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| 1 | +Date: 07-02-2026 |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +Duration: 1 hr 04 mins |
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| 5 | +==== Topics Discussed |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +* Round of introductions took place with participants sharing their backgrounds and current work. |
| 8 | +* Darshan Rander showcased his portfolio AI chatbot project that uses RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to answer questions about himself. |
| 9 | + ** The project scrapes data from his resume, blogs, and portfolio site to provide contextual responses. |
| 10 | + ** He implemented a custom caching mechanism where AI responses are vectorized and stored, allowing for cache hits on similar queries (80% similarity threshold). |
| 11 | + ** Discussion on cache invalidation strategies when source documents are updated. |
| 12 | + ** Frontend was generated using OpenAI Codex. |
| 13 | +* Discussion on various LinkedIn scrapers and the ethics of scraping. |
| 14 | + ** link:https://community.hubspot.com/t5/Sales-Integrations/Pulling-LinkedIn-information-into-Sales-CRM-one-way-interface/m-p/195991[Pulling LinkedIn information into Sales CRM - one way interface into HubSpot^] |
| 15 | +* Bhavesh Kukreja discussed two project ideas he's considering. |
| 16 | + ** Building a local RAG system with SLMs (Small Language Models) using Ollama for web search capabilities without relying on paid APIs. |
| 17 | + ** A shopkeeper simulation game inspired by "Good Pizza, Great Pizza" with a plot about an unplaced engineer opening a general store. |
| 18 | +* Discussion on AI coding tools comparing OpenAI Codex, Claude with Copilot extension, and others. |
| 19 | + ** Participants agreed that Claude's Copilot extension provides the best code quality with minimal tokens. |
| 20 | +* Alpesh Bhagwatkar shared updates on his activities. |
| 21 | + ** His startup Identity Shield won an award at Sandbox Innovation in Pune. |
| 22 | + ** Won a CTF competition at RAIT University. |
| 23 | + ** Currently studying for CJPT and CPTS (Certified Penetration Testing Specialist) certifications from Hack The Box. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +==== Additional Resources |
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| 27 | +* link:https://read.ai[Read.AI - AI meeting assistant plugin^] |
| 28 | +* link:https://ollama.com[Ollama - Run LLMs locally^] |
| 29 | +* link:https://weekday.works[Weekday.works^] |
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