Claude Code, Copilot, and AI-assisted development in real client work
AI Tools
For years the sales side of running Dolphin Infotek lived in a mix of email threads, WhatsApp messages, and whatever I remembered from the last call. It worked in the sense that deals still closed, but "worked" is doing a lot of lifting in that sentence. At some
Self-Hosting
Over the course of a few days I stood up two self-hosted portals for the same underlying reason: SaaS pricing for small teams stops making sense once you actually count seats. Twenty as a CRM, OpenProject for project tracking, both behind nginx on the same box, both wired into
Self-Hosting
This blog costs me about ₹70 a month to run — and that's entirely the domain name. The hosting is genuinely free, running on an Oracle Cloud Always Free VM, and the setup took an evening because I didn't follow a tutorial: I described what I wanted
AI Tools
In my last post I gave the short version: Claude Code and GitHub Copilot occupy different layers, and they're not really competitors. This post is the long version — a head-to-head from someone who runs both in daily work, organized around the question that actually matters: for
AI Tools
There's no shortage of "top 10 AI coding tools" listicles, and most of them read like the author spent ten minutes with each tool and a marketing page. This is the opposite: a short list of only the tools I've genuinely used in daily
AI Tools
Most posts about AI coding assistants are demos — a clean prompt, a clean result, wrapped up in three minutes. Real client work doesn't look like that. It looks like a locked file breaking your build at 6pm, an OAuth client mismatch that has nothing to do with the
Company Building
Dolphin Infotek is a 12-person company. We build SEBI-compliant software for capital markets — insider trading and UPSI compliance, ESOP management, financial consolidation — for over 500 clients including some of the largest names in Indian banking and financial services. I lead sales and business development. I also write code