Rahul Khandelwal

Entrepreneurial | Chasing goofy dreams | Namma Bengaluru | Views are personal

[Rahul Khandelwal @_peculiar_guy]

When fear tries to hide an experience from you, it usually means that what you are looking for is right on the other side.

[Amazon Web Services @awscloud]

More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.

[james hawkins @james406]

i just used AI to identify a $100+ million opportunity for Seattle.

currently, to get across the water, you have to drive all the way around it, as cars don't float

this is extremely inefficient. but if you look closely, bainbridge island and seattle aren't actually all that far apart. and if we were to construct some sort of boat that carried cars, it could make the trip much quicker

together with claude code, i planned out this potential route for the boat

does anyone have any contacts in the local government?

[Steve the Beaver @beaversteever]

incredible that we built all this RAG and vector database stuff and it turns out that grep from 1973 works better than all that

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

The rise of AI programming agents is changing the nature of software development in the same way as did the introduction of compilers in the time of Grave Hopper.

I’ll say it again: the entire history of software engineering is one of rising levels of abstraction.

[Deedy @deedydas]

If you feel like giving up, you must read this never-before-shared story of the creator of PyTorch and ex-VP at Meta, Soumith Chintala.

> from hyderabad public school, but bad at math
> goes to a "tier 2" college in India, VIT in Vellore
> rejected from all 12 universities for US masters despite 1420 on the GRE
> fuckit.jpg
> goes to the US anyway on a J-1 visa to CMU with no plan
> applies for masters (again) to 15 universities
> rejected from all except USC and with late admissions, NYU in 2010
> finds this guy called Yann LeCun (before he was famous)
> starts getting into open source
> rejected from all jobs including DeepMind
> only job is Amazon as test engineer
> his PhD mentor helps him get a job at a small startup (MuseAmi)
> rejected from DeepMind
> couldn't get H-1B because of J-1 home return issue; gets waiver through months of approval with USCIS and US State Dept
> very low on confidence
> In 2011/12 builds one of the fastest AI inference engines on phones
> rejected from DeepMind
> emailed Yann again and joins FAIR because of Torch7 open-source work
> scrapes through bootcamp at Facebook, struggling on an HBase task
> L8/L9 engineers at Facebook struggle to get ImageNet working
> figures out numerics / hyperparam issue as an L4
> first big win!
> FAIR goes well, runs 3 person torch7 team and co-creates PyTorch
> because of politics, management wants to shut down PyTorch
> cries-at-bar.jpg, literally
> eventually some people save PyTorch and it launches in 2017
> gets a EB-1 green card!
> the rest is history...

Think about that. He went to a tier 2 college. Was rejected from all Masters programs 2x. Rejected from every single job except Amazon test engineering. Rejected from DeepMind 3x. Nearly had his baby project shut down. Struggled with visa issues. After 12 years of failures (2005-17), he eventually rose to became a VP at Meta one of the most influential people in AI!

Soumith's story is one of resilience and he's living proof that no matter how down in the dumps you are, there's always hope.

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

this is a catastrophe. StackOverflow provided data to LLMs, LLMs replaced StackOverflow, and now no new Q&A hub exists to provide fresh data. it’s a self-undermining causal loop, like mold growing on food, consuming it, and dying once the food is gone.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

So I bought a $2,000 iPhone 17 Pro Max 1TB and it's the buggiest Apple experience I've ever had

First the data transfer failed after 5
minutes, then it had to reset itself, and I had to do everything again

Then after resetting it just would NOT detect the old phone to transfer data from

Then when it did work after trying for ages, it took 6 hours to transfer but kept saying "4 minutes left" (???)

Then when it was done I couldn't go on hotel WiFi because to open the captive WiFi portal to enter the password for the hotel WiFi I needed a browser but I didn't have a browser (cause EU law)

But when I opened Safari, it'd ask me what browser I wanted (cause EU law), but then immediately fail because it didn't have internet to download the browser (catch-22) so I could never login to the hotel wifi to download my browser (???)

Ok then I connected to 5G hotspot of other phone, worked

Then when I got it working none of my apps would download, just all apps say "Waiting..."

Then I went to the App Store to at least install Telegram to chat with my friend, but tapping the download button would then show the rotating loading spinner and then reset to the download button repeatedly

So I gave up and now use my old iPhone

I don't think anyone at Apple actually goes through this process anymore or they just don't give a shit how absolutely user hostile the Apple experience has become

Tim Cook should be ashamed

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

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We’re sharing SAM Audio with the community, along with a perception encoder model, benchmarks and research papers, to empower others to explore new forms of expression and build applications that were previously out of reach.

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/FPnfv66UCP

[Haider. @haider1]

Yann LeCun says we're fooled by LLMs because they manipulate language well, and we associate that with intelligence

But language fluency doesn't mean underlying intelligence

Every generation since the 1950s claimed its technique was the ticket to human-level AI

All were wrong.

"this generation with LLMs is also wrong"

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Amazon: AI AI AI AI AI AI AI--wait no not like that.

Pretty rich for *Amazon* to blame others for "a degraded shopping experience."

[JNS @_devJNS]

agree?

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

Corporate buzzword masterclass

[Revant Himatsingka “Food Pharmer” @foodpharmer2]

Major Update: We got Sunfeast to pull down their Dark Fantasy ad within 12 hours.

Two days back, I asked Sunfeast to remove their ad. This ad suggested that parents should pack chocolate instead of veggies in their kids’ tiffin.

Sunfeast removed those ads within 12 hours of my request. This is proof that when we stand up, big brands listen. Thank you Sunfeast!

Just the way we criticise companies when they threaten us with legal notices, we must also appreciate them when they act responsibly.

Let’s keep pushing. Let’s keep calling out misleading marketing.

Let’s make India healthy again.

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

So, the government is pushing people to use public transport (which is inadequate), or to car-pool (whose apps are banned), in order to decongest roads (which are half-unusable), and clear lanes (that are non-existent).

[Paul Graham @paulg]

There is something deeply wrong with Twitter. It has always been rough here, but in the past year it has become an even worse kind of nasty. Do you think maybe it's time to try to turn things around, Elon?

[Sports Yaari @YaariSports]

Pakistan media shamelessly showing pride as Mohsin Naqvi ran away with the Asia Cup trophy – even appreciating him for this shameful act! 🏆🤦‍♂️

#mohsinnaqvi #Pakistan #AsiaCupFinal #INDvsPAK

[rae @ChillamChilli]

So this AAP MLA @Saurabh_MLAgk challenged Surya Kumar Yadav.

SKY responded 🔥🔥

[Mary Millben @MaryMillben]

I love PM @narendramodi for this tweet! Victory on all fronts. Yes Sir!
Congrats to my beloved India! 🇮🇳🇺🇸#INDvPAK #IndianCricket #OperationSindoor #AsiaCup2025

[Surya Kumar Yadav @surya_14kumar]

I have decided to donate my match fees from this tournament to support our Armed Forces and the families of the victims who suffered from the Pahalgam terror attack. You always remain in my thoughts 🙏🏽

Jai Hind 🇮🇳