Aditya Rachakonda

Director of @MinivetAI Practitioner and researcher in machine learning; semantics; information retrieval. ex-Flipkart, American Express

[Aditya Rachakonda @arrac]

Why agents write in python?
1. The more concise a language is the more can be held in context.
2. The simpler a language is the easier it is to maintain it in context.
3. The more libraries there are for a task, the less needs to be written from scratch.
4. The more popular a language is the better it is represented in the training data.

Python happens to check everything for a large number of domains. Also Python is fast-enough because for all practical purposes code is IO bound and when it is not Python becomes a C wrapper.

[Vasiliy Zukanov @VasiliyZukanov]

Honest question: why choose Python for the backend in the age of AI? When agents write almost all the code, and human preferences become less important, wouldn't it make sense to optimize for performance, scalability and safety with languages like Java, C#, Go, etc.?

[Siddhartha Reddy @sids]

People need to chill. This is likely just because of embeddings (vector) search, not an evil/genius idea.

[Aditya Rachakonda @arrac]

@nileshtrivedi @elonmusk But to give credit where it is due, he did some drastic changes to monetise the tick mark, and cut a lot of slack, introduce community notes to break and build the platform back. Not everything has been great but I still feel it is the best professional social network.

[Aditya Rachakonda @arrac]

Anybody should be wary of betting against a guy who is pulling off things from the unthinkable zone to mundane consistently in a few years.

Think carefully when @elonmusk is saying something. The guy is hell bent on making those come true.

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

I don't think anyone says it's impossible to put a data centre into space. I mean, look, we ALREADY have satellites running on solar doing compute. The question is whether it makes financial sense given the current technology.

https://t.co/qdQw4Jda6S

[MG @_MG_]

Peter Pan Financial

I can’t help but notice that the “Rent > Own” thing usually comes from people who don’t have kids and don’t know how to use a hammer. Those 2 things change the value of a permanent location that you can modify/repair.

Yes, if ALL you care about is maximizing $, renting can be better in a lot of market conditions. And most people dramatically overestimate the investment value of a house. But a little diversity in the people talking about this would be amazing. People like Ramit Sethi are waaaay worse about this than Caleb Hammer.

What’s the value of:
- keeping your kids in the same school district
- maintaining school & neighborhood friendships
- keeping the same routines
- not worrying about a landlord selling the property & being asked to leave
- being able to build a workshop in the backyard for a home business
- plant fruit trees for the kids
- build a playset for the kids
- run copper through the walls for a security system that can’t be knocked offline with a $50 AliExpress device
- the flexibility to cut your house repair costs by 80% because you have DIY skills
- the flexibility to pick up a much wider range of hobbies
etc etc

[Aditya Rachakonda @arrac]

@yajnadevam Peer review means just that even in falsifiable STEM fields. They just give a different excuse (irrelevant, unimportant)

[Sachin Tendulkar @sachin_rt]

Congratulations to @RCBTweets on winning consecutive @IPL titles. One of the challenges in sport is that success changes the questions you have to answer. After winning once, the task is no longer proving you can do it, but proving you can sustain it. RCB met that challenge impressively this season. A well-deserved achievement!

[Aditya Rachakonda @arrac]

Recently I see a lot of opinions on how building more roads and car infrastructure is bad for Bengaluru. Some interesting paradoxes are quoted as well.

Bengaluru’s car density is 178 cars/1000 people (not active but all time registrations)

Active registrations:
Berlin (a very public transport friendly city) has 330
London/Paris about 250
New York 760
Los Angeles 540
SF 400
Tokyo 230

At a country level all these countries have 500+ with US having more cars than people. The cities have such low numbers due to excellent public transport.

Bengaluru on the other hand will settle around 250-300 if the public transport improves. Till then it is stupid to stop basic infra development for car users.

The reason for the growth of cars is phenomenal increase in population and significant increase in affluence.

[Aditya Rachakonda @arrac]

@yajnadevam Hallur (Haveri district) and Komaranahalli (Vijayanagara district) are in Karnataka and Veerapuram (Kurnool district) is in Andhra.

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

In a landmark judgment on May 22, 2026, the Delhi High Court held Google liable for trademark infringement.

The case was between Hindware and Google. The court held that, by allowing competitors of Hindware to purchase the keyword “Hindware” (a trademarked name) through Google Ads, Google enabled trademark infringement. The court said that “Hindware” is not a generic English word but a specific brand trademark. By allowing competitors to place ads on that keyword, Google is enabling competitors to divert traffic that should have legitimately gone to Hindware.

This has been a big challenge for companies, both big and small. Even today, if you search for Zerodha, you will see search results from competitors. This has been happening for well over a decade.

Although it is hard to quantify, we have lost a lot of business to this. Think about what happens. Whenever someone searches for "Zerodha", the traffic should rightfully come to Zerodha. But what often happens is that the first couple of results on Google Search are ads, leading the customer to a competitor's website. In the process, we lose business that should have come to us.

This is made worse by the fact that we do not advertise.

There is also an even more ironic thing here. A lot of brands, just to capture the traffic that should have come to them organically, end up bidding on their own keywords. Think about it. If you own a business and have a trademarked name for your business, you still have to pay Google just to hopefully make your name too expensive for your competition to run ads on it.

But now, thanks to the Delhi High Court judgment, we have the option of taking legal action whenever we come across instances of other companies squatting on our keyword.

The other brilliant part about this judgment is that it levels the playing field. And this matters even more for startups, who are already starved for resources and have the odds stacked against them. The last thing they need is for competitors to bid on their brand keywords and steal their traffic.

This judgment now opens up a route for legal recourse whenever such deceptive practices occur.

While keyword squatting is most visible in Google web results, it is an even bigger problem when it comes to app stores. Whenever someone searches for your brand, the first couple of results, both above and below your app listing, often tend to be those of your competitors. And in the case of app stores, I think the ads are even more problematic. When a user clicks on an app-store ad, they often end up installing an app. That is a much higher-commitment action than clicking on a competitor’s web search result and then just closing the page. Because the user has installed an application, the conversions, at least anecdotally, tend to be much higher.

Again, brands that do not advertise are at the receiving end of this. So I welcome this ruling and hope this changes the unfair norms we've been living by for so long.

[Aditya Rachakonda @arrac]

@greatbong I don’t read horror but I’ve read Shakchunni and The Bucket and enjoyed them both. The Shakchunni ending was a bit gut wrenching.

I love to read mystery (Kiego Higashino style) and magical realism (Rushdie) when it comes to fiction. But I generally read everything.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding?

A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating.

AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases.

We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy.

Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.

[Aditya Rachakonda @arrac]

@prakashadvani The issue is absolute non enforcement of civil law and order. We have massive penalties in our legal system for perpetrators but our system doesn’t penalise. That’s why there is recklessness in the way we treat public spaces. Decent behaviour is a by product of a lawful society.

[CNBC @CNBC]

Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."

[DHH @dhh]

I've been driving GPT5.5 on low reasoning for the last week+ and it's very good, very efficient. Haven't been tempted to reach for Opus at all. And it's more succinct than Kimi too. Huge leap forward for @OpenAI 👌

[Aditya Rachakonda @arrac]

Hot take: One of the biggest incidental advantages of coding agents is that you don’t have to write that new fangled type suggested abomination of Python —they do it for you if required.

For a person from a Perl background I feel like if I need type safety, I’d rather write in C++ or C or Go.

[Siddhartha Reddy @sids]

The enshittification of iconic logos continues.

[Trevor Blackwell @tlbtlbtlb]

It turns out that the right syntax for git commands is to tell Claude to deal with it.

[Nilesh Trivedi @nileshtrivedi]

Humanities jobs will survive AI. The joke is on STEM for making their theories and work verifiable. 😁 /s

[Aditya Rachakonda @arrac]

We have left the land of reading so long back that, text feels more like a design element and an aesthetic rather than something that needs to be read. Who the hell can read text like that, and why is that the most discussed aspect of pretext on X?

One thing that is critical in reading is that the text doesn’t move. That’s why we generally hate marquees and auto scrolls.

[Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer @poetengineer__]

woa this is so fun!