Short opinion takes and deep technical essays on software, strategy, and the mess in between.https://abhaybagda.com/en-ushttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/meta-ai-does-not-need-permission/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/meta-ai-does-not-need-permission/Meta's new image model can generate you from your public Instagram, and you were opted in without being asked. Switching it off does not stop the photos your friends and family posted of you from being used.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick Takehttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/twenty-five-claude-code-commands/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/twenty-five-claude-code-commands/Prompting is not what separates a fast Claude Code user from a slow one. It is the slash commands they never learned were sitting right there.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/fable-is-back/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/fable-is-back/Fable 5 returned this week, three weeks after the government switched it off. The version that came back reserves the right to quietly hand your request to a weaker model.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick Takehttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/whatsapp-username-not-instagram-handle/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/whatsapp-username-not-instagram-handle/Do not reserve your WhatsApp username yet. The best privacy upgrade the app has shipped in years switches off the moment you reuse your Instagram handle.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick Takehttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/watched-claude-best-practices-video/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/watched-claude-best-practices-video/Anthropic's own engineer spent twenty-five minutes on how to use Claude Code well. I watched it twice and kept the four habits that actually changed how I work.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/apple-siri-runs-on-gemini/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/apple-siri-runs-on-gemini/Apple spent the start of this year paying users a settlement for Siri listening to them. Then it handed Siri's brain to Google, the company that turns listening into money.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick Takehttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/us-government-banned-claude/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/us-government-banned-claude/At 5:21 on a Friday evening, a government directive forced Anthropic to switch off its two most powerful models for every customer. The stated reason should bother you.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick Takehttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/claude-predicted-world-cup/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/claude-predicted-world-cup/Opus 4.8 is barely out and the World Cup is almost here, so I had the new Claude build me a model to settle who wins. It refuses to give anyone a straight answer, and that is the point.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick Takehttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/premier-league-region-locked-instagram/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/premier-league-region-locked-instagram/It is @premierleague, not @premierleague_sg. A post about Changi Airport still landed on a Singapore feed, because one account can now show a different thing to every country, and the switch was flipped while nobody was looking.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick Takehttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/claude-4-8-admits-when-wrong/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/claude-4-8-admits-when-wrong/Everyone's looking at the score charts. The part that actually matters is that the new Claude is better at admitting when its own work might be wrong.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick Takehttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/instagram-should-not-be-this-fast/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/instagram-should-not-be-this-fast/Serving an Instagram post sounds simple. Doing it for ten people, then ten million, then for MrBeast, takes three different machines stacked on top of each other.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/apple-no-answer-android-xr/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/apple-no-answer-android-xr/I spent a year not buying Meta Ray-Bans because Meta AI was the dealbreaker. Samsung and Google just shipped the alternative, and Apple does not have one.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick Takehttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/google-teaches-ai-optimise/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/google-teaches-ai-optimise/Every consultant is selling llms.txt files, AI-specific schema, and content chunking as the new SEO meta. Google's official guide says none of that does anything. Here is what you actually edit on your site this week.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/isc2-free-cybersecurity-cert/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/isc2-free-cybersecurity-cert/ISC2 is the body that runs the CISSP. They are giving away their entry-level certification, exam and training included, until May 20. The window closes in three days.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick Takehttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/claude-free-masterclass-curriculum/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/claude-free-masterclass-curriculum/Anthropic published 18 free Claude courses, written and maintained by Anthropic. The bootcamps charging four figures a seat are reselling a worse version of the same material.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick Takehttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/top-5-takeaways-anthropic-skilljar/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/top-5-takeaways-anthropic-skilljar/I used Claude almost daily for 1.5 years and was using maybe 20% of the product. The other 80% lives one layer below the chat window and the curriculum is what finally showed me where to look.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/writing-code-stopped-being-the-job/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/writing-code-stopped-being-the-job/Stack Overflow lost 76% of its questions. 75% of new code at Google is now AI-generated. The job we used to call 'writing code' is not the job anymore.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/justfile-twelve-lines/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/justfile-twelve-lines/A few lines of text per project, hours back every week. Justfile is the smallest tool in my stack and the one that pays the most.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/docker-never-hard/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/docker-never-hard/I memorised Docker for two years in school and never actually learned it. Then a contract forced the gap into the open. The technology was not the problem.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick Takehttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/stop-giving-chatgpt-biometrics/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/stop-giving-chatgpt-biometrics/A viral trend has people uploading their palm prints to ChatGPT for fake horoscopes. The same palm prints that unlock payment systems at every Whole Foods in America. This ends one way.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick Takehttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/pixel-10-pro-no-regrets/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/pixel-10-pro-no-regrets/I spent a decade buying mid-range phones because flagship features felt like a tax on gimmicks nobody uses. Five months with a Pixel 10 Pro and the math has stopped working.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTReviewhttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/astro-custom-website/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/astro-custom-website/Most frameworks ship a JavaScript runtime to render a page that is mostly text. Astro.js does not. That single decision is why your site will load faster, rank higher, and stop costing you in bundle size.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/claude-design-vs-ai-studio/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/claude-design-vs-ai-studio/Anthropic finally shipped a design tool that does not produce the same website every time. Google AI Studio still makes a better first impression. Here is how I am using both.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTToolshttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/cloudflare-pages-deployment/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/cloudflare-pages-deployment/One GitHub repo, one Cloudflare project, zero deployment scripts. That is the entire pipeline, and it has never let me down.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalhttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/llm-stack-daily-tools/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/llm-stack-daily-tools/I use two LLMs every day. Gemini for speed, Claude for depth. The one most people default to did not survive the cut.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTToolshttps://abhaybagda.com/writing/too-dangerous-to-release/https://abhaybagda.com/writing/too-dangerous-to-release/Anthropic says they built a model too powerful to release. If that sounds familiar, it is. Except this one actually found a 27-year-old security bug.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTQuick Take