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Thoughts, experiments and tutorials on AI, LLM, software and security

By Mayank Kumar Poddar. 7 posts on AI, software, security and the odd experiment.

  1. The viral Oct 21 'internet broke' thread, fact-checked

    A viral post listed ten security incidents and called Oct 21, 2026 historic. I checked every claim against primary sources. All ten incidents are real, but several details are not.

    6 min readAnalysis

  2. I got sick of YouTube ads, so I built my own music player

    I wanted YMusic's look and no ads, without paying or installing anything. Claude Code, a phone on a cable and one afternoon later, I have a music site I fully control.

    3 min readExperiments

  3. The half-life of the best AI model

    Last year's best model is this year's cheap one. Two years of OpenAI and Anthropic releases, prices and usage show how fast.

    5 min readAnalysis

  4. Most of our TDS forum threads weren't about learning

    I read all 281 course-forum threads from the May 2026 term. 88% were about marks, bugs and deadlines, and replies still came within hours.

    1 min readAnalysis

  5. I logged my cursor for a month and found a law from 1954

    82,866,811 cursor samples in 32 days. The pointer sat still 91.9% of the time, then reproduced Fitts's law from 1954.

    1 min readExperiments

  6. Third place in a CTF, solo, against 500+ teams

    My teammate dropped out right before a CTF with 500+ teams. I played alone with OSINT skills and an AI coding agent, and finished third.

    1 min readExperiences

  7. Hello, world

    Why this blog exists, how it is built, and what to expect here.

    1 min readThoughts