Mandar’s Blog

For years I had a ritual every time I wanted to browse on my phone through my home server: open ConnectBot, connect to my SSH server, confirm the SOCKS proxy was up, switch to SocksDroid, activate the proxy, switch to Chrome, browse.

For the last ten years, the most reliable piece of advice I gave my mentees was a cliché: ideas are cheap, execution is everything.

I was tired of paying for servers I barely use.

This is my GitHub contribution history.

There is a certain magic to modern AI-assisted development, a practice that has been affectionately dubbed “vibe coding.”

February 20, 2026 · 47 min read ai agents manus productivity agentic-ai token-law moores-law The Machines Are Talking to Themselves OpenRouter data shows that AI agents now consume more tokens than humans.

In software engineering, there’s a powerful design principle known as Inversion of Control.

For the past year, the world has been captivated by the power of large language models (LLMs).

Who needs charts on the command line?

Cloud9 is a cloud based IDE that works completely within the browser.