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Google Ships Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. OpenAI Ships GPT-5.3 Instant. The real race is for your default model. Which one would you choose?

Published a new article on the latest release of Gemini and OpenAI. Both are light-weight models, less expensive and blazing fast.

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07.03.2026 07:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CLAUDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

CLAUDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

One of the problems of using Claude Code is that it wipes out the files, to start afresh when it finds it challenging to update the file. The best thing one should do is to commit everytime. I haven't given the commit access to Claude, once the changes are done, I commit myself.

07.03.2026 07:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Explored a new breakfast place. It was so good.

📍Aariyas, Trivandrum

07.03.2026 07:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So my eyes have been hurting, and I went to see a doctor at an eye hospital. I was told to blink more when staring at the screen, which apparently I do unconsciously. They also gave me eye drops for it.

P.S. Take care of your eyes, people. 👀

04.03.2026 07:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and within 30 minutes OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.3 Instant. 🔥

03.03.2026 18:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think 2019 was the last good year of normalcy. After that, everything changed. Everything.

03.03.2026 18:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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China is Training Drone Swarms to Think like Hawks The PLA just borrowed from nature to build something genuinely terrifying.

China is Training Drone Swarms to Think like Hawks

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03.03.2026 18:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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China is Training Drone Swarms to Think like Hawks The PLA just borrowed from nature to build something genuinely terrifying.

China is Training Drone Swarms to Think like Hawks

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03.03.2026 15:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Good morning, ladies and gents!

Somehow, I feel like today will be a productive day. We have a prod release this week, but there is a strange calm around it.

Yesterday, I finished a draft I was writing. I also built a PDF tool for myself.

I hope you all have a great day.

03.03.2026 04:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Good morning, ladies and gents!

Wishing you a great day ahead!

02.03.2026 04:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Good day to you, ladies and gents!

It has been a hectic couple of days. Work has been intense. Yesterday and today were packed with meetings as well.

I hope you all are having a great day.

27.02.2026 08:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Good morning, ladies and gents!

Remember, whatever you are trying to achieve, just put in the work. Do it diligently. Do it consistently. It is difficult in the beginning. That is the point. It gets easier.

With this note, wishing you a phenomenal day ahead! 🧿

26.02.2026 05:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This way you don't need to reply to the mails. That's a brilliant hack! 👏

24.02.2026 04:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My monthly cost of living in Trivandrum 🇮🇳

🏠 $200 for a rented apartment
🍲 $100 for food (eating out & cooking)
📦 $100 for various expenses
⚡ $25 for electricity/gas
📱 $15 for phone/internet
🚕 $30 for transportation

Total: $470/month (approx. $500/month).

This excludes all the huge loans I have.

24.02.2026 04:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Google Just Broke the AI Pricing Rule (Yet Again) Gemini 3.1 Pro beats Claude and GPT on benchmarks, but the real story is the price tag.

Published a latest newsletter on Gemini 3.1 Pro. Do give a read.

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23.02.2026 20:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Oh well! This would be interesting.

22.02.2026 14:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good morning, ladies & gents!

Stacked day today. I’ll clean the apartment, do laundry & cook. I also plan to write articles. I’ll try to complete one of the coding tasks pending at work. And if I have some energy left, I’ll watch Tracker, season 3.

Wish you all a great day!

21.02.2026 05:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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At the India AI Impact Summit, the CEOs of OpenAI & Anthropic did not link hands, even as other leaders did.

Anthropic recently mocked OpenAI over ads in ChatGPT.

OpenAI then hired the founder of OpenClaw, an AI agent project that has drawn comparisons to Anthropic’s Claude Code. 🍿

19.02.2026 13:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Please remember that AI agents are non-deterministic systems. That means they don't follow a set of step-by-step instructions. They can delete all of your files because they perceive that you are well-organized and thought it would be helpful to clean up for you.

Be cautious!

17.02.2026 18:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s been a hectic day so far. It took some hours to deploy the apps and mitigate the issues that popped up right after release. A few services failed on startup because of config mismatches. But it was resolved.

I had 4 cups of tea for fuel. I hope you guys had a great day.

17.02.2026 13:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is the Turing test for video models.

17.02.2026 07:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Good morning, ladies and gents!

Guess who's having a prod deployment today! 👀

Wishing you all a great day today.

17.02.2026 05:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hollywood Is Panicking With The New AI Model That Creates Realistic “Movie-Like” Videos It’s not just about copyright anymore.

Published a new article.

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16.02.2026 05:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Home | SavvyMonk Everything about technology and AI as seen from an unfiltered human perspective. Subscribe to read articles to remain updated with the latest tech news.

Created a newsletter that would focus on sharing tech stories.

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15.02.2026 20:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Anthropic’s $100B bet against OpenAI Why "No Ads" is actually a trap for ChatGPT.

I’ve always wanted to have my own newsletter. I’ve been exploring and learning about them for a while. Finally, I’ve created one. It’s called “SavvyMonk.”

I just published my first edition.

Do subscribe, it’s free: savvymonk.beehiiv.com/p/anthropic-...

14.02.2026 20:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The marketing tactic of all AI companies be like:

“Our product will take your job and destroy the economy. Now pay us $200 per month.”

14.02.2026 07:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
High contrast pen and ink drawing in a vintage engraving style. A lone traveler in a long flowing cloak walks along a narrow dirt path toward a massive ancient palace built on top of a grassy hillside. The palace features tall spires, gothic arches, detailed stone carvings, and grand staircases, giving it an epic dark fantasy presence. A radiant sun shines directly behind the palace, with dramatic rays spreading across the sky. Towering billowing cumulus clouds fill the background, rendered with intricate cross hatching and stippling. A calm river in the mid ground reflects the palace, sun, and sky. Dark pine trees flank the riverbanks. The entire scene is black and white with deep shadows, fine line work, high detail, and a strong sense of scale and atmosphere.

High contrast pen and ink drawing in a vintage engraving style. A lone traveler in a long flowing cloak walks along a narrow dirt path toward a massive ancient palace built on top of a grassy hillside. The palace features tall spires, gothic arches, detailed stone carvings, and grand staircases, giving it an epic dark fantasy presence. A radiant sun shines directly behind the palace, with dramatic rays spreading across the sky. Towering billowing cumulus clouds fill the background, rendered with intricate cross hatching and stippling. A calm river in the mid ground reflects the palace, sun, and sky. Dark pine trees flank the riverbanks. The entire scene is black and white with deep shadows, fine line work, high detail, and a strong sense of scale and atmosphere.

Good morning, ladies and gents!

I hope you reach your goals, today being the last day of this week.

Have a great day ahead.

13.02.2026 05:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s been a good day at work. Every task was accomplished except for one bug. Tomorrow is a PROD deployment. Now, two more meetings to go.

11.02.2026 12:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Good morning, ladies & gents!

I woke up early today to complete some tasks before the day actually started. Now I have the full day to finish today’s and tomorrow’s work. This feels like a superpower.

Have a great day ahead.

10.02.2026 04:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"If you want to succeed at something, do so much volume that it would be unreasonable for you to fail." - Alex Hormozi

09.02.2026 20:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0