Vignesh Ravichandran

The post that started this was four lines long. After nearly two years of daily use, Vignesh Ravichandran cancelled his Claude subscription. Slow inference, instability, too much corporate hedging. He'd switched to Pi with open-weight models months earlier and came back to check whether things had improved. They hadn't. Worth knowing who is saying it. Vignesh ran Cloudflare's OLTP databases for four and a half years, the ones backing north of 20% of the internet at 55 million requests per second. He co-founded Omnigres. He is not a person who churns because a tool had a bad week. So this walkthrough covers what he switched to.