Stories by venkii

What are you getting paid in? (2024)

Reverse-engineering Firestore calls to export your data

A Review of Alpha School

Scribble-based forecasting and AI 2027

Google Gemini has the worst LLM API

Survey of LLM Finetuning APIs (Apr 2025)

Love Your Competitors

Is Claude Down?

Unusual $/MTok Numbers

How to Use Clerk with Firestore

Outside Game, Inside Game

How to Evaluate Stock Option Offers

The Firestore vulnerability found in Arc is likely widespread

LLM costs per MTok (updated 4/18/2024)

Why It's Hard to Innovate in Construction (2021)

A Brief History of Construction Startups (2022)

Replicate vs. Fly GPU cold-start latency

Equity comp induces a desirable correlation between stock price and retention