Aabhas Mathur

Don't know much, trying to figure out Me.

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

@anujcodes_21 Loved the masterclass

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok will never go to therapy. Never.

[Naval @naval]

Is Traditional Software Engineering Dead?

“Does this mean that traditional software engineering is dead? Absolutely not. Software engineers—even the ones who are not necessarily tuning or training AI models—these are now among the most leveraged people on earth. Sure, the guys who are training and tuning models are even more leveraged because they’re building the tool set that software engineers are using.

But software engineers still have two massive advantages on you. First, they think in code, so they actually know what’s going on underneath. And all abstractions are leaky. So when you have a computer programming for you—when you have Claude Code or equivalent programming for you—it’s going to make mistakes.

It’s going to have bugs. It’s going to have suboptimal architecture. So it’s not going to be quite right. And someone who understands what’s going on underneath will be able to plug the leaks as they occur.

So if you want to build a well-architected application, if you want to be able to even specify a well-architected application, if you want to be able to make it run at high performance, if you want it to do its best, if you want to catch the bugs early, then you’re going to want to have a software engineering background.

The traditional software engineer is going to be able to use these tools much better. And there are still many kinds of problems in software engineering that are out of scope for these AI programs today. The easiest way to think about those is problems that are outside of their data distribution.

For example, if they need to do a binary sort or reverse a linked list, they’ve seen countless examples of that, so they’re extremely good at it. But when you start getting out of their domain—where you have to write very high-performance code, when you’re running on architectures that are novel or brand new, when you’re actually creating new things or solving new problems, then you still need to get in there and hand code it.

At least until either there are so many of those examples that new models can be trained on them, or until these models can sufficiently reason at even higher levels of abstraction and crack it on their own…

And remember: there is no demand for average. The average app—nobody wants it, at least as long as it’s not filling some niche that is filled by a superior app. The app that is better will win essentially a hundred percent of the market. Maybe there’s some small percentage that will bleed off to the second-best app because it does some little niche feature better than the main app, or it’s cheaper, or something of the sort.

But generally speaking, people only want the best of anything. So the bad news is there’s no point in being number two or number three—like in the famous Glengarry Glen Ross scene where Alec Baldwin says, “First place gets a Cadillac Eldorado, second place gets a set of steak knives, and third place you’re fired.”

That’s absolutely true in these winner-take-all markets. That’s the bad news: You have to be the best at something if you want to win.

However, the set of things you can be best at is infinite. You can always find some niche that is perfect for you, and you can be the best at that thing. This goes back to an old tweet of mine where I said, “Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.”

And I think that still applies in this age of AI.”

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

In the future if AI turns into a religion, @sama would look good as an AI Jesus. 🤣

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

Look for the heart/like button in the image, a glitch in the Matrix/@Meta

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

Power to selling DREAMS!

Soviet Union now known as Russia, were the first to have a space program to launch a satellite(sputnik) or to send a man in the space, but we don't talk about it as much as we talk about the dream America sold to the public "To put a man on the Moon".

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

I'm finally understanding statistics and it's implementation in Machine learning.
Excited for what lies ahead.
🤓

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

So sleepy rn 😴

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

I want to be good at something but can't find what?

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

Going back to the roots gonna start reading openCV docs again 😬

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

Creating a tensor is like racism for numpy nd array.
Like
"In GPU dogs and nd array not allowed"
😂😂😂
#ai #ml #machinelearning #gpu

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

@PhysInHistory A beautiful mind

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

@crazyclips_ Someone has to discipline him when his parents cant

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"I had a teacher that didn't like me and I didn't like him. At the end of the year he decided to fail me. The ironic thing is that the topic was chemistry. I have the distinction of being the only chemistry laureate who failed the topic in high school!"

- Tomas Lindahl

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

I think this scene from "Before sunrise" is true. As that tells us why poetry used to be more beautiful than reality.

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

Podcasting is fun, but it's very difficult to find guests and invite them for the podcast.

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

It's been weeks since I read the whole newspaper. Finally I read the whole newspaper without anyone interrupting me. Feels awesome 😎.
Corporate majdoors like me have no time to read anymore 🥲🥲🥲

[Aabhas Mathur @aabhas_mathur]

Helping out co-workers is fun until it backfires on you by finding a big in your old project.