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Pranshu Khanna

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something and someone all at once 👾 📍 Berlin, Germany ꩜ Community ꕥ opinions my own ✨

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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 01/09/2026
love open source programs that show up where maintainers are
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 27/08/2026
are we back chat? someone just launched twitter.now after X dropped the brand. claim is basically: → Twitter is reclaimed → not X → early access → "freedom of speech, not reach" → trust signals no idea if this is real or just an internet moment.
A blue webpage announces Twitter's return, emphasizing user ownership, trust, and a call for early access membership.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 25/08/2026
i made a directory of 96 developer ambassador/champion/campus programs. ♥️ ai, devtools, cloud, OSS, data, frontend, student programs, all in one place. check it out if you write tutorials, build demos, run meetups, contribute, or help devs learn tools. pran.sh/blog/awesom...
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Awesome Developer Ambassador Programs
A curated list of developer ambassador, champion, expert, campus, and community programs for builders who write, speak, teach, organize, and create in public.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 25/08/2026
i kept losing track of which companies run developer ambassador programs, so I started a list. 📜 it's grown into 90+ programs - Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, GitHub, HashiCorp, and more. open source and community-maintained, issues/PRs welcome. ♥️ github.com/pransh15/De...
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GitHub - pransh15/DeveloperAmbassadorPrograms: A list of Developer Ambassador Programs
A list of Developer Ambassador Programs. Contribute to pransh15/DeveloperAmbassadorPrograms development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 24/08/2026
i wrote a little something about adoption stonks for models 📈 also, why highest ai benchmarks are great for investors and headlines but devs don't care. companies are spending on ai, but most of it comes from the cheaper models. give it a read ↓ pran.sh/blog/reliab...
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Highest AI benchmarks ≠ adoption stonks
Anthropic's most expensive model is stalling at 11% of spend while cheaper models handle the daily workload. The FT piece, and the Hacker News thread under it, say a lot about what developers actually adopt versus what they admire.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 18/08/2026
I've got a follow up from yesterday! 💡 I wrote about what sets the bar, and realized that if I have shared the problem, I also have to write about how can these projects show receipts. TL;DR | Nobody trust agents because of launch hype. New post → pran.sh/blog/trust-...
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Coding agents need receipts, not fans
Teams will not trust coding agents because of launch hype. They will trust them when they can see what the agent handles well, where it fails, and how other engineers use it.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 17/08/2026
Yeah, that’s the better framing. Stable per-call pricing is one layer, what we will eventually talk about is cost per successful task. Retries, long contexts, tool calls, failed generations, fallback models, eval overhead, all of that becomes part of the real price.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 17/08/2026
definitely agree!
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 17/08/2026
because the default competitor is not just another startup -- it’s, “I’ll just ask Claude in my editor.” wrote some thoughts on what I think actually matters for coding agents now: trust, distribution, workflow, narrow wedges, and taste. pran.sh/blog/hn-agents
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The Next Coding Agent Moat Is Trust
Every week there’s another coding agent on Launch HN. The question now isn’t whether they can write code, but whether teams will trust them.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 17/08/2026
a lot of them are genuinely impressive. But I don’t think the interesting question is “which one writes code fastest?” that part is getting cheap. the more interesting question is: which ones can earn enough trust that teams actually let them touch real work?
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 17/08/2026
i’ve been noticing a pattern on Launch HN lately: it’s slowly turning into a coding agent directory. every week there’s another agent that opens PRs, fixes issues, plugs into Linear, runs in the background, or “ships like an engineer.”
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 14/08/2026
3/ Another YC coding agent(bullet) is positioning on speed, not “AI magic.” That’s the devtools market now - faster loops, fewer handoffs, clearer workflow ROI. If your agent pitch can’t explain the workflow win in one sentence, devs will bounce.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 14/08/2026
2/ AI API pricing is becoming product UX, builders care about cost predictability as much as model quality now. DeepSeek price hike + Gemini moving devs to prepaid both point the same way.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 14/08/2026
Conversations from this week 👂 1/ Small-team pain in conversations -- AI speeds up frontend shipping, but creates more tiny UI bugs and designer/dev handoff friction. We're being sold, “AI builds it,” but the opp still lies in tools that keep taste, QA and iteration synced.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 11/08/2026
4th response saying the same. great time to be a community profesh in US, for sure. does anyone else see it too?
A rejection email for a Community Manager position, emphasizing location preference and expressing appreciation for the applicant's experience.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 31/07/2026
people are same everywhere 🫶
Passengers in an airplane aisle gather while boarding, showcasing a variety of styles and interactions.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 31/07/2026
issa @figma socks day 🧦
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 30/07/2026
watching odyssey while cooking, as nolan intended
Sliced red onions on a cutting board with a film scene displaying ancient warriors playing on a tablet nearby.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 30/07/2026
dev meetups in 2026: hundreds watching a person asking claude to code
A speaker presents coding concepts to an audience at a tech meetup, with a large screen displaying code in a modern venue.A speaker presents coding concepts to an audience, with code displayed on a large screen during a developer meetup.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 20/07/2026
delighted to announce that my monthly ai usage limit on zoom has been reset after using it zero times last month 🎉
Zoom notification states the monthly AI usage limit has been reset, encouraging upgrades for additional features.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 14/07/2026
have fun in berlin sir 🥳
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 14/07/2026
anyone using hermes as their daily driver with local models or claude out there? would love to know more about your setups
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 13/07/2026
not me vibe-coding a grid only to add the snake game for nostalgia purposes on my website high score: 23 pran.sh/
A personal website featuring Pranshu Khanna, showcasing freelance work, including notable companies and a consulting link.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 12/07/2026
The most valuable insights usually happen somewhere in the middle. Certainly not around an F1 car, it was cool though.
A Formula 1 car in focus, with a modern design and sponsorship logos, while people observe from the background in an exhibition space.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 12/07/2026
One audience is thinking about strategy, investment, and transformation. The other is thinking about workflows, APIs, performance, and user experience. Attending both was a good reminder that the tech ecosystem is much bigger than the developer bubble most of us live in.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 12/07/2026
You'd walk from a cloud provider booth to a startup founder pitching the future of an entire sector. At WeAreDevs, it was all about building. Editors, frameworks, open-source, developer tools, engineering culture, and the practical realities of shipping software everyday.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 12/07/2026
two conferences, two weeks apart. very different audiences. At GITEX Europe, the conversations were about AI infrastructure, enterprise adoption, digital transformation, government initiatives, and where the industry is heading over the next decade.
Messe Berlin hosts GITEX Europe, featuring attendees lining up outside the venue, highlighting tech and digital investment themes.The exterior of Messe Berlin features colorful banners for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress, with a vendor area in front.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 10/07/2026
this is fun
A presenter speaks at a developer conference, with an audience engaged and a large screen displaying the event's branding behind him.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 10/07/2026
new day, new adventure moderating stage 1 at WeAreDevs
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 27/04/2026
Happening tomorrow at Mozilla Berlin! 🚨 🎤 Talk on Firefox Mobile and open source contributions 🗺️ Firefox Roadmap & upcoming features 🤝 Networking 🎟️ Raffle 🗓️ Apr 28 // 18:00 // Schlesisches Tor RSVP now! 👇 www.meetup.com/berlin-mozi...
Event announcement for Tech Talks at Mozilla Berlin on April 28, 2026, featuring talks, networking opportunities, and a raffle.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 25/04/2026
MDN's old frontend had: ejected Create React App, a Webpack config nobody wanted to touch, CSS so entangled fixing one component broke others, and dangerouslySetInnerHTML as a core pattern. So the team rebuilt it from scratch. Deep dive worth reading 👀 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...
Four-step process for content delivery: Markdown creation, build tool conversion, frontend server-side rendering, and cloud delivery.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 24/04/2026
Something exciting is happening in Berlin on Tuesday 👀 We're hosting a community meetup at the Mozilla Office - talks, Q&A, networking, and a raffle with the Firefox iOS Team. 💟 🗓️ April 28 // 18:00-21:00 RSVP 👇 www.meetup.com/berlin-mozi...
Berlin event on April 28 features tech talks, networking, and a raffle at Mozilla Office from 18:00 to 21:00.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 09/04/2026
Thanks Andrew! 🙌
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 08/04/2026
Read it here 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 08/04/2026
Leo McArdle wrote a fantastic walkthrough of the whole architecture. If you're curious about web components in production, modern build pipelines, or just want to see how a site serving 20M+ visitors rebuilt its frontend, this is worth your time.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 08/04/2026
But here's what I love most: we used the web platform to build the site that documents it. Custom elements, Shadow DOM, progressive enhancement. The stuff we write about every day on MDN, we're now building with.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 08/04/2026
The result? Dev server starts in 2 seconds. Each page only loads the CSS and JS it actually needs. Web components lazy-load in parallel. And our content authors can now write interactive examples directly in Markdown.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 08/04/2026
Here's what we reached for 👇 → Lit and web components for all interactivity → Custom server components for static templating → Rspack instead of Webpack → Declarative Shadow DOM for instant rendering → Baseline to decide which web APIs we can ship with confidence
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 08/04/2026
Here's the short version: our old frontend was a React SPA that had accumulated years of tech debt. Webpack configs that nobody wanted to touch. CSS that was too entangled to scope properly. A dev server that took 2 minutes to start. So we rewrote it. From scratch.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 08/04/2026
We just published a deep dive into how we rebuilt @MozDevNet's entire frontend. And I'm so proud of what the team shipped. ♥️ developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 12/03/2026
Stumbled on git-pulse's snapshot rankings and had to look up mdn/content. ✨ 4th in new committers per month (49) ✨ 5th in new committer percentage (48%) ✨ 5,009 total contributors For a documentation repo, that's wild. And we are actively growing. git-pulse.github.io/snapshots/
GitPulse rankings show mdn/content ranked 4th in new committers per month and 5th in new committer percentage among various projects.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 11/03/2026
Sometimes they just... work together. 🤷‍♂️ I've been reading a lot more lately. And when something stays with me, I want to pass it along - for the community, for friends. Hope this one's useful for you too. cra.mr/mcp-skills-...
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MCP, Skills, and Agents
If you're not caught up on the current hypewave, coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor have latched onto skills recently. Like with all of these waves, everyone has immediately proclaimed they solve all problems, and all previous iterations of technology are no longer relevant. That's obviously not true, and I want to talk about my thinking behind them.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 11/03/2026
A simple way to put it is, "If skills teach you to cook, MCP provides the instruments that let you do it." What I appreciate most is the pushback on the instinct to declare one approach the winner. Every new thing doesn't have to kill the last thing.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 11/03/2026
→ Skills are reusable prompt bundles. Lightweight, loaded on demand. They teach the agent how to do something. → MCP exposes tools - the instruments that let you actually do it. → Sub-agents are isolated workers with their own context. Think map/reduce for AI workflows.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 11/03/2026
David Cramer wrote something that clarified a lot of the noise for me around MCP, skills, and agents. The key insight: these aren't competing ideas. They each solve different problems.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 10/03/2026
Sadly it's Substack, but here is the link: addyo.substack.com/p/critical-...
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 10/03/2026
As AI does more of the work, what matters most: Asking better questions. Not just what it returned. But whether you asked the right thing. That skill gets rusty if you stop practicing it. - Addy Osmani on critical thinking in the AI age
A colorful chart lists essential critical thinking questions under categories: Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How, emphasizing inquiry and insight.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 04/03/2026
The ecosystem is moving fast. The tooling is getting good. The adoption is real. The security conversation is mostly quiet. That gap is going to matter. And I'd rather we start talking about it before it becomes a problem. What are you seeing?
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 04/03/2026
But here's the thing that stayed with me the whole evening - everyone in that room is building MCPs. Almost no one is talking about what happens when those MCPs go wrong. Security. Authorization. Blast radius. Audit trails.
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Pranshu Khanna @pran.sh · 04/03/2026
The talks were genuinely good: → Viktor from Superhuman on shifting complexity from probabilistic models into deterministic MCP interfaces → Christophe from Slite on progressive tool calling and disambiguation layers
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