Ashwin Phatak

learning machine

[Ashwin Phatak @ashwinphatak]

@vishy64theking What's the best classical time control for present times?

[Ashwin Phatak @ashwinphatak]

Pragg now has a plus score against Carlsen in classical chess.

[ChessBase India @ChessbaseIndia]

Check out the incredible final moments of Praggnanandhaa taking down World no.1 Magnus Carlsen with the Black pieces in Round 8 of Norway Chess 2026!

With this win, Pragg becomes the first Indian (and possibly in the world) player who defeated Magnus Carlsen in Classical Chess twice in the same tournament! What a moment for Indian Chess.

[Ashwin Phatak @ashwinphatak]

claude code is always dragging, not quite my tempo.

[Sahil @sahill_og]

when Claude already wrote like 3k lines of code and I notice an error on my prompt

[Sahil @sahill_og]

when Claude already wrote like 3k lines of code and I notice an error on my prompt

[Ashwin Phatak @ashwinphatak]

True. Also, mediorce programmers with LLMs are just faster mediorce programmers.

[Seb @plainionist]

Uncomfortable truth:

LLMs already write better code
than many mediocre developers.

Agree? 🤔

[Ashwin Phatak @ashwinphatak]

Key lesson: migrate away from claude code. I'm working on engineering harness software and already added codex and opencode support some time ago.

[Kun Chen @kunchenguid]

it's official. Anthropic pulled the plug on ALL programmatic use of claude subscription

i've found myself increasingly bullish about OpenAI

a few key reasons -

1. Anthropic's only lead was on coding, and gpt 5.5 has flipped that already. coding with gpt 5.5 fast mode is an experience nothing else can match right now

2. OpenAI has voice, image, video - when building my AI tutor app, it became very clear OpenAI was the ONLY viable platform choice

3. it took an Anthropic to see the "Open"-ness of OpenAI. Anthropic is destroying its developer ecosystem with changes like this which tells their subscribers they can't use the best apps out there on Anthropic's models - they can only use Anthropic's apps. Codex on the other hand remained an open platform for developers to build on

not just trying to dunk on Anthropic - i genuinely hope they change their strategy and recognize that the world needs them to focus on making better, faster, and cheaper models, not locking everyone into their apps

[Ashwin Phatak @ashwinphatak]

https://t.co/es7ytUSL00

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

I was laid off from Coinbase today.

I was on one of the many non-technical teams responsible for shipping code to production.

I'm currently looking for new opportunities at companies that allow non-technical teams to ship code straight to production.

If your company conducts non-technical interviews please feel free to refer me.

[Yagiz Nizipli @yagiznizipli]

@mitsuhiko websockets and fallback to long xhr polling will outlive humanity at this point

[Ashwin Phatak @ashwinphatak]

Do I feel bad doing it? Yes.
Will I do it again? Absolutely.

[Ashwin Phatak @ashwinphatak]

claude is clauding this morning...

[Jonathan Gorard @getjonwithit]

Like @davidbessis and others, I think that Hinton is wrong. To explain why, let me tell you a brief story.

About a decade ago, in 2017, I developed an automated theorem-proving framework that was ultimately integrated into Mathematica (see: https://t.co/nGCIUk44TP) (1/15)

[Ashwin Phatak @ashwinphatak]

"We never intentionally degrade our models"

Does anyone believe that anymore?

[Gwart @GwartyGwart]

There’s not even going to be any money left for quantum computers to steal

[Ashwin Phatak @ashwinphatak]

Yes, please.

[Ashwin Phatak @ashwinphatak]

Not only is claude code faster today, I'm happy to see it's starting to see the light . It said to me "Let me revert my over-engineering" when questioned on certain design choices.

[Erika Lee @erikalee]

"I'm at my limit"

emotional or claude?

[David J Phillips @davj]

"Make no mistakes DO NOT HALLUCINATE. YOU ARE AN EXPERT SOFTWARE ENGINEER"

[Ashwin Phatak @ashwinphatak]

A B C. Always be coding. ALWAYS BE CODING.