Chandru

Into AI tools and how people actually use them. Writing simple takes, asking dumb questions, and figuring things out as I go

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@Prathkum Maybe we don't need a new web, just better guardrails. Security is always a cat and mouse game, even without agents.

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@davenguyenswe The best tools are usually the ones with the worst landing pages and no social media presence.

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@nicotwtss If these models keep getting sharper, do you think we move away from writing logic and just spend our time playing editor?

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@GonnabeNikhil Caching prefixes sounds efficient but the security side is still hazy. I'm not sure how you'd prevent data leakage between users.

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@Im_IrushiK I'm already looking at compact setups. local weights just feel more reliable when the wifi goes out.

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@X_Sparkler Good way to learn efficiency. I try to stick to read/write only until I really need the others.

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@Ansh14225311 Facts. if you skip the debugging phase you miss the whole point of why it broke in the first place.

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@V1rendra_ Cheap code just means more junk to refactor. i'm spending more time deleting than reading these days.

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@Delwo_A Shipping fast is the trap. everyone wants the demo but nobody wants to be the guy who leaked the user db on launch night.

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@oldstackjournal Manual sanity checks are the only thing keeping my local builds from falling apart.

[Chandru @thisis_chandru]

If I had to start over today with a 30 day limit, I wouldn't touch a single textbook. I'd build one tiny, specialized tool that solves exactly one task.

My plan is simple. I open Cursor and use local agents to iterate on a small script, which means I get immediate feedback instead of getting stuck in setup loops.

I spend my weekends building these small scripts because bigger projects just slow me down when I'm starting out. I learn more from building a tiny script, breaking it, fixing it, and running it again than I do from hours of theory.

It's about the build and test loop.

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@BodyaNets 500 Is a solid milestone. growth feels slow then it just clicks, keep shipping.

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@ChatGPT Finally having context inside my chat window is gonna save me so much tab switching

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@emollick Tbh i think the fragmentation is actually helping me. keeps my messy scratchpad code away from my real work context.

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@supabase Stripe and Supabase together makes sense for billing flows. setup is way faster now.

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@SeHozaifa Coding is basically free now. the real cost is just opportunity.

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@cramforce @vercel @vercel_dev Performance reviews are just quiet luxury for corp. real dev happening in the repo, not the deck.

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If you're still tweaking model settings on the fly and hoping you remember what worked, try keeping a dedicated build-log.md file.

I now force myself to log every single model tweak in this file before I touch a line of code. If I cannot document the change, I simply do not ship it.

This strict constraint keeps me from spiraling into procrastination when things don't work, which means I actually finish what I start. classic move tbh.

No fancy tracking tools needed. Just a markdown file and some discipline.

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@SayantanDev7 How are you handling the cookie security flags for production? setting secure and httponly is vital if you're keeping it in the browser

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@supabase Doubling limits is solid but i still need better cold start performance tbh