https://prashamhtrivedi.in/Recent content on Prasham H TrivediHugo -- gohugo.ioenWed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/mobile-lost-on-distribution/Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/mobile-lost-on-distribution/The narrative says mobile won the platform war and the web lost. For most of the 2010s that was simply correct. The lens that emerged later is the load-bearing one: mobile won on distribution and store lock-in, not on capability, and the deciding axis the whole time was update friction. A platform-war retrospective from someone who shipped Android apps for a decade.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/plan-execute-verify-workflow/Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/plan-execute-verify-workflow/I promised to show you how Plan-Execute-Verify actually works. Here’s the three-command workflow that replaced my 13-document nightmare-and why complexity scoring is the gate that keeps everything sane.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/how-not-to-arrange-ai-workflow/Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/how-not-to-arrange-ai-workflow/I spent $10 and generated 13 documents to change a label. Here’s the brilliant workflow that got me there-and why you should absolutely not replicate it.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/code-red-dna-model-comparison/Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/code-red-dna-model-comparison/I ran a blind A/B test between Gemini 3 Pro and GPT 5.2 on my slash command converter. Same prompt, same input. One gave me 60 lines I could use. The other gave me 250 lines I had to rewrite. The difference wasn’t the prompt-it was the training.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/agent-config-technical-debt/Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/agent-config-technical-debt/We’ve evolved from slash commands to MCP servers to skills, but our configs haven’t. That prompt from the Claude 3.7 era? It’s still running. That’s not legacy-it’s debt.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/ai-agent-comparison-claude-gemini-codex/Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/ai-agent-comparison-claude-gemini-codex/I tested three AI coding agents on writing analysis-Claude, Gemini, and Codex. After fixing a configuration bug, the results changed dramatically. Here’s what happened.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/case-studies/shopify-woocommerce-ai-automation-case-study/Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/case-studies/shopify-woocommerce-ai-automation-case-study/How I have delivered sophisticated AI automation solutions for Shopify and WooCommerce using advanced Cloudflare architecture and strategic AI safety controls. Executive Summary This case study details how I engineered a sophisticated AI automation engine, transforming e-commerce management for Shopify and WooCommerce into a seamless conversational experience. The project involved delivering two distinct, high-performance automation servers on Cloudflare’s global network. A key achievement was designing and implementing a robust AI Safety Architecture, giving merchants granular control over automated actions like refunds.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/post/rebuilding_invoice_system/Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/post/rebuilding_invoice_system/Leveraged LLMs to rebuild our invoice system in 48 hours. Explores AI-driven development, prompt engineering, and lessons learned from this rapid migration.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/interruptible_programmer/Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:30:52 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/interruptible_programmer/This is a good read from Steves String. I discovered this blog from a youtube channel called Internet of Bugs. The post completely changes the way we think about productivity and work, especially when your are at the other end of your 30s. The post discusses about how it’s not feasible to work for long hours without any interruption. It’s not just about the physical health, but also about the mental health.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/post/jest_esm/Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/post/jest_esm/Jest, ESM, and the Meta Tech Conundrum: A Cautionary Tale You know that moment when you’re deep in your TypeScript project, everything’s going smooth, and then you import a simple CSV parsing library? Yeah, that’s when Jest decides to remind you about Facebook’s - sorry, Meta’s - opinions on JavaScript modules. Here’s what happened in my project today: A simple import from csv-parse/lib/sync led me down a rabbit hole of Jest configuration hell.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/post/code_assistants_blurring_line/Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/post/code_assistants_blurring_line/For long, AI Coding tools have naturally split into specialized roles to solve different developer needs, Inline assistants for real-time suggestions and Multi-file editors for broader changes. Today, these approaches are converging, making our development workflows more efficient than ever. I see two distinct categories of AI code assistants in our development landscape. The inline assistance category, championed by GitHub Copilot and Codeium, excels at real-time completions and suggestions. These assistants are like pair programmers who peek over your shoulder, helping you craft code line by line.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/github-copilot-rag-app/Thu, 21 Nov 2024 01:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/github-copilot-rag-app/Recreating Tim Kitchen’s RAG application using GitHub Copilot and exploring how it compares to other AI coding assistants like Aider, Cursor, and Windsurf.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/software_is_bananas/Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/software_is_bananas/Kent Beck has shared some good insights in his substack. If I have to start with something, this is probably it. This post takes a short and stingy look around real “aglileness” of software development. Short but quick deployments and closer feedback loops instead of long and drawn out processes. Because at the end of the day, there is one bug lingering only in production enviorment which is waiting to be revealed.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/boringtech/Mon, 18 Nov 2024 07:23:01 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/boringtech/Let’s say every company gets about three innovation tokens. You can spend these however you want, but the supply is fixed for a long while. You might get a few more after you achieve a certain level of stability and maturity, but the general tendency is to overestimate the contents of your wallet. Clearly this model is approximate, but I think it helps. You can replenish the tokens if you can to hire more people who brings new innovation tokens with them.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/invoicer/Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/invoicer/Revolutionized invoice management with a serverless system using AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, and Anthropic API. Reduced a hours-long task to 5 minutes.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/what_goes_around/Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/what_goes_around/This is an interesting paper I read last month. The notes on this paper gave me an idea of having linkblogs… Original Paper link Some quotes Under 4: Parting comments ORMs are a vital tool for rapid prototyping. But they often sacrifice the ability to push logic into the DBMS in exchange for interoperability with multiple DBMSs. Developers fall back to writing explicit database queries to override the poor auto-generated queries.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/ai_agentic_workflow_andrew_ng/Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:13:22 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/ai_agentic_workflow_andrew_ng/Youtube Video, via JS Party podcast episode Building LLM agents in JS Notes Non Agentic workflow: Do it start to finish. Mostly zero shot prompts. Agentic workflow: Revise, iterative, reflect, use tools if you need to…. Four design patterns. 1. Reflect: Produce one thing and ask another chat thread with different system prompt to evaluate it. E.g. Create a code, than ask a rubberduck debugger to read it line by line, or run the test suite and provide the result to LLM generated the code to evaluate it.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/updates_0924/Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:22:37 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/updates_0924/After more than a year, the blog is getting an update. This is a short summary of what is getting changedhttps://prashamhtrivedi.in/ai_impact_jobs/Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:36:13 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/ai_impact_jobs/(via) It’s not their fault. They enrolled in a master’s program to get a job in tech. Why? Let’s be candid: tech has promised job security and agreeable (sometimes borderline perverse) financial returns for a couple of decades. Many tech employers also spin a yarn about “saving the world” and coast on the reputational allure of “if you work here, you’re a genius.” Sounds great, doesn’t it? Except, now that students have invested five figures of money in their tech education1, had their skulls crammed full of ‘invisible hand of the market’ propaganda, and counted on having secured their ticket to the party, they’re seeing layoffs.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/llm_dev_lessons/Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:25:24 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/llm_dev_lessons/A developer’s journey through LLM-powered development tools. Shares favorite tools, reasons for skipping others, and 8 battle-tested tips for LLM coding.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/share-specs-not-execution/Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:22:02 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/share-specs-not-execution/Discusses the importance of sharing API specifications (Swagger/OpenAPI) over execution details (Postman collections) for better collaboration and avoiding issues.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/introducing_sourcesailor.htmlTue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/introducing_sourcesailor.htmlSourceSailor is a CLI that helps anyone understand a codebase with the help of LLMs. This post introduces the tool, the features and tells the story how it came to be.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/adventures_local_llm/Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/adventures_local_llm/After toying with GPT based models. I have also explored how we can use these models locally, without internet, having full control. This post describes my process and learnings about my explorations…https://prashamhtrivedi.in/post/my_llm_usage/Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/post/my_llm_usage/Generative AI, LLMs and OpenAI have swept accross many aspects of our lifestyle since they are released to General Public. People are taking it across the spectrum. Some of them love it, some of them don’t like it and some of them are waiting for the dust to settle. I am one of those who love it and using it in many aspect of my life. In this post, I will tell you how I am using it and what are some tools under my belt.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/post/interview_chatgpt/Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/post/interview_chatgpt/The age of AI and LLMs are upon us already. And it’s changing many aspects of life. Making most of the things easy, while making some things obsolate. But one thing is sure, things are not going to be same moving forward. In the age of AI and large language models like ChatGPT, the way we conduct interviews is changing. Traditional theoretical knowledge-based questions may not be as effective in assessing a candidate’s true potential (I always believe it serves a limited purpose).https://prashamhtrivedi.in/avoid_orms/Fri, 30 Jun 2023 16:07:23 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/avoid_orms/Many teams start with ORM/ODM for various reason. But ORM/ODM don’t scale because of a reason. And to perserve sanity, all ORM/ODM must be avoided unless it’s provided by the team who built the databasehttps://prashamhtrivedi.in/gitconfig-provider.htmlSat, 02 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/gitconfig-provider.htmlIntroducing First CLI I made using Golang.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/post/things-i-learned-in-my-career/Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/post/things-i-learned-in-my-career/At the time of writing this, my career is more than 13 years old. Starting programming professionally in 2009, and doing some bits and pieces of learning back when I was studying, I have been playing with computers around the start of this century. In all these years, I have worked with 4-5 different tech stacks and worked in corporations with 400+ employees, software shops and startups as well. And with all these I gained a valuable experience.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/db_to_cognito/Sun, 04 Jul 2021 08:00:35 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/db_to_cognito/AWS Cognito is very powerful system of managing users, connecting AWS Cognito with our own database is easy and very important task. This post describes how we leverage best of both Cognito and Our database to our advantagehttps://prashamhtrivedi.in/from-mobile-to-backend.htmlFri, 14 May 2021 14:04:20 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/from-mobile-to-backend.htmlBeing a Senior Android Developer, I have got a chance to develop for a backend, this post chronicles the journeyhttps://prashamhtrivedi.in/creating_notes_site.htmlSat, 26 Sep 2020 11:47:53 +0530https://prashamhtrivedi.in/creating_notes_site.htmlIn this article, we will see how I built my notes site using a simple node script and deployed using Github actions.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/connecting_r53_external_domains.htmlSun, 20 Sep 2020 12:17:31 +0530https://prashamhtrivedi.in/connecting_r53_external_domains.htmlIn this article, we will see how we can use AWS’ Route 53 to connect with external domains and serve static S3 website.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/passing_aws_saa.htmlSat, 05 Sep 2020 17:55:20 +0530https://prashamhtrivedi.in/passing_aws_saa.htmlThis is the post about AWS Solution Architect Exam and tips to pass the exam.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/coroutines.htmlWed, 28 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/coroutines.htmlCoroutine is most powerful and natural way to process multithreading code. This post is excercept of the talk given to my team.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/bitbucket_private_mvn_repo.htmlFri, 12 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/bitbucket_private_mvn_repo.htmlSharing code from Private libraries is a difficult task. In this post we will see how we can use BitBucket as Private Maven Repository.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/yac_firebase_remoteconfig.htmlSat, 08 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/yac_firebase_remoteconfig.htmlFirebase is the base behind YAC’s many functionalities, remote config is one of them. In this post I have described how remote config solves some of the problems I have.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/yac_kotlin_wrapup.htmlTue, 04 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/yac_kotlin_wrapup.htmlBefore starting to next series on firebase. I would like to wrapup things on kotlin and announce couple of new things.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/yac_kotlin_example.htmlWed, 26 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/yac_kotlin_example.htmlIn this post I will share some examples of how Kotlin helped me to overcome problems I have faced in Javahttps://prashamhtrivedi.in/yac_why_kotlin.htmlTue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/yac_why_kotlin.htmlIn second part of the series I talk about why I decided to choose Lollipop as Min SDK and why I developed the app in kotlinhttps://prashamhtrivedi.in/yac_why_app.htmlThu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/yac_why_app.htmlIn this series, I will be talking about some desicions I have taken during the development of my new app YAC. This first part is about why I decided to develop the app.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/yac-roadmap.htmlTue, 18 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/yac-roadmap.htmlThanks to your support and interest, YAC is constantly evolving. I have laid plans in this post about what I am going to do around which milestones.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/databinding.htmlWed, 03 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/databinding.htmlDatabinding is a powerful tool. It not only reduces boilerplate coding but it also helps us to deliver testable code very fast. I gave a talk to my team regarding to databinding tool. Here is the slideshow and talk excerpt.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/adventures-databinding-4.htmlMon, 10 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/adventures-databinding-4.htmlAfter trying and playing some new stuffs(except M preview) released in Google I/O, I have found some trivial things to take care of. In concluding part of series we will see what are some issues with Google’s Databinding plugin and how we can get around ithttps://prashamhtrivedi.in/adventures-GCM-3.htmlTue, 07 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/adventures-GCM-3.htmlAfter trying and playing some new stuffs(except M preview) released in Google I/O, I have found some trivial things to take care of. In this part, we will see how GCM 3.0 gives advantage to server team to send notifications and how implementing it affects Android Development.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/adventures-iOS-2.htmlMon, 22 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/adventures-iOS-2.htmlAfter trying and playing some new stuffs(except M preview) released in Google I/O, I have found some trivial things to take care of. In this part, we will see how should we take care if we add iOS details in our google cloud console and how it can affect android development.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/adventures-snackbars-1.htmlThu, 04 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/adventures-snackbars-1.htmlAfter trying and playing some new stuffs(except M preview) released in Google I/O, I have found some trivial things to take care of. In the first part of the series I will talk about Snackbars.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/textutils.htmlSat, 09 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/textutils.htmlAndroid SDK has an awesome class called TextUtils. It has many great methods that I use daily, and some magical methods as well.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/contributing_opensource_projects.htmlSun, 03 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/contributing_opensource_projects.htmlWith open source nature of android and it’s vast open source ecosystem, we often (want to) contribute to an open source library. Here I have tried to cover some points to be kept in mind for library developers and contributers.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/improving-dbinspector.htmlSat, 14 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/improving-dbinspector.htmlDbInspector is a useful library that helps us to view our database in the app. I have forked it and tried to add some small features to make this awesome library more awesome, and even more useful.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/supercharge-android-application-4.htmlThu, 05 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/supercharge-android-application-4.htmlIn the final part of the series, we will focus on how to handle your heavy operations like network calls in threads. This part is useful for those who does not rely on any libraries for that.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/supercharge-android-application-3.htmlSat, 03 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/supercharge-android-application-3.htmlIn the third part of the series, we will focus on how to download, save and preserve your data.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/supercharge-android-application-2.htmlTue, 25 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/supercharge-android-application-2.htmlIn the second part of the series, we will focus on how to optimise the views to make applications smoother.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/supercharge-android-application-1.htmlMon, 17 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/supercharge-android-application-1.htmlIn the inaugural part of the series, I have covered ListFragments and it’s single advantage while having full control over the fragment and it’s layout. It will reduce the pain of managing or showing the progress, because ListFragment does it automatically for youhttps://prashamhtrivedi.in/wishnu_beta.htmlFri, 03 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/wishnu_beta.htmlIf you are interested in joining beta program for Wish ‘N U this post will help you to join the program.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/wishnu_analytics_explanation.htmlWed, 03 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/wishnu_analytics_explanation.htmlI use Google Analytics to collect some usage information in Wish ‘N U.This post is to explain what do I collect and why.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/integrating_google_analytics.htmlFri, 22 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/integrating_google_analytics.htmlI have created a class that can work as a wrapper for google analytics operations. To initialize, it only needs a context variable. To send events I wrote sendException,sendEvent and sendTime methods, asks analyticsTracker to call respective methods and accept same arguments which can be passed directly to related tracker methods.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/about/About Prasham H Trivedi - Senior Software Engineer specializing in serverless architecture, AI/LLM integration, and developer tooling.https://prashamhtrivedi.in/drafts/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/drafts/https://prashamhtrivedi.in/projects/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/projects/My Projectshttps://prashamhtrivedi.in/tools/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://prashamhtrivedi.in/tools/Tools: A little scripts I have created for my usecases