arvind deshraj

[Florian Brand @xeophon]

working on a big rewrite and i can only agree

current gen of models are very capable but also writing abstractions that are too sophisticated and complicated to understand (and also often not needed).

i often find myself discarding the code these days and then re-doing it

[Kenton Varda @KentonVarda]

I just declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (e.g. PR and commit messages, also issues/tickets) from my team.

AI was writing change descriptions that were worse than useless to me as I tried to review PRs: outlining details of the code that could easily be seen by looking at the code, but omitting the higher-level framing needed to understand broadly what the code is doing.

I think people like having AI write these things because the output looks structured and thorough, which makes it feel professional in a way. But this isn't actually valuable. Concise, high-level descriptions are better for everyone. If I need to use my own AI to interpret what your AI wrote then something is wrong. Let AI write code, sure, but for the description, I'd rather see your prompt than your output.

We could maybe have extended agents.md with guidelines on writing descriptions, but this seemed a bit pointless since a good, concise change description only takes a few minutes to write -- not a significant time savings to delegate to AI. At least, it doesn't take long if you understand the code -- and if you don't understand the code, then I'm definitely not merging it.

[arvind deshraj @ArvindDeshraj]

@_xjdr Weren't you using a codex fork? What made you switch from that?

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[Ben Springwater @benspringwater]

In 2019 my girlfriend (now wife) sent Patrick Collison a cold email for the ages. Patrick replied 3 minutes later, warmly, with a yes.

A few weeks later I met Patrick at Nopa at 9pm. He ordered tea, I ordered something stronger. He was congenial and energetic, and 90 minutes flew by.

The whole episode was special. My wife sending that email was a remarkable gift. Ditto Patrick's generosity.

They say never meet your heroes but I think the better advice is to choose the right ones.

[xjdr @_xjdr]

https://t.co/DerQs219M1

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Alcaraz beats Novak Djokovic 2-6 6-2 6-3 7-5 at the Australian Open

Carlos becomes the youngest man in history to complete the Career Grand Slam.

He is also the first player to EVER beat Novak in an Australian Open final.

Still undefeated in 2026.

✅7th Grand Slam title
✅1st Australian Open title

22 years old.

What a player he’s becoming.

What a career we’re witnessing.

🇪🇸

[Abhiroop Chatterjee @AbhiroopChat]

PM is visiting Bangalore. My 5-year-old girl sees it as her chance to finally fix traffic.

[Ameya Daigavane @BigAmeya]

Really excited to (finally) share the updated JAMUN preprint and codebase! We perform Langevin molecular dynamics in a smoothed space which allows us to take larger integrator steps. This requires learning a score function only at a single noise level, unlike diffusion models.

[Sumanth ✈️ ICML 🇰🇷 @sumanthd17]

Got a chance to showcase what we’ve been building at @SarvamAI to a larger audience at @google I/O Connect. Thanks for having us @osanseviero, was great sharing what we’re up to! (so far) 🚀

[Ameya Daigavane @BigAmeya]

Excited to be presenting “The Price of Freedom: Exploring Expressivity and Runtime Tradeoffs in Equivariant Tensor Products” at ICML today, at the East Exhibition Hall in Hall A/B at 4:30 PM!
Work done with the amazing YuQing Xie, @_MitKotak and @tesssmidt. #ICML2025

[arvind deshraj @ArvindDeshraj]

Aged like fine wine. Congratulations dude!
10,000 soon

[Sumanth ✈️ ICML 🇰🇷 @sumanthd17]

1000 citations before 30!! Let’s see how this tweet ages

[prozac & cody @clubskunks]

I was wondering how the hell they did this but I should've known that the answer was just that they literally dropped him from a plane and set him on fire over and over and over

[Cricinfo @cricinfo]

◾ 14 years in whites
◾ 4th most Test runs for India
◾ 4th most Test 100s for India
◾ Most matches as India's Test captain
◾ Most wins as India's Test captain
◾ He's led India to a long stay at No. 1 in Tests
◾ He's led India to a first-ever series win in Australia

He made the game better. A stunning, legendary career.

Happy Test retirement, Virat 👏

[Rutvik Vijjali @rutvik_vijjali]

World class customer service @NoBrokerCare ! 🙏

[Sumanth ✈️ ICML 🇰🇷 @sumanthd17]

I mean I guess it was just a matter of time. Back to working with @selfawareatom and the most cracked team at @SarvamAI 🔥

[arvind deshraj @ArvindDeshraj]

@sumanthd17 100%. The Louvre is simply too big to do justice in a single visit. I'll probably do a guided tour the next time I go

[Arnav Bansal ⠕ @itsarnavb]

Today's nerd snipe:

> boiled eggs suck because yolk and white are best cooked at diff. temperatures

> talented chefs try to do this by cooking eggs sous-vide between 60°C and 70°C, but still not good enough unless they use complex techniques to separate white and yolk

> Nature paper figures out how to cook eggs evenly by duty-cycling the temperature of water between 30°C and 100°C every 2 mins, derived from a model of heat transfer between yolk and white

> @sdamico implements the paper using his stoves that can hold water steady at 30°C and 100°C

I wonder what other culinary unlocks are possible when your stovetop comes with a closed loop control system

[Raz @RazOlsRF]

”Is he gonna play every point like that?!” He sure damn did.

[arvind deshraj @ArvindDeshraj]

@ludwigABAP This OSDI keynote from a couple of years ago is along these same lines - https://t.co/0bZw2neF4a