Harsh Vardhan Sharma
I build things, break things, and write about what happens in between.
I occasionally write about interesting things I find and debug during work - bugs that took too long, tools that clicked, ideas worth thinking through.
Recent writing
All posts →OpenClaw broke overnight due to an Anthropic policy change. Instead of fixing it, I replaced it with one file and three dependencies.
A recruiter DM, a GitHub repo, and a backdoor hiding in 300 lines of fake test comments.
From INR 4.44 to INR 0.65 per message across 500k monthly messages - no infrastructure changes, just smarter session management.
40-50TB of media per month, 125k DAU, and a two-part trick that dropped our CDN bill by 95%.
A residential proxy network with 3,000 globally connected nodes, a 3-tier self-sorting protocol, and an ethical take on a shady industry.