpage simply has an ominous message that says “Rate exceeded”
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 19d
Is Claude really down? Getting a downtime warning on the desktop app…
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 19d
Sometimes there's a bump in the road...slow down, deal with it and keep going.
#Brooklyn #bumpintheroad #Fujifilm #photography #cityscapes
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 19d
Getting closer to the point where we might actually have to dust off the math books and get cracking on figuring out quantum algorithms and programming techniques - Shor's algorithm is probably a good starting point...
blog.google/technology/r...
We’re scaling quantum computing even faster with Atlantic Quantum.
Google Quantum AI was founded in 2012 and our mission today remains the same — build quantum computers that can solve otherwise unsolvable problems. We’re making steady …
blog.google
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 19d
A poignant point of view on why the immutability of email matters in a world full of AI: www.fastmail.com/blog/not-wri...
This blog post was not written with AI
Email immutability matters even more in a world of AI. Here is how we enable your use of your data, in line with our values.
www.fastmail.com
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Sai Prakash @sylonzero.bsky.social · 20d
Agreed
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