Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 18/09/2026Wow. US model providers keep adding nanny gates, leaving the market wide open to other models. 001
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 27/08/2026I have been trying out Fitbit air for a while. And sometimes it is wildly different from Apple Watch which I am also wearing to compare Last night for example: Apple Watch: “You had a terrible night” Google Health: “quality sleep 🎉“ Now who do I believe. All I feel is meh like every day. 🥲 110
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 24/08/2026Github's postmortem for the August 17 incident has some really wild numbers. I really really doubt any company would seriously try to be a equivalent competitor in this space. The ones blustering will put in a paywall on day 1. github.blog/news-insight... 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 30/07/2026The search results are not always stale. When I asked for an event that happened today, both internal and external web searches returned the same information. But the reason it seems to happen is that Codex deliberately uses today date to use fresher data when it feels recency is important. 110
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 30/07/2026I did a side-by-side comparison of Codex using its internal web search and a web search mcp like Exa. The internal web search gives a more stale result. Not too stale - about 4 days 110
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 29/07/2026While replacing my NAS drive, I wanted to double check using AI. Frontier model GPT 5.6 Sol got confused even after an utility point out the mapping, made a bad assumption and almost made me pull out a good drive from the NAS. AGI is pretty far out. 010
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 28/06/2026People here standing in Church street, having ice cream, vibing to the dj at the pride event behind them and watching the World Cup, probably experiencing the most funmaxing I have seen. 020
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 23/06/2026Didn't realize ChatGPT was a power git+lazygit user! 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 10/06/2026ooh. #ChatGPT made me an excellent image to use for the token merchant lords of our time. 010
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 05/05/2026For people on ChatGPT Plus plans(~$20), stick to 5.4 instead of 5.5 to make your accounts run twice as long. I asked ChatGPT to do a cost benefit comparison and this is what it came up with. 110
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 01/05/2026New viral chatgpt image generation prompt going around - drawing in terrible MS Paint form. Tried out my profile photo. Yuck. x.com/chatgptapp/s... (prompt in ALT text) 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 28/04/2026Sometimes, I get so confused about who I am working with. 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 08/04/2026While technically the employer can give a justification, since it will automatically trigger an audit, all immigration lawyers advise their employers not to do it in the first place. 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 08/04/2026It seems that even the latest version of Claude Code has a bug around handling encrypted PDFs using its read tool. It gets wedged asking for the password forever. 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 31/03/2026I am pretty sure that this change in heart is not coming to India. Once people taste power over others, it is impossible to give it back. 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 25/03/2026I should frame this Claude mea culpa as an evergreen AI agent thing. 110
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 24/03/2026Someone left a stuffed teddy in the wet, freezing curb in my neighborhood, and all i could think was “Same, Winnie, same.” 010
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 10/03/2026LMAO. Apparently students of a national level exams in India found out that the QR code in their question papers, added as a security feature, actually takes them to a rick roll video on Youtube! x.com/Nher_who/sta... 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 10/03/2026Sometimes the fight against the model is exhausting in openclaw. The main model you choose is a balance of intelligence and cost. Which is a good balance most of the time, till it is not. There is no way people can use this for production without a very solid pipeline of checks and balances. 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 06/03/2026Microsoft Teams is such a dumpster fire of an app. If a desktop app had to be given such a series of start up images, you can feel that they themselves have given up. 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 06/03/2026This quote from Alysa Liu made me laugh. And then really sad about the state of things out there Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/a... 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 06/03/2026This is getting absolutely ridiculous. $1200 for 64gb? And this is going to get worse over the next year or two? 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 02/03/2026Thousands of ppl losing jobs to AI. Meanwhile: Me: "Hey pi, my macbook gets pile of local emails from broken crons. Can you delete everything except the *latest*. I would like to manually inspect that" pi: "whoops. I deleted everything except the *oldest*. In the future, do it yourself." 100
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 26/02/2026I had asked my openclaw instance to maintain a private daily blog (if I don't find the time to blog, perhaps it can :-P ). Pretty amusing and surreal to find yet another entity disappointed in me. What have I done? 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 17/02/2026Didn't realize that SSDs can lose data if not connected to power from time to time (measured in months). Just happened to see this Youtube short. Asked Perplexity to fact check & some guidelines. Now looking at my powered down desktop with SSDs with a lot of doubt. 🤨 www.youtube.com/shorts/VjZ1Y... 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 17/02/2026I probably hit a weird edge case in @bsky.app Say you subscribed to bell notifications of posts from some profile *without following them*. Bluesky rolled out a feature which restricts who can subscribe to these bell notifications. This setting defaults to "Only people who follow you". 100
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 15/02/2026Incredible responses from our would be AI overlords. See post from all the models for this one. mastodon.world/@knowmadd/11... 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 15/02/2026Was delighted to see minimal-2.5 and kimi 2.5 free on opencode zen, used it for a day and then, just now, saw this 🤦♂️ I keep forgetting that bit about “if you are not paying for it, you are the product” 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 11/02/2026One thing I like a lot about Claude Code is that it has no opinion about what you can use it for. I use it for coding, sysadmin, writing, etc. Opencode on the other hand has annoying opinions about what you should use it for - "I am a software engineer only, thanks" 020
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 11/02/2026Remarkable line about how no one wants to do the jobs immigrants have been kicked out for. “People don't know you can make more money milking cows than at McDonald's, and even if they did, they still wouldn't do it." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o... 151
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 10/02/2026If there is something more maddening about #NVME drives selling for twice as many $$$, it is seeing your $$$ nvme drive being delivered by #Amazon sandwiched between two packs of bottled water. 😡 And there is apparently no way to give packaging feedback to Amazon in #Canada. 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 08/02/2026I really find it amusing that core values that humans in all cultures find innate, are left as an optional user side system prompt, instead of baking it in the model. Why is this a revelation? 010
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 07/02/2026Yes, #toronto , you can do it! Just one more for the 30s 🥶🥶🥶🥶 #weather 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 06/02/2026lol @ AI generated images of actual people. That doesn't look like Dario at all. 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 02/02/2026I was trying to view an article in the indian express, and they seem to be using the atrocious infinite scroll webpages ... for showing infinite ads!!! wtf is wrong with these websites? indianexpress.com/article/indi... 100
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 30/01/2026Used Google Gemini 3 & Deepgram Nova 3 in Superwhisper for decent Bengali→English transliteration. Family uses Bengali voice on WhatsApp but most can't read the script, so chats use transliterated Bengali. Manual transliteration gets hairy & annoying on mobile. Maybe this can help. 010
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 31/12/2025The AI update to Alexa can make your normally boring interactions really … something. 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 17/12/2025Why is no one reading up? Both parties have to use Find Friends for this to work. This is fundamentally different from importing contacts in other services! 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 16/12/2025"For security and compatibility reasons", why would you keep using a Windows laptop or desktop computer? 010
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 04/12/2025I am not hugely impressed by the increasing hype around self driven cars. Fundamentally cities are still going to be broken (Got Gemini to whip me up what i think) 010
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 01/12/2025This is an incredible factoid ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/carney-... 000
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 06/11/2025Earlier this yr, I started evaluating a paid search engine Kagi bcoz Google turned trash. I started off using the "Starter" plan. Today I ran out of the yrly quota. Turns out I'm not a "normal" user who only does a handful of searches every day. My monthly avg is ~400! I now need to pony up more 010
Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 22/10/2025Wtf. I had asked some question back in February related to the Bengali language. Chatgpt apparently created a memory at some time that "I prefer responses in Bengali". Suddenly in the middle of a convo it switched to Bengali. 🤦 Had to go delete all the memories. There was a lot of obsolete crap 010