Sandipan Basak

Building Sidecar | Applied AI | Agents Orchestration | Infra

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

Its so sad that only @ZEE5India is the official streaming partner of FIFA World Cup 2026.

The services are horrible, the ux is the worst, nobody gave a day’s thought to the design. This product was vibe coded in a day - the video controls and the overall controls are horrible in the app.

The most hurting part of it is that you gotta pay a subscription for watching fifa and you see so many advertisements - what i discovered today was that even during highlights you will see ads. And that too not just 1 but 4 consecutive advertisements for no freaking reason. And that too twice so essentially 8 advertisements in a 10 minute highlight video.

Its so sad that in India every service is just broken and people have adapted to a broken system and somehow are okay with it and still paying for it.

Same with the taxes, the current government and ofcourse the whole zee suit of media channels (with their godi praises) - and at the end Punit Goenka is getting richer day by day.

Atleast Ambanis take care of IPL streaming better.

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

@claude's '/goal' can replace GEPA entirely — same idea but way smoother in practice is what I feel.

Mid-run stop and resume works cleanly, super prompt edits are instant, and the configuration is much more flexible. You can spin up a VM, throw tmux on it, and let it run persistently until the goal is actually finished.

Best part is the iteration side. You can add custom iteration skills to Claude Code, and it does a really good job reasoning through the process — running RCA, checking logs, testing fixes, and looping as needed without constant hand-holding. Feels like a legit upgrade for prompt optimisation.

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

@nvidia being the gauntlet

[Yash Bhardwaj @ybhrdwj]

😭 bro is collecting ai companies like infinity stones

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

@ClaudeDevs yeehhhh

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

@xai = @Krutrim ?

[Claude @claudeai]

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

Too curious to check this out -- Access de do!!

Already requested.

[Alexander Whedon @alex_whedon]

SubQ is available for early access today, alongside our coding agent, SubQ Code

Get access today ↓

https://t.co/s4sgRzLkAC

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

so essentially no compensation for the hours lost. which obviously is of no value to you. regretting is the only thing that you can do.

not commenting on safety, but you should have alternatives ready when such a case arises - what do you even mean by this "Further checking we see that you have successfully boarded the flight and completed the journey. Hence, we regret our inability to assist you with any exception." -- this doesnt make sense -- you didnot provide alternate support immediately, it was after 5 hours (not 3 hours) - you expect us to cancel and get full refund and book another flight with excess charge on the same day ?? are you kidding me .. this is not a resolution you are providing -- its so sad. !

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

What a horrible fucking experience with @AirIndiaX from Hyderabad to Blr.

Flight was delayed by 5 hours and compensation was not even money or a lounge access - it was one plate of biriyani. And that too they were cribbing about take aways.

I mean it just a horrible state right now for indian airways. Let alone no sympathy and appropriate compensations for unfathomable troubles being caused daily and we dont even get to know about these.

Let it be @IndiGo6E or any other airlines getting any guarantee for the best possible service is just out of question.

You will only get the standard customer interaction 101 statements from the manangers who are trying to help people during the most horrible times and it will always be “we are trying out best” which is literally NOTHING!!

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

the manager told us that they were doing all they can to compensate -- and we were all handed 1 biriyani packet as a compensation -- there were people who had surgeries, who had critical work and was completely dependent on time -- just refreshment doesnt help us -- we need some compensation -- without that its just saying you guys will do nothing to rectify. If you are truly sorry -- COMPENSATE

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

@AirIndiaX will you compensate for the time lost to all passengers, that is the standing question -- you being sorry or noting this issue doesnt help us at all.

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

So prompt here , yet so late at the actual service.

It so easy to setup a response bot with generic urgency words and not take any actual reaponsibility. And i along with all the other customers of this flight know that neithet will you ever help us with compensation nor will you see to it that this never happens again.

Mr. Uday Kumar (flight IX1345) was the manager who couldn’t do shit for the customers when we were concerned about the delay and literally left us to our fate and we finally had to decide what is the best thing to do at that point.

Such is life for a middle class airline passenger who hasnt got much options and is desperate to get the worst possible services from any airlines in cases of emergency.

[kiruwaaaa @kiruwaaaaaa]

me realizing I've been doing prompt engineering since 2023

like a caveman rubbing sticks together

while context engineering already existed

Write > Select > Compress > Isolate

4 steps. that's it. your agent stops hallucinating. your sessions stop dying.

the guide dropped. it's free.

my reaction:

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

but bhai we reached almost agi -- why do we need to think about fundamentals -- ai thinks with first principal as much as we do.

you only guide it and take decisions.

core skills in 2026 doesnt come from coding from scratch anymore. it comes from taking decisions. so you plan thoroughly and finalize and let ai take over.

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

@atmoio Wooah!

AI can think when given instructions??

God Mode - AGI Achieved

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

@garrytan @conductor_build At $30/150$ MTok , you gotta fly! This is 6x the cost.

The cost still feels unjust when you already have a 200$ sub.

Hope to see this cost come down soon.

Achieving AGI faster than we think by the way.

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

No excuse to not work (from your phone) when you are on the move .

Thanks to @TermiusHQ

[Sandipan Basak @_bong_dev]

@AashaySachdeva reward function to samajh hee gyi hain..