Hemant Jain

Craft over hype.
Product taste · AI that works because it’s measured.

[Hemant Jain @JainIsLive]

I care less about what AI can demo
and more about what it can reliably do.

I spend my time on product taste, harnesses, and evals,
the unglamorous work that makes systems feel magical.

If that resonates, you'll like it here.

[Hemant Jain @JainIsLive]

What I check before any AI app goes live:

• no secret in the frontend, ever
• .env in .gitignore before the first commit
• a secret scanner on every push
• a spending cap on every AI key
• if one leaks: rotate it first. Deleting the commit isn't a fix

[Hemant Jain @JainIsLive]

Leaked API keys don't expire on their own.

GitGuardian retested secrets it had confirmed valid in 2022. In January 2026, over 64% still worked.

What the 2026 data says about AI-written code and leaked keys:

[Hemant Jain @JainIsLive]

It's not only GitHub. Escape scanned 5,600+ public vibe-coded apps and found 400+ exposed secrets, including OpenAI keys and admin payment keys.

Many sat in frontend JavaScript bundles. Anything shipped to the browser is public.

[Hemant Jain @JainIsLive]

@philipletts "designed around a specific assumption" is the bit most people skip. if you can't name what it's testing, it's not an MVP

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@David_cbolt the Claude limit forcing a social break is a classic. what's ContextBolt solving?

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@mika_systems replaying 3,600 historical orders and matching the totals is the part that makes this believable. and 17 flagged instead of guessed

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@heysajib "an agent that can't reach people is a very confident diary" is a great line. delivery is the part demos never show

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@MingyuLi98 120kg to 80kg is a great reason to build it. one tip: commit to git after every working step, so a bad prompt is one click to undo

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@Anoyroyc talk to users first, and it costs $0. then spend the $500 on a prototype for the 3 people who said "I'd pay for that"

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@RiverKhan the creator CPM math (recent median views × US share ÷ price) is the most useful part of this. most people pick on follower count

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@HeyDjekyll finance being first makes sense. that's the team with the most spreadsheets-turned-apps touching real money

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@GaneshKompella "more code, not more software" is the cleanest way I've seen it put. the bottleneck moved from typing to judgement

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@ali_ilhami the "times the AI tried to cheat" section is the one I want to read. was it gaming the tests to make them pass?

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@meta_alchemist a launcher's a great fit: clear spec, easy to measure. the real test is how it holds up after 6 months of updates

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@notnullptr the joke works because hand-written software has had all three forever. the difference is who understands the code when it happens

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@im_Abhi10600 ship the landing page ugly and early. the first 10 visitors will tell you which UI fixes actually matter

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@himanxu0 10 is very doable if you go one by one. DM 30 people who have the exact problem instead of posting for everyone

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@bendee983 the line is basically whether you'd want someone else's data running on it. clean way to split them