Joydip Datta

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[Joydip Datta @djoydip]

The no-nonsense over-simplified map of Bengaluru. "Capturing the essence of Bangalore, one ink stroke at a time. Celebrating #Inktober in Namma Bengaluru! 🖋️🏙️"

#Bengaluru #bangaloretraffic #Bangalore

#inktober2023 Day 5 ("MAP")

#inktober2023day5 #Inktober

[Besan ka Halwa @vikramgrawol]

Imtiaz Ali has again made a film that few people would watch, fewer would understand, even fewer would like and all of us would love after few years. Fantastic film though 💖

[scott 🌞 @scottdomes]

two frames we want to be able to shift between:

1) life is fun, joyful, an exercise in abundance. at the highest level, there are no real stakes, or none that we know with certainty. there is no objective "should", no punishment for living a bad life. you are free to be as you are. life is an infinite game

2) creating the life you want is an exercise in scarcity. there is limited time & energy, and the stakes are real: it is possible to get it wrong. there are things you should & should not do, when it comes to your concrete objective. life as a finite game

when we're caught up in #2, life feels very unpleasant. but when we choose to enter #2 from the broader frame of #1, it's like getting very involved in a game of tennis: we are very intense in our focus, we cry when we lose, we smash our racket on the ground... but then we walk away, and remember it's not the end of the world

too much of #1, on the other hand, feels ungrounded, directionless, dull. stakes are fun! creating something bounded is exciting! a refusal to take on real stakes is the puer aeternus archetype, and it leads to a drifting through life

engage with scarcity & risk, but remember what you are. that's the dance

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware.

Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.

Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky.

When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit.

We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted.

In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation.

H/T to colleagues that shared this with me https://t.co/f3Aj9TYxU4

[Chris Ing @jsci]

@eryney_ok Pitch for college starts to sound a lot edgier, "Come learn the banned forbidden knowledge of biology no frontier model wants you to know..."

[Joydip Datta @djoydip]

While doing design reviews we should avoid the trap of trying to "discover" the ideal design and then compare the proposed design with that.

That is how the ownership silently gets transferred without payback.

[Dark Pill @darkandcrude]

To save money they don’t have kids, don’t buy home & cars. Don’t travel

& when they reach 40 they realise that savings are peanuts adjusted to inflation

By then it’s too late to do anything

Contrarily, no rich man has ever retired early or not bought properties

Think about it

[Grant Lannin @retirementkeys]

At root of almost all of your social skill issues is belief you're burdening people. Self-image problem

If you just give 0 fucks and have fun with it, everyone loves that energy. And if they don't they are grumpy & lost. Key is u genuinely gotta not give a fuck, not pretend to not give a fuck (because if ur pretending, u still WANT a result, and that neediness will show)

Can train yourself to believe you're a blessing to any conversation because you bring fun & good vibes. You also bring permission for others to be themselves because you're yourself. And who wouldn't want that?

Then you genuinely cease to believe you're ever a burden. You believe you're genuine value, so why wouldn't you share it, at any moment

[Joydip Datta @djoydip]

If you allocate a trivial timebox for your activity, you will only get trivial results.

Fragmented time is the worst enemy of productivity. Consolidating the external engagements is the only way.

#productivity #meetings #office

[Dr. Devanshu Pandey @thenerdnxtdoor2]

Not taking your children on vacations, isolating them from their cousins because of your personal disputes, denying them the freedom to pursue a career they genuinely want, and turning them into instruments for your social validation these are forms of child abuse that rarely enter public discourse.
You see excuses, I see cPTSD

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Freud was wrong about most things, and he was wrong about this.

The "years of struggle" are never the "most beautiful."
Struggle sucks, it is hard & often painful.

Romanticizing struggle is something people who haven't really struggled do.

[Joydip Datta @djoydip]

The truth is, a rich family puts you in a spot where hard work comes naturally.

[Sahil @vedictrades]

The craziest cope which the lower middle class in India have about the rich kids is that they are not doing anything in life on their own.

Majority of my friends from school with a family net worth of 100cr+ enjoyed their 18-20s to the fullest.

Now they work to expand their family business. Absolutely killers and I’ve seen their work ethic go from absolute dogshit to hormozi level in the last 2 years.

Those who didn’t join the family business are now either working for a MNC pulling an insane salary and already planning on starting their own firm or they are disgustingly educated to the point of fulfilment.

The few who pursued their hobbies whether it be dancing, painting, or even squash are now living their best lives and are able to make good money off it.

Only a very small section of the kids ended up not doing anything in life, almost the same number of the lower & upper middle class.

The truth is, a rich family puts you in a spot where hard work comes naturally. There is of course a lot of financial support and a head start but at the same time it cannot be used to discredit the work they put in.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

We just spent the first 20 minutes of our all-hands meeting doing an icebreaker.

The prompt was to share a fun fact about ourselves that has nothing to do with work.

I despise fun facts.

My adult life is just a series of Outlook calendar invites and trying to decide what to thaw for dinner.

I don't have a fun fact.

The guy before me casually mentioned he reached base camp at Everest.

The woman after him rescues retired racing greyhounds.

When the spotlight finally hit my square on Zoom, my brain completely short-circuited.

I stared dead into the webcam and said I have double-jointed thumbs.

I do not have double-jointed thumbs.

The CEO immediately asked me to show the team.

I had to awkwardly bend my thumb backward until my knuckle physically popped.

Now I have a minor sprain and an ice pack on my hand.

I'm going to tell HR that mandatory team building is a worker's comp liability.

[Joydip Datta @djoydip]

My first 100% vibe-coded project.

In Typescript, and uses Bailey's API (https://t.co/7hniq2EbRU). I know 0% of either.

[Joydip Datta @djoydip]

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[Joydip Datta @djoydip]

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[Joydip Datta @djoydip]

Create breathable plans

[@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky @norootcause]

Nobody wants to read the output of someone else’s prompt

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The impossible crossover between Contra and Tetris

[🎞️ tercio_miranda]

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

Codex-5.3 is that mid-level engineer who finishes work on time but needs you to specify every edge case in jira or they short circuit.

Opus-4.6 is the staff engineer who 10xes revenue with killer features they invented but takes down prod every 5th Friday afternoon.

[John Crickett @johncrickett]

Software engineers: Context switching kills productivity.

Also software engineers: I'm now managing 19 AI agents and doing 1800 commits a day.

We’ve spent years complaining that managers who expect a quick 5-minute chat ruin our focus for the next hour. But a ping from an agent every few minutes, that’s ok?

We celebrated Paul Graham’s essay “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” in which he argued:

“When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in.”

Now we see software engineers claiming huge productivity gains from hordes of AI agents, celebrating thousands of commits per day from their 19 agents.

Either context switching was never really the problem, and we oversold our need for deep focus. Or we're not actually reviewing 1800 commits a day.

If we couldn't context switch before, we're not managing 19 agents. We're blindly trusting them.

That’s not engineering, it’s gambling.