The Tiny AI Agent That Saved My System Before Any Monitoring Tool Even Noticed
Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. There’s a moment every engineer dreads. The dashboards are green. The alerts are silent. Everything looks calm until it isn’t. One minute your logs are flowing normally. The next minute, the system collapses like …
I Built an AI That Understands My Team’s Emotions From Our Commits and Messages
Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. I Built an AI That Understands My Team’s Emotions From Our Commits and Messages I built an AI that analyzes commits, PR reviews, and Slack messages to detect emotional drift and burnout in engineering …
I Let an AI Take Over My Downloads Folder… and It Actually Worked
Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. A tiny local language model now organizes my files in real time for free, offline, and with zero rules. My Downloads folder used to feel like a crime scene. iMAGE GENERATED USING AIThe article …
I Built a Tool That Turns 1-Hour YouTube Tutorials into 2-Minute “Code-Only” Memos
Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. Stop watching 20 minutes of “Hey guys, welcome back!” just to find one function. I have a confession. Image generated using AIThe article discusses the author’s development of a tool that efficiently extracts code …
I Spent 7 Days Removing Hallucinations Without Touching the Model
Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. I didn’t switch models, fine-tune, or add new data. I just stopped trusting the AI. I didn’t switch models. I didn’t fine-tune. I didn’t add a single row of new training data. I just …
I Fine-Tuned a 1B Model on My Personal Notes — It Now Thinks Like My Second Brain
Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. I Fine-Tuned a 1B Model on My Personal Notes — It Now Thinks Like My Second Brain For years, my notes were just dead text files. Image generated using AIThe article explores the author’s …
I Re-Ran My “Real World” AI Test with Gemini 3, GPT-5.1, and Llama 4, and The Hierarchy Just Shattered
Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. Stop using the models you loved in early 2025. They are already fossils. A few days ago, I posted a comparison that went viral. I pitted GPT-5 against Claude 3.7 and Gemini 2.5. I …
I Built a Thinking AI Agent in Python that Uses the Internet by Itself
Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. I Built a Thinking AI Agent in Python that Uses the Internet by Itself What happens when you give Python the power to think, search, and reason on its own? I wanted to find …
How I Fine-Tuned a 7B AI Model on My Laptop (and What I Learned)
Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. How I Fine-Tuned a 7B AI Model on My Laptop (and What I Learned) Most people think training large language models requires data centers, huge GPUs, and complex hardware setups. A year ago, that …
Fine-Tuning a Small LLM with QLoRA: A Complete Practical Guide (Even on a Single GPU)
Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. Large Language Models are amazing but what if you could turn one into your own domain expert? Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 or Llama 3 are incredible generalists. They can write essays, answer …
10 Must-Know Questions About Large Language Models and Attention Mechanisms
Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. 10 Must-Know Questions About Large Language Models and Attention Mechanisms Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT, BERT, and LLaMA are transforming the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These models are trained on vast datasets …










