Thulasiraj Komminar

Industry 4.0 | Smart Manufacturing | IIoT | Data Platform Engineer | AWS Community Builder | Terraform | MLOps | 👨‍💻@SchubergPhilis

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@awsdevelopers We hid the servers so well even the on-call engineer can’t find them at 3am.

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4 shows, 4 genres, best watch right now 🎬
#lanterns
#furious
#thedayofthejackal
#darkwinds

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Best thing from the DCU so far #lanterns

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Reacher S4 had me doubting it till ep3… then that twist hit and now I’m fully locked in🔥 #Reacher

[Prime Video @PrimeVideo]

REACHER, meet the Hoths. Season 4 is now streaming.

[MCU_UPDATES @vr_mcu]

This gif is just tooooo perfect 🤩

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#SPIDERYSSEY

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Fun movie 🍿 #spiderman

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@MarioNawfal UNPOPULAR OPINION: I would’ve won the argument if the other person hadn’t kept making valid points.

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Epic
#TheOdyssey

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It’s not just yesterday’s final. Argentina’s attitude through this whole tournament left a bad taste, and it showed again with a red card in the match, another after the whistle, and some tense scenes at the trophy ceremony. Credit to Spain for staying composed through it all, well deserved champions. 🇪🇸 #WorldCupFinal

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OK i’m safe

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Pure adrenaline #TheFurious

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Mind-blowing and refreshingly different.
#obsession

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Fuck you, Bradley 😀 #SendHelp

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#OverYourDeadBody

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#InTheGrey

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#MortalKombat

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I've got an agent in a loop optimizing a renderer with the goal to minimize frame times (and tests to measure). It got times down from 88ms to 2ms and allocations down from ~150K to 500. Sounds good, right? Wrong. This is exactly why agent psychosis is a big fucking problem.

As an experiment, I rewrote the Ghostty core render state in Go, with access to identically laid out data structures as Ghostty and the exact same validation tests. I made a purposely naive renderer (simple, correct, but slow). 88ms per frame with 150,000 allocations (horrendous, lol)!

I then kickstarted a Ralph loop to bring the frame times down. I told it it can't modify input data structures or the public API or tests (they're correct), but it can do anything else it wants. It got to work.

It has worked for about 4 hours. I've spent around $350 on this experiment so far. The results?

88ms => 1.5ms
150K allocs => ~500 allocs

Incredible right? Nope.

My hand-written renderer I ported has frame times (same benchmark) of ~20us (0.020ms) and 0 allocations in the update path.

This is the problem with psychosis and lacking systems understanding. If you don't understand the system, you're going to accept that this is an incredible result. If you understand the system, you'll see better solutions immediately and can do roughly 75x better on throughput.

The people who blindly trust agent output are in the former camp. They're sheeple, overdrinking from a fountain of mediocrity.

Standard disclaimer: I use AI all the time. I like AI. The point I'm making is to not blindly accept results. Think. Analyze. Learn.

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@ATRightMovies Lawrence of Arabia & Dune Movies

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@HouseOfHorrorCo TRASH