CTO in Bangalore. Build in public. Break in public. Generalist who still ships the ugly version first. nagajyothiprakash.com

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CTO. Solo builder from Bangalore. I ship public experiments, break things in public, and figure out distribution the hard way. Follow if you want the messy middle - not the highlight reel.
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Finally updated my portfolio nagajyothiprakash.com
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Big companies pay analysts to dig through their numbers. Small businesses have the same data. No analyst. No time. So the best insights stay buried: the customer slowly leaving, the product that quietly stopped selling. We're building the analyst they can't afford.
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Saturday plan was one fix. I opened the repo and started a second one.
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Claude Code makes you wait. So I made the wait teach me something. meanwhile is a Claude mod. A small card above your prompt asks one question from today's Hacker News. Think while Claude works, then the answer shows up. Or click it. Get through the day's questions and /wrapped turns your day into a card worth posting. Want it? Comment "meanwhile" and I'll send it.
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Read Andrej Karpathy's list. Already doing most of it. Stealing the ASD-STE100 one though. Super easy, and it actually works.
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks: Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better: Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better: Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better: Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work! In summary: - As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding. - Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
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I was too sleepy to film, so my sassy screen companion Mini took over. Why did every AI company suddenly get cute? 👇 Reply SCRIPT and I'll send you the prompt that made this.
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Made with Opus 5.5 + HyperFrames
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the one-shot is the easy part hard part is catching when it’s confidently wrong mid-loop and still sounds sure
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ChatGPT now suggests apps mid-conversation. So I tested mine. 10 prompts. Fresh chat each time. Dashlytics installed, never selected, never named. ChatGPT reached for it in 3 of them. ChatGPT shows builders none of this. Round 2 next: one merged tool, rewritten description. I'll post the comparison. Building a ChatGPT app? Want the same numbers for yours? Reply.
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First principles isn’t a vibe. It’s the move when the playbook is wrong. When mine is wrong, I do this: Write the constraint in one sentence (time, users, money) Cut every step that doesn’t change that sentence Ship the smaller thing before I “fix” the plan Builders: last time the playbook failed, did you rewrite the plan, or rewrite the problem?
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First principles isn’t a vibe.
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Four different bets on what AI should become: Muse: help me Cue: do this Grok Bots: own this role Dots: achieve this goal Assistant → Executor → Teammate → Team. Feels like we’re watching a new software abstraction emerge in real time.
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Exhausted. Unseen. Behind. Doubting yourself. Do it anyway.
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grok bot vs muse vs cue agents what’s your take?
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Every startup roadmap, visualised:
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Your startup doesn't have a marketing problem. It has a "nobody knows what you do in one sentence" problem. Fix the sentence. The marketing was never the issue.
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Understanding is the new bottleneck. So we opened Scrollback to 10 people for AI basics. I expected zero. We got ten.
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5 days, 20 min a day, starts Monday. Week 1: how AI actually works. Tokens, training, RLHF, agents. Self-paced, one group, daily check-ins. Then we rotate: marketing, quantum, context engineering. Free. 8 seats. Reply "in".
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