S Anand

Open weights models are nudging up the frontier.

This week, I learned: trafilatura is a Python library that extracts the main content as Markdown from a web page.

The Remote Desktop Commander ChatGPT Plugin might be one of the most useful power-user plugins for ChatGPT.

GPT Image 2.5 Flare is a pretty good image model.

My article Redesigning the Operating Model: Shifting from AI Tool Rollouts to Workflow Integration appeared on CXOToday two days ago.

I conducted a session on Thu, 24 Sep 2026 at International IT-BPM Summit (IIS) 2026 - Function Rooms #1 & #2, 3rd Floor Pearl Wing, Okada Manila, Parañaque City, Philippines.

Our recruitment team asked me to review hiring questions for analysts and data scientists.

On Air India AI 2531 from Mumbai to Hyderabad, I saw something ingenious: the seat had a phone holder built in.

My daughter and I planned a trip to Timbuktu.

This week, I learned: cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:8000 now lets you create a quick tunnel - i.e. expose a port via a public URL, like ngrok.

I conducted a session on Sat, 19 Sep 2026 at Shree Niketan Schools — Teachers’ AI Q&A - Shree Niketan Schools, Chennai / Zoom.

I heard a lot about Jev - a new kind of model from TypeSafe.

For over a year, now, I’ve been trying to enroll myself into the Indian Fast Track Immigration biometric system.

It was interesting to see how weak a model Claude 4.5 Haiku is, compared with other frontier models, even inside a good harness like Claude Code.

Priya Dialani interviewed me for a podcast.

This week, I learned: Everything I own, owned suggests that agentic reverse-engineering of firmware helps us learn: Features the devices expose Hidden functionalities, e.g.

I conducted a session on Fri, 11 Sep 2026 at SUTD DAI Signature Master Class · Expert Industry Series - Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.

Nano Banana (gemini-2.5-flash-image) did a pretty good job converting my parents’ wedding photos to color.

This week, I learned: Swiggy Money on MCP (also a ChatGPT plugin) exposes MCP endpoints that let your agents order food or grocery via Swiggy.

I delivered a 15-minute keynote at Jio Institute’s Convergence 2026 at NTU on Thursday.

At work, we have to change passwords every 2 months.

Last week, I saw that local agents are good but slow.

This week, I learned: I know that fact-checking 2000 page PDFs is error-prone, so’d do it manually for a few pages, then refine.

I save prompts and prompt fragments I regularly use with ChatGPT, Claude, etc.

This week, I learned: DuckDB 2.0 adds a CONNECT command that can connect to databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. making DuckDB the only DB client I need.

I conducted a session on Sat, 22 Aug 2026 at IIM Alumni Singapore — AI Unboxed (4/4) - Singapore / Teams.

Some ideas on what we can do less, thanks to AI.

Last year, I shared how local LLMs are expensive.

Over the last few weeks, I asked 166 people: What’s something you did not ask AI last week, because it can’t do it?

There are some small pleasures in life, not worth mentioning by themselves, but sometimes they come together so well.

Two months ago, I was impressed at the ingenuity of a lady who used a plastic cover to watch videos on a flight.

In 2025, I made a number of predictions on this blog.

This week, I learned: psub is a neat fish option to treat command outputs like file inputs.

Sugar (or condensed milk) in tea I get often stays unmixed at the bottom.

I ran, an experiment in Straive.

One of my goals this year is to learn to dance.

When I was at school, I assumed that teachers in the staff room would mostly be discussing students, teaching, how to improve things, etc.

Many people commented that they liked my comic illustrations and asked how I create them.