Lakshmi Narayanan G

CS Leader | Behavioral economics + systems thinking + data | Learning ML | Writing about retention, experiments | Building in public

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@harleyf @eastdakota @tobi So basically you actually took the challenge of "if you're so good, fix it yourself" seriously, fixed it, and got paid for it too? Wild!

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@robinebers Generative Pretrained Transformer x.y is a perfectly acceptable model name. Literally the standardized name. Codex is not

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@MilesMogul MasterCard World or World Elite. ICICI EPM works. Gets you upgraded directly to the top-1 tier on MBS Sands Lifestyle membership.

Used it on April to get free access for wife & myself to the observatory deck.

https://t.co/PmDrMxOkan

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@MicrosoftAI Umm, who in their right minds used Haiku for coding? Even MiniMax 2.5 a better choice

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@narayananh Don't

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@shobhitic He's from IT services background. 7.2 for 4 years is a big deal there & paying 16 for 4 years exp is almost unheard of. He's also out of touch with the market realities having worked in that services echo chamber for a couple of decades.

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@MilesMogul HDFC, Bonvoy, and Air India for me.

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@mediocremumble @sumanthraman Not everyone is from a product based company. In fact a lot of them pay low starting salaries lately

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@PranavDate @narayananh Doesn't Singapore anyways have e gates that work with regular passports? Our regular passports worked fine with their e gates when I traveled in Dec 2025 & Apr 2026.

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@vig39 @claudeai It's actually better than before though that's surprising. The analysis uses Haiku 4.5, which is verified by Sonnet 4.6 & then was being validated by Opus 4.7 and now Opus 4.8. I think the validation step uses a better model now.

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

Just ran a fairly heavy @claudeai Cowork task that analyzes ~300 support conversations + 50-100 Linear tickets via Intercom and Linear MCPs, builds an HTML report, & emails it.

Previously it used to take ~50% of my 5h usage & >10% of weekly usage (5x max). It's 12% & 5% now.

It looks like Claude's limit-related issues are healing.

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@vig39 @claudeai It's for work, so I don't have any alternates to reference/compare against. Claude & Gemini models are the ones I have access to 😅

I'll try running it through Gemini some time in the coming days to compare.

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@adipatil @Rinaldorex Don't feel bad. My toddler has the same question every week, and both of us make it about the money too.

We keep repeating that we work so we can afford to pay for our food, his education, his toys, the beach vacations, etc.

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

No lol it's because the off market BT remotes lacked some basic functionality like brightness & contrast adjustment etc at least for my Thomson TV. I ended up having to go back to them, tell new lies that there's physical damage on remote & asked for spares. That's when they sent out without a technician visit because I lied about it being physical damage by us.

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@skh27 If my experience with my old Thomson TV was anything to go by, that's a hard no. Keep pushing them.

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@skh27 Push back. That's what I did until they agreed to just send a remote if I pay for it.

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@skh27 Not surprised. I had a very experience years ago with SPPL for a Thomson TV, another Hisense product like Toshiba. It's all outsourced manufacturing & support.

[Lakshmi Narayanan G @_glnarayanan]

@TheBigGeek @skh27 @sbhansali @airtelindia "up to 200 Mbps", not "minimum 200 Mbps". It's unlimited, 3 TB at 200 Mbps & then rest at 1 Mbps