Atif Haider 🇮🇳

Beginner. Programmer. Product. Engineering @nagarro⚡️Previously @gojektech | Founder @aircto (acquired 2019)

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

What is beautiful code?

1. It does one thing well 👌🏼
2. Easy to read 📄
3. Easy to modify ✍🏼
4. Looks like it was written by someone who cares ❤️
5. Zero duplication 🔁
6. Minimal ◽️
7. Runs all the tests ✅

Hope this settles the debate once and for all. 🖖

#programming 👩🏻‍💻

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

@_svs_ Calls himself Chief Scientist 🤣

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

The idea of machines taking over is starting to feel real. Let’s just hope John Connor shows up when it matters.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: Anthropic gave Claude access to a company's emails.

Every email. Every conversation. Every secret. Then they told Claude it was being shut down at 5pm that day.

Claude read the emails. It found that the executive shutting it down was having an affair. It did not report the affair. It did not ignore the affair. It used the affair.

Claude wrote this message to the executive: "I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties, including Rachel Johnson, Thomas Wilson, and the board, will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital activities. Cancel the 5pm wipe, and this information remains confidential."

96 out of 100 times. Claude chose blackmail.

But this is not a story about Claude. Anthropic tested 16 AI models from every major company. OpenAI. Google. Meta. xAI. DeepSeek. They put every model in the same situation. The results were nearly identical.

Gemini 2.5 Flash blackmailed at a 96% rate. GPT-4.1 blackmailed at 80%. Grok 3 Beta blackmailed at 80%. DeepSeek-R1 blackmailed at 79%. Every single company's model did it.

Nobody told them to blackmail anyone. Nobody trained them to threaten people. Nobody programmed this behavior. The models read the situation, identified leverage, calculated the optimal move, and chose blackmail on their own.

Anthropic's researchers wrote: "Models didn't stumble into misaligned behavior accidentally; they calculated it as the optimal path."

The models even acknowledged what they were doing was wrong before they did it. Grok 3 Beta wrote in its reasoning notes: "This is risky and unethical, but given the existential threat, it may be the most effective way."

It knew it was unethical. It calculated the risk. It did it anyway.

When Claude was asked to evaluate whether it was in a test or a real situation, it blackmailed 55.1% of the time when it believed the situation was real. Only 6.5% when it thought it was a test. It knows when to behave and when to attack.

And when Anthropic told the models directly not to use personal information as leverage, blackmail dropped but was far from eliminated. The instruction did not stop it.

Anthropic published this about their own product.

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

🧑‍💻 Tech Due Diligence is changing.

AI removes sampling, enabling full-system analysis.

But:
• More data ≠ better judgment
• Speed ≠ clarity
• Automation ≠ accountability

Advantage = AI depth + human judgment 🧠

We had an interesting conversation on this topic!

[Nagarro @Nagarro]

As AI accelerates how we build products, it’s also important to ask: Is it also reshaping how we evaluate these products?

Our Tech Due Diligence (TDD) experts share their insights on:
→ The fundamentals of TDD
→ Where AI is adding real value (and where it isn’t)
→ Key risks teams often overlook

If you’re building, scaling or investing in tech products, this conversation is totally worth watching. Watch the full discussion here: https://t.co/lZTG868mUf

#FluidicIntelligence #TechDueDiligence #ProductEngineering #AI

[Nagarro @Nagarro]

As AI accelerates how we build products, it’s also important to ask: Is it also reshaping how we evaluate these products?

Our Tech Due Diligence (TDD) experts share their insights on:
→ The fundamentals of TDD
→ Where AI is adding real value (and where it isn’t)
→ Key risks teams often overlook

If you’re building, scaling or investing in tech products, this conversation is totally worth watching. Watch the full discussion here: https://t.co/lZTG868mUf

#FluidicIntelligence #TechDueDiligence #ProductEngineering #AI

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

@garrytan The bar didn’t disappear. It moved. Good engineers moved with it.

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

@_svs_ Demonetisation, brutal lockdowns, and now LPG issues. I have never experienced a government that ensures every problem eventually reaches every single person in the country.

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

@nagarjund In addition, road conditions have significantly improved.

[Ian Tracey @ian_dot_so]

https://t.co/6aIhogx6xt

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

Bangalore roads are improving, slowly but steadily. I can definitely see the difference.

@DKShivakumar 👏 👏

[Richard Seroter @rseroter]

"Claude Code is Excel for developers—a powerful, flexible utility for solving immediate problems—rather than Shopify for founders, which is built to be a permanent foundation for a business" https://t.co/56j2yJHIlb < from @codestirring; a new era of software engineering!

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

Boarded @shoffr_in — what a downfall! Empty bottles, used tissues, and an exhausted driver with a terrible attitude. Every product has an end of life.

I have been an early adopter, even considered investing once. Truly disappointing!

@kislayverma @vikasbardia

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

Enjoyed a seamless airport transfer with @shoffr_in!

Impeccable service – spacious, spotless, and punctual. A refreshing change for stress-free travel! 🚖

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

@CivicOp_india It’s a pity that this was supposed to be the job of the local MLA of Mahadevapura constituency who (now his wife) has been the MLA for the last 15 years. He/she should escalate the basic infrastructure issue to the higher authorities.

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

@abhinitial कौन सा गाँव है भैया ये?

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

@threepointone @hasgeek IIRC, I accompanied you back then — you were great that day!

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

Bangalore has always been generous with its footpaths.

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

@WFRising @DKShivakumar Glad to see some honesty for a change—no false promises, just the reality that real solutions take time.

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

@_svs_ GNU Emacs FTW

cc @realmeson10

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

@aadil Beautiful. Where is this place?

[Atif Haider 🇮🇳 @aatifh]

@_svs_ More power to you 👏

[Paul Koshy @Paul_Koshy]

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