Shirish K

Sharing my learnings from failures | Currently learning organic growth from 0

[Shirish K @5hirish]

I will always revisit this from time to time...

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There's no miracle people!

[Raja 🖤 @whynotraja]

bro just exposed how weak Congress was as an opposition party..

[Devlina Ganguly @AarKiBolboBolo2]

Yuva, Swades, Rang De Basanti songs being used in videos for the student protests
Not Dhurandhar songs
😂 shows class is timeless

[Annie Yang @annieqyang]

The most dangerous person in the age of AI is someone who was mediocre at coding but has taste, and can now build anything

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[priscilla (alt) @seashell_luvr]

If you’re a genuinely interesting person, you won’t have to play games to be exciting. When there are endless layers to you that you’ve cultivated, you naturally surprise people. When you live a rich life, you’re naturally busy and come back with real stories to tell. When you’re in tune with your body and your soul, you take time for yourself and set boundaries without pretending to be hard to get. Mind games and deception are what boring people use to compensate. It’s a way of seeking backhanded power through others when you’re divorced from your own.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Keep more evidence of your progress. Journal entries. Photos. Notes. Old goals. We spend so much time focused on how far we have left to go that we forget how far we've already come. Sometimes perspective is the only motivation you need.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I genuinely think a lot of millennials are reaching the same conclusion at the same time.

We grew up watching technology make life better every year. Cell phones. iPods. Smartphones. An app for everything. It felt like the future was arriving right in front of us, and we couldn’t wait for what came next.

Then somewhere along the way, it changed.

Everything became a subscription. Social media became algorithms. Every day feels like another once-in-a-lifetime event. The things that were supposed to save us time somehow ended up demanding more of our attention than ever.

We were sold convenience.

What we got was a world that feels faster, louder, more expensive, and somehow less human.

And that’s why so many people I know dream about a completely different life now. Not more technology. Not more optimization.

Just a quiet job, a flip phone, a small town, and a place where life feels real again.

[goma @soigomaa]

My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away

[Shirish K @5hirish]

The beautiful Port Saplaya

[Shirish K @5hirish]

I actually moved a lot of the site map crawling, page crawling, web fetching logic from the SEO audit agent back to simple python (there are some good dependencies that let you do this) back from sub agent to tools… I can kinda optimise more in think if I spend more time with it.. but right now it’s good for real world testing and iterative improvements

[Shirish K @5hirish]

@soorajchandran_ A lot of times opening up the agent hood and and digging in to see which responsibilities can be turned into simple Python function tool calls, or worst case handing off to smaller sub-agents say with haiku works great to lessen the burden, improve latency…

[Shirish K @5hirish]

Kinda had this happen to me recently when we had a click up bot review the tickets being created; it was spewing utter blabber slop of words in comments, when could have been said in 3 lines and never have I ever felt like I want to talk to a human please!

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

The industry has gone completely nuts.

Use tokens to generate AI code and documentation slop. Then use even more tokens to understand and review that slop.

Then judge engineers by token usage instead of how empathetic and clear their docs and code actually are, and completely neglect human comprehension.

Utter nonsense.

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

The industry has gone completely nuts.

Use tokens to generate AI code and documentation slop. Then use even more tokens to understand and review that slop.

Then judge engineers by token usage instead of how empathetic and clear their docs and code actually are, and completely neglect human comprehension.

Utter nonsense.

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Rick Rubin’s House on the Mountain test:

Create according to your own taste, not for applause, critics, algorithms, or market demand.

“Imagine going to live on a mountaintop by yourself, forever. You build a home that no one will ever visit. Still, you invest the time and effort to shape the space in which you’ll spend your days. The wood, the plates, the pillows—all magnificent. Curated to your taste.”

“This is the essence of great art. We create our art so we may inhabit it ourselves.”

“I'm willing to go to extremes to make the thing that I want to inhabit and it's not for anyone else. it's just for me.”

[Shirish K @5hirish]

@vikas_revivo I am team Kaustav ! And huge respect to him not putting with this kinda bs.

A very valid crash-out !

[Shirish K @5hirish]

Hey Sooraj, DM'd you! Product engineer - 8 yrs in, now in Spain 🇪🇸Valencia.

There's a 4 min Loom video in there - a fun demo of three Claude-SDK agents I shipped in last 2 months (SEO audit, site migration, a self-improving Tiktok content generation pipeline).

Also happy to share about my professional agentic work experience.

Also want to thank you for inspiring move to Europe. And proud to show some of the fun "outside of work" agentic stuff I am building.

[Shirish K @5hirish]

@adriansolarzz FORMAT

[Gurpriya @GurpriyaSidhu]

The greatest skill you can acquire is to learn to have a really good time by yourself.

And that does not mean binge watching Netflix, or scrolling on social media. That is you trying to escape yourself and your life. But spending time doing things where you are actively involved like cooking, playing music, reading, learning a new skill etc.

People who can do that well also make for great friends, colleagues, neighbours. Their cup is always full so they come out into the world with good energy. They are not seeking someone to make them feel better, instead they are the person who makes everyone else feel good.

[Shirish K @5hirish]

@rahulrana_95 Spain on Digital Nomad Visa

[Shirish K @5hirish]

@catalinmpit Hey I am in Spain 🇪🇸