Kishore T

🌌 Introverted | 🖥️ Tech Nerd
🎮 RPGs, Nostalgic N64 vibes | 📺 Anime fan
🍃 Peaceful vibes, meaningful chats, low-key fun

[Prasad @theprasad_]

Netherlands is the reason we are able to use AI.

Not the U.S., Not China. Not even Nvidia.

One Dutch company controls the machines that create every AI chip on Earth.

Here's how this one company created a monopoly no one can break:

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

If our notion of self-worth comes from the economic value we add, or if it comes our intellectual pretense (*cough*), AI may pose a serious challenge to our self-worth.

On the other hand no one takes up activities like taking care of children, teaching children, taking care of the elderly, coming back to farming leaving a well paying job, going into the forest as rangers because they love the forest, local temple priests who do the daily rituals even when no one shows up at the temple, classical musicians who practise daily and perform for even very small crowds - none of them do it because those activities pay well.

They will be unaffected by AI. Humanity may organize itself more towards such activity.

[Kishore T @darkdev_kishore]

Software is written by organizations, not mathematicians. Incentives favor shipping over correctness.

[Mayank Vora @aiwithmayank]

OpenAI and Anthropic engineers leaked a prompting technique that separates beginners from experts.

It's called "Socratic prompting" and it's insanely simple.

Instead of telling the AI what to do, you ask it questions.

My output quality: 6.2/10 → 9.1/10

Here's how it works:

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

A year ago, I became our Chief Scientist. My R&D team and I have been working hard to reinvent ourselves. We have made very good progress but we still have more work to do.

With recent developments on the AI front, the task has become much more urgent.

I will have to decline all other priorities outside of this work. In particular, I cannot travel for various events. I apologise in advance🙏

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Examples are now pouring in about AI-assisted Code Engineering productivity.

The quoted post is a Bhagwad Gita app.

Anthropic has built an entire C compiler with their Claude AI. That is not an easy engineering feat at all.

At this point, it is best for those of us who depend on writing code for a living to start considering alternative livelihoods. I include myself in this. I don't say this in panic, but with calm acceptance and embrace.

As a matter of fact, I did a detailed session with Gemini Pro on how the economy will be shaped by the AI revolution. It was like having an extremely intelligent economic philosopher debating you. I asked it to critique its own work and it did a fantastic job too.

As Gemini and I developed see this, the future could unfold in two ways, depending on who owns and collects rent on this technology.

The optimist in me thinks that this technology will make most technological prowess by humans redundant and that would push tech to the background (all tech become trivial, like digital watches today) and we then get to focus on life, family, soil, water, nature, art, music, culture, sports, festivals and faith (faith is important), and that is best done in small close-knit rural communities. I live a life like this today and if we solve rural poverty, I consider this a very good life.

The pessimistic dystopian vision is centralized control.

Here is my Gemini chat session on this. You can continue the session on Gemini and see where it all goes.

https://t.co/ORdh7ejen4

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Tests measure test taking skills. Interviews measure interviewing skills.

Beyond a basic competence threshold, tests and interviews don't correlate too well with exceptional performance in the real world.

[Jasveer Singh @jasveer10]

Why so many global CEOs are Indian is the wrong question. The real question is what kind of system produces them.

This isn’t about Indians being genetically smarter or IITs magically creating genius. It’s only about selection pressure. India is not a talent factory. India is a high-pressure talent filter.

Most Indians are born into middle class or lower middle class families. There is no safety net, no fallback plan, no cushion. From the day you’re born there is an unspoken contract. Do well or the whole family stays stuck.

Education isn’t optional. It’s survival, now add population. Five to ten lakh people fighting for a few thousand seats. Even after years of preparation, effort doesn’t guarantee success. You still have to win against insane odds.

What comes out of this system is not creativity. It’s endurance. People who can sit for long hours, delay gratification for a decade, operate under pressure without breaking, and don’t feel entitled to comfort.

That profile matters - Large global companies don’t reward raw brilliance at the top. They reward people who can survive complexity, politics, scale, and boredom for 20 to 30 years straight.

That’s why Indian origin leaders show up disproportionately in operator roles. CEOs, presidents, heads of massive systems, not founders.

They didn’t rise because they were the loudest or flashiest. They rose because they had already been trained by a brutal system that rewards consistency over brilliance.

Compare that to a child born in a developed country. There is pressure, yes. But there is also a safety net. More options. Less existential fear. That environment is great for creativity and risk taking. It produces founders and innovators.

India produces survivors who become operators. That’s the difference most people miss. And let’s be clear, this system is not something to romanticize.

For every one person who makes it, millions burn out. Talent gets wasted. Mental health gets crushed. The system is inefficient and cruel. But it does one thing extremely well. It filters for people who can endure.

That’s why Indians don’t dominate early stage innovation globally, but they dominate long-run leadership in established systems.

So no, Indians aren’t exceptional because of IQ. They’re exceptional because they were never allowed to be comfortable.

The uncomfortable question is not why this works. The real question is whether this is the only way we should be producing leaders. And whether the cost is worth it.

[Kishore T @darkdev_kishore]

@TechByTaraa Obviously it's staying consistent.

[Josh Long @starbuxman]

I love the @Java JVM ecosystem. It’s trivial to build something.

Step 0: install Java using https://t.co/SksFXqXYLB: sdk install java 25-graalce && sdk default java 25-graalce

Step 1: install a Java IDE like IntelliJ IDEA or VSCode. If u use Homebrew: brew —cask install jetbrains-toolbox and then select IntelliJ IDEA or brew install --cask visual-studio-code

Step 2: hit https://t.co/XewXoyLhvG, choose Maven, Docker Compose, Redis, PostgresQL, Ollama, Spring Data JDBC, Web, Actuator, Security, Java 25, and hit Generate and then unzip and file > open the pom.xml from your IDE

Done.

You now have a new project fully setup with database(s), Docker, AI, an embedded web server, and observability.

Now it’s your turn. You’ve got a blank slate, validly configured, and ready for your ideas. it’s time to build. Have fun!

[Kishore T @darkdev_kishore]

Exams and degrees became cheap filters for the abundance of applicants — a lazy solution to a very real problem.

[Kishore T @darkdev_kishore]

"As we get older, we're trained to value outcomes, not experiences."

As a kid, I played the first level of Super Mario 64 every Sunday. Didn’t even know about save files. No progress. Just joy.

Now I feel like I need a reason to enjoy something.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

People do not compete in the "global marketplace", products do.

Take the Japanese - they still build great foundational technologies (cameras for instance) and the people who work on cameras are not "globally competitive" (they only speak Japanese and spent their entire lives in Japan). The products they build are on every cell phone.

[Johnny Brown @johnnyxbrown]

Struggling to lose weight?

Low energy, brain fog, mood swings?

It’s not just "aging" or "hormones."

It could be your thyroid—and most people don’t even know it’s underperforming.

Here’s how to fix it (without medication):

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

If you master continuous improvement and get 1% better each day at something for one year, you'll end up 37 times better by the time you're done.

[blue @bluewmist]

Best career advice that I can give: Don't ever attach yourself to a person, a place, a company, an organization or a project. Attach yourself to a mission, a calling, a purpose ONLY. That's how you keep your power & your peace. It's worked pretty well for me thus far.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Haha true

[Oscar Hoole @theoscarhoole]

The Bottleneck Rule:

Every week, find the BIGGEST problem holding your company back.

Then solve only that.

Nothing else matters.

It's like a factory line - fix what's slowing everything down first.

[Brother @brother__mind]

@bluewmist The best solutions in life, in basically all areas, are simple, not complicated, but simple,

What do you need to do to lose weight?

Consume less calories than your body uses,

That’s it, no need to go all fancy,

Just focus on this and you’ll actually see results.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The rationale behind the 70 hour work week is "it is necessary for economic development". If you look at East Asia - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China have all developed through extreme hard work, often imposing punitive levels of work on their own people.

These very countries also have such low birth rates now that their governments have to beg people to make babies.

Two questions arise: 1) is such hard work necessary for economic development? 2) is such a development even worth the price of a lonely old age for a large mass of people?

My response to the first question is that it is enough if only a small percentage of the population drive themselves hard. Please note the "drive themselves" - I am in that camp but I am not willing to prescribe this to anyone else. Some percentage of the population will drive themselves hard (may be 2-5%). I believe that is sufficient for broad based economic development, and the rest of us can have decent work life balance. I believe such a balance is needed.

On the second question, no it is not worth it. I don't want India to replicate China's economic success if the price is China's steep demographic decline (which has already started). India is already at replacement level fertility (southern states well below that already) and further declines to East Asian levels won't be good.

I do believe we can develop without needing to work ourselves to demographic suicide.