Ayush Gupta

Senior Software Engineer @Atlassian | Distributed Systems | Businesses | Investing | Productivity | Vedanta

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

An incomplete list of starting points that I use for investigating issues in Prod to avoid going in circles during incidents.

Sticking to these points have helped me solve a ton a problems pretty fast!

https://t.co/51jIqdqa40

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

@SumitM_X I can't, still doing well I guess. Such questions are trivia, if I can get all my work done using just pull, why do I need to learn fetch?

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

@think_in_points Get approved LAS limit already, keeping that limit open requires 1-2k per year for 20L limit and you can use it as an overdraft account at anytime. Trying to get the account open at emergency time is gonna take time.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Most software engineers are facing an identity crisis bordering on depression.

As CTOs aggressively evangelize tokenmaxxing, a class divide ensues.

The lazy. The lazy push code. They don't write it. They don't manually test it. They don't even read it. They're on autopilot. See Jira ticket, prompt for task, submit code. Many of them are barely on their computer the whole day. A comment on the PR asking why they did this? The lazy ask AI. A Slack message? The lazy ask AI. Need to prepare for standup? The lazy ask AI. As long as it sounds enough like them and isn't detected. Some of the lazy are even overemployed, and work multiple jobs. The lazy smart ones get away with this, and even rewarded. After all, software engineering for the lazy is just a dance to convince your colleagues you're smart and hard working.

The craftsmen. The craftsmen are tired. Very tired. 15 PRs in queue. Slack blowing up. The entire burden of review falls on the craftsman. The burden of understanding. They try. They work their way through the code, thoughtfully commenting to improve what ships. The response? A lazy: "That's a clever idea! You're absolutely right." with an incorrect change. It's fine, the craftsman says. I can fix them. They write a doc urging his colleagues to be better. The next day? 20,000 line PR to review. Day after day, their workload grows. Bugs seep into production. No one seems to care. Another round of AI is thrown at it. Their animosity to their colleagues rises. Eventually, they give up. It's just not what it used to be. The craft they loved is dead. They eventually wake up, a lazy.

This isn't all companies. Many companies are genuinely more productive, adopt the right set of principles and practices around AI development and have highly talented teams that trust each other. It tends to happen in bigger companies that are 10+yrs old with a higher talent variance. But it happens. A lot.

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

@mainbhiengineer @jaideepparasha7 This is a misconception. I've written less than 10-15 blogs, and even with 2-3 years of experience, used to get direct reach outs from EMs citing my blogs. If you build a brand, it certainly does pay off. It makes you more credible than someone with no presence.

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

@mkobach I generally put [Scheduled] at the beginning of the message and schedule and forget.

This:
- Notifies them at correct time, and ensures it is read once they are back in work mode.
- Makes it clear I didn't send it right now, so it's not that urgent.

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

India is being systemically converted into a concrete desert.

[Dr Ranjan @DocRGM_]

It Was A Massacre In Nashik.

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

@Ajain112 Stepping out of the house feels like a war and you just hope you don't run into someone trying to loot you or fool you. That level of vigilance is not required in high trust societies. They function on trust.

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

@Ajain112 You are confusing sympathy with trust

Today, whenever you step out of the house, everywhere you go you're afraid you'll get scammed. Petrol pumps tricks, restaurants serving fake paneer, property deal scams, taxis asking for 2x after reaching destination, etc

Countless examples

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

@nush159 https://t.co/KSzyWenlpJ

https://t.co/CfSdgSWdiP

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

@nurijanian @tobi Ask it to figure that out as well I guess?

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

@SaniyaDhawan1 Need to be the biggest cheerleader as well as an honest critic when required.

That’s how you both grow together.

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

@whyjuriswhy Lesson to teach our kids: The amount of money you make is directly proportional to the value you create.

How hard you work doesn’t have anything to do with what you’ll earn. It used to be that way before the industrial age but not anymore.

[Bryan Cheong @bryancsk]

@nullpointered Hearing stories from friends in PE and VCs, and from my own family's legacy businesses, makes me realize how I'd get absolutely cooked if I weren't in plain vanilla skills-in-demand employment.

[Christian @homoveritas @christianvanck]

@MarioNawfal It’s not a coup it’s called a Russian election

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

@ntr0pie @arn4v Nothing wrong in this tho

[Priyanshu Ratnakar @0xratnakar]

my 2 cents after attending sam altman's session in IIITD👍

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

@ola_supports I’ve had a back and forth over 10 emails with your concerned teams. It’s a good business model tho. Charge a customer 3x and offer to refund 0.5x. Keep the difference, PROFIT!

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

And they are not even ready to look at the facts and screenshots i sent them that clearly shows it was an impossible ride for which i’m being charged.

@bhash @ola_supports

[Ayush Gupta @ayushgp]

There may be dozens more like me out their who think on similar lines that we can just let ₹300 go who will waste so much time. But that’s what these companies take advantage of.

Their grevience cell is useless. In app support is non existent.