Vineeth

Vineeth

Building stuff @ https://gitgudapps.com
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Hi, I’m Vineeth. For over 21 years, I worked in software engineering across both development and leadership roles. Most recently, I was at Microsoft, where I designed and built large-scale cloud-native systems while collaborating with teams across the globe. It was an exciting ride, but after more than two decades in the corporate world, I felt the pull to create on my own terms. I’m now on a new path of solopreneurship (a.k.a. explorer/tinkerer) @ https://gitgudapps.com, experimenting with software products, AI tools, cloud services, with the goal of building things that are super useful and a delight to use. I also blog at vineethvr.com, regarding my startup journey, feel free to have a look :)

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1mo ago

What are the 5 tools you simply couldn't do your work without?

This could be related to your industry, or even a side project you're working on.

Here are my 5 (I couldn't function without them):

  1. Grammarly proofreading my texts, not just posts, but also client communication

  2. ChatGPT / Claude mostly brainstorming, help with copy, and summarising

  3. Figma I can put the basic graphics together quickly.

  4. Translator sounds incredibly old-school, but English is not my mother tongue

  5. Gmail and not only for communication, but also for storing ideas and sending myself email reminders for posts

Claude by Anthropicp/claude•

1mo ago

Claude Opus 4.8 just dropped — who’s tried it yet?

Claude Opus 4.8 just dropped who s tried it yet?

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 yesterday, and from the announcement it looks like a solid upgrade over 4.7. Here s what stood out to me:

  • Better judgment on agentic tasks early testers say it catches its own mistakes, pushes back on bad plans, and flags uncertainties instead of bulldozing through

  • ~4x less likely to let code flaws pass unremarked compared to Opus 4.7

  • Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code can now orchestrate hundreds of parallel subagents for codebase-scale migrations

  • Effort control you can now choose how hard the model thinks on each response (from fast/light to max effort)

  • Fast mode is 3x cheaper than it was for previous models

  • Same pricing as Opus 4.7: $5/M input, $25/M output

Claude by Anthropicp/claude•

2mo ago

Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

That's a lot of AGI, with some substantial firepower:

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $965 billion post-money.

From Coatue, who lead the round:

...what s changed since three months ago (the last round was only three months ago, believe it or not)?

Three things:

  1. We ve seen the shift from co-pilots that help make us more efficient to agents actually doing long-form work tasks on our behalf. This has meant an explosion in both productivity and ROI for customers.

  2. Anthropic introduced Mythos Preview, a whole new model class that demonstrates a step change in intelligence level as seen in the METR chart below. It not only shows dramatic improvement to coding and long-running agents, it is also defining a new frontier for security.

  3. And finally > use cases spreading from coding to everything else.

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