Amrita

[Josh Cohenzadeh @jshchnz]

SILICON VALLEY WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL, OVERPRICED “OBSERVABILITY” COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT ENGINEERS MONITOR LOGS, METRICS, AND TRACES! That decision belongs to YOUR CEO, and the tremendous leaders who run your FinOps spreadsheets.

The price-gouging maniacs at DATADOG have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM hardworking teams into paying for every single “Custom Metric,” every “Host,” every “Container,” and every “Somehow We Found Another Billable Unit.” Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN BUDGETS at risk, our runway in danger, and our CFO in COMPLETE JEOPARDY.

Therefore, I am directing EVERY STARTUP in the all of SILICON VALLEY to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all unnecessary use of Datadog’s technology. We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and we will not do business with them again! There will be a Six Month phase-out period for services that are deeply addicted to dashboards, at various levels. Datadog better get their act together and be helpful during this phase-out period, or I will use the Full Power of PROCUREMENT to make them comply — with major cost-cutting and “please cancel” consequences to follow.

WE will decide the fate of our monitoring — NOT some out-of-control, overpriced telemetry tax run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE LOGS GREAT AGAIN!

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I wrote a 5,000-word essay warning that AI will replace most white-collar jobs within five years.

I am the CEO of an AI company that replaces white-collar jobs.

The essay is called "Something Big Is Happening." I compared it to February 2020 — the quiet moment before the pandemic arrived. My investors liked that framing. It implied inevitability. Inevitability is the best sales pitch there is because it removes the option of saying no.

The essay went viral. Fifty million views. Business Insider covered it. People called it "chilling" and "a must-read." A man in the replies said it made him hug his children. My head of growth said our signups tripled that week. I told her not to post that publicly.

In the essay, I said AI is no longer a tool. It's a colleague. I used the word "colleague" specifically because my company sells an AI writing tool that does exactly what a colleague would do, except it costs fourteen dollars a month and doesn't take PTO. We call the product HyperWrite. We have not yet had to explain why someone who sells a product called HyperWrite is warning the world about the dangers of writing being automated. Nobody has asked. I'm not going to bring it up.

I used AI to help me write the essay. I want to be clear: I see no contradiction in this. The cigarette executive who smokes is not a hypocrite. He is a customer.

When the essay went more viral than expected, I posted a follow-up. "To be very, very clear," I wrote, "I didn't write this to scare people." I used "very" twice because once would not have been enough to counterbalance the 5,000-word essay titled "Something Big Is Happening" that explicitly compared my product category to a respiratory pandemic that killed seven million people.

I said it was my "duty" to warn the public. I used a parenthetical — "(those of us in the AI space)" — because I wanted to establish that some of us carry burdens the rest of you cannot understand. We have seen the future. We are building the future. We are also selling the future at a subscription price point, but that part isn't in the parenthetical.

Fifteen influencers shared the essay. One called me "an AI OG." Another said the quiet part: "For the few thousand of us here on X and in the bubble, some of this sounds obvious. But there's a whole other world out there that doesn't quite understand what's coming for them." He meant this as empathy. It read like a nature documentary.

The company, if you are wondering, is an LLM wrapper. We take a large language model that someone else built and put a text box in front of it. Our primary use case is email autocomplete. I described this in the essay as "a colleague capable of independent judgment." My VP of Product asked if we should update the landing page to say that. I said absolutely not.

I closed the essay by telling people to prepare. I did not tell them what to prepare for, because the honest answer is "to become my customer." That felt too direct. So I said something about the world changing and left it vague enough for people to project their own anxieties onto it.

The anxieties drove the engagement. The engagement drove the signups. The signups drove the Series B conversation.

I didn't write this to scare people.

I wrote it to convert them.

[kitze @thekitze]

where are my "riding m1 mac till it dies" homies

[Cosmic Duck 🦆 @MetaphysicaDuck]

You thought systemd was bloat? You're running genetic code that needs to build lizard hands before making human hands because of 250M years old technical debt

[Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 @kevinweil]

I want to frame this whole article.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I am (slowly) re-reading the Tolkien legendarium (of which Lord of the Rings is a small part). The whole body of work is so incredible and there's nothing else like it... it dilutes other worlds of fiction. Wait - your story doesn't have a comprehensive history/mythology spanning multiple ages all the way back to a creation myth as detailed in separate volumes? You didn't first invent new languages and dialects for your characters? You didn't pack it with powerful themes and stories written it in a beautiful, archaic style and compose poems and songs alongside? It didn't take you multiple decades of iteration? And what of all the uncharted territory still remaining? Is Tom Bombadil one of the Ainur. Where are the Entwives. What happened to the two unaccounted Istari. Can we hear more about what it was like in Cuiviénen when the elves first awoke? Or to see the light of the two trees of Valinor. Or of the splendor of the caves of Aglarond.

What's most on my mind though - the Tolkien legendarium is imo a concrete example of a height of culture. Does AI, today or soon, make it easier to reach this high via empowerment in both writing and ideation? Or harder, when quick wins are tempting and ~free, and an independent ability to create is stifled. If such a body of work is made again but now with heavy AI assistance, does it inspire the same wonder? What if thousands of them come out on demand with just a prompt? Why do you feel cheated when you learn that something your read was AI generated? Is it transient or a function of capability? Is it slop? What is slop? Or is wonder inseparable from its own creation myth of a lifelong obsession of a mind like your own? So many questions.

[David K 🎹 @DavidKPiano]

It's Monday, survey the damage, cry a little, and start cleaning up

[Prashant Pitti @ppitti]

🚨 MAJOR UPDATE on Bangalore Traffic Project!

I am confident of improving Bangalore traffic by 25-30% within a year's time

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1. Collaboration at Scale

In just 10 days, after meeting the commissioners of BTP, BBMP, CP, Google team, IISC professors, Scientist, Road Engineers, Traffic Related Entrepreneurs. All three newly appointed commissioners were very kind to invite me to showcase existing capabilities AND collaborate to work together. For the first time we are bringing all key public and private players - to the same table.

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2. Quick Optimization Projects

A) Bangalore Traffic Simulators
Both BTP and IISC have simulation models, which can create millions of re-routing permutations to reduce travel-time (not shortest distance). I have requested the data from Google, Uber, Ola, Rapido, that will make models predict better re-routing. Some of them have confirmed to help. Waiting for others. If the model starts working, we will be able to predict where/when gridlock is going to happen, so we can fix it before it occurs.

B) Fixing Feedback Loop
Govt already has apps, where people can report potholes. I will take ownership of that app, to increase its scope (report illegal parking, broken signal, wrong side driving, water logging, broken vehicle, etc). I will also increase accountability and recognition by showcasing all the complaints lodged AND action-taken (along with time-stamp) publicly.

C) Hyperlocal Rain Predictor
Govt closes the road to do infra/maintenance work, but then it starts raining on that patch of road and work halts. This leads to crazy downtime and traffic congestion. Hyperlocal Rain Predictor project will also allow us to fix drainage issues, even before it happens.

D) Green Wave Signals: Putting traffic lights in sync, so they move vehicles in waves, instead of stopping at every junction. A pilot is already happening, we will analyse the results to see if it makes sense to be done at City level.

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3. The Vision for India

Many people mentioned in my last post "Bangalore Traffic is an Infra problem", congrats on stating the obvious. If we continue to wait for the infra to become better, then we are merely playing a catch-up game with the West. There is so much scope to optimize current infra, and I would rather focus on that. This is no longer about rants or blaming the system. It’s about practical optimism - believing that with data, intent, and collaboration, we can improve what feels unfixable.

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4. Ask from Readers:

A) Continue your support and share/comment. The more you amplify, the more right folks will be able to join us in solving this gridlock. I am in it for the long haul. Are you?

B) Join our WhatsApp Community, where I will regularly post the next-steps. Plus we need more info from each one of you. On which junction/road, you face massive traffic issue. So we can present them to the right authorities. Link to join below in the comment section 👇

#BangaloreTraffic #ForPublicGoodAI #Bangalore

[Kai Lentit (e/xcel) @KaiLentit]

Interview with Senior DevOps engineer 2025 [FULL]

[Prashant Pitti @ppitti]

I am committing INR 1 Cr to find Bangalore Choke-Points via Google Maps & AL.

11 km → 2.15 hours in Bangalore Traffic on Saturday late night!

I was stuck at one choke-point at ORR, where I spent 100 mins struggling to understand why there is no traffic-light or cop here!

But I don’t want one more “Bengaluru Traffic Memes or Rant”. I WANT TO FIX IT.

Very recently, in April 2025, Google Maps started sharing "Road Management Insight". It's a city-level data in Big Query format.

Using Google Data and Satellite Imagery, we can list down all the choke-points & their exact timings in a month. For the traffic department to work on those areas specifically.

I am willing to spend INR 1 Crore on this project by funding: 1-2 senior ML/AI engineers. And providing budget for using Google Maps API calls, Satellite Imagery & GPUs

I will start this project, when BTP/BBMP: Open their raw feeds or API access AND names a team, committed to acting on the insights we generate.

🙌 How can you help right now?

1. TAG anyone you know in the Bangalore Traffic Office, BBMP or the Traffic Commissioner’s office, let this hit the right inbox.

2. ML/AI folks: comment "IN", if you can work along part-time to end this menace

3. Every commuter who’s sick of bleeding time: comment or share. More noise -> faster response.

Bengalore is India’s tech future; and people making it happen deserve MUCH better.

#BangaloreTraffic #AIforGood #OpenData #CSR #peakbengaluru

[Bhaumik Gowande @bhaumikgowande]

#HotTake196: If you cannot walk atleast 500m outside your Society/RWA gate with your baby in a stroller, your city has failed at basic urban planning.

Use this as a litmus test to demand walkable infrastructure from your netas

[caesararum, BS, DOGS @caesararum]

No ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

[Neil @irl_neil]

Obviously using chatbots makes you more dumb, everyone is skipping over the funniest part: the study authors are such dedicated LLM haters they set up traps to expose AI users lol

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

@deedydas Slight correction: the very smart engineer solved it using Opus 4 and prompting it over 30 times.

[Jamie Voynow @voynow]

Confession: I regret vibe coding so much over the past year or so and am actively trying to depend less on LLMs for writing code. I can't help but feel like my focus, debugging skills, and syntax muscle memory is worse off. Trading low level abilities for speed and product sense is good in the short term, but is not sustainable over a long career in technology.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

If you’re an AI influencer, you have an obligation to post every week:

This is wild
This is insane
RIP (popular app)
(Tech job) is dead

This is the best way to attract 100K+ followers and maximize cringe. I don’t make the rules.

[NeetCode @neetcode1]

With all the Leetcode cheating going on, I think these will be the two most likely outcomes, and I would be willing to put money on it.

1) companies keep doing LC interview but move them in person.
2) LC dies and something even worse replaces it.

Everyone hates on LC but at least it's a meritocracy.

Most of the tech companies who don't use LC like OpenAI just filter resumes based on the school you went to or previous companies.

Which is what's common in other industries. It's nearly impossible to get a prestigious finance job without going to a prestigious college.

LC is far from perfect, but be careful what you wish for.

[that one wasian whose lowkey snatched @osamabishounen]

i knew this kid in 1st grade who’d tell everyone how many “coolness points” they had from 0-100, with like precise numbers for every kid in the grade even though it was clearly just whether you were his friend or not. idk what hes doing now but he’d be a great political scientist

[Amanda Askell @AmandaAskell]

Personal highlights from Claude's snarky AI comedy set.