HARSHIT AGGARWAL

Software guy with passion for Finance. IIT Indore CS grad. Straight shooter. Wannabe Minimalist

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

If crimes could be ranked, this is among the worst possible. How coldly calculative and cruel one must be to do this? This is not a crime of passion or rage or whipped up hatred or even entrenched patriarchy. This is purely a crime of inhumanity.

And the amazing part is that this horrible, unimaginable crime is just a news footnote in our ‘greatest civilisation on the planet’. The systems will make sure this keeps happening because the bureaucracy-politician-capital-media nexus incentivises lack of morality.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.

Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes.

As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now.

It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

[The DeshBhakt 🇮🇳 Akash Banerjee @TheDeshBhakt]

Maturity is realising that we have been reduced to a nation of cockroaches - when citizens cannot be peacefully protest against Air Pollution!!
Even the Communist Chinese Govt listened to its people & cleaned up Beijing & surrounding areas in a big way.

[HARSHIT AGGARWAL @fintechmonk]

And it happens on Diwali holiday . Two minute silence for oncall software engineers across industries.

[RedboxGlobal India @REDBOXINDIA]

AWS SERVICES EXPERIENCING OUTAGES WORLDWIDE

[Ritesh Jain @riteshmjn]

Reserve Currency has been moving from one to other friendly (overall) western nation

Portuguese to Spain to Dutch to British and then to US

This would be first major shift with geography and power

So likely a big one

[Suraj Kumar Talreja @suritalreja]

EPFO now thinks your own money is a luxury.

You work for years. Every month, a part of your salary is forcefully deducted as PF, no choice, no say.

Earlier, if you weren’t employed for 2 months, you could withdraw your PF.

Now they’ve made it 12 months.

And pension withdrawal? 36 months.

So if you lose your job today, you can’t touch your own money for a year.

How is this fair?

You save because they force you to, and when you actually need it, they lock it away.

This isn’t reform.

It’s bureaucratic cruelty against employees.

[HARSHIT AGGARWAL @fintechmonk]

@IncomeTaxIndia wants every individual to fight case in CIT, ITAT to win what is clear by law and upheld in multiple courts. CPC wont change their software to allow it by default for FY24-25.
Loot in broad daylight. Case cost far exceeds 25k. @nsitharaman
https://t.co/2iEE5ZYjSi

[Contrarian EPS @contrarianEPS]

you failed but your friend passed because his father was the school principal

[HARSHIT AGGARWAL @fintechmonk]

#Pahalgam was the first place I visited with my wife 2 year ago. Can’t imagine being in such a situation. Such acts will essentially kill tourism & impact local economy for a very long time. Perpetrators should be brought to justice.

[HARSHIT AGGARWAL @fintechmonk]

Bus driver tried to save the absolutely stupid two wheeler and inadvertently caused more damage to entire bus. India cannot be saved. Get out if you can.

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

India has crores and crores of simpletons with zero civic sense. That’s the issue

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

India has crores and crores of simpletons with zero civic sense. That’s the issue

[HARSHIT AGGARWAL @fintechmonk]

Rare and frank discussion by a fund manager on valuations of Indian financial markets backed by fundamental insights on financials of firms, Govt. of India balance sheet and macros.

Extremely contrarian views, good to avoid a bull's confirmation bias.

https://t.co/TW8c12CSv7

[HARSHIT AGGARWAL @fintechmonk]

No understanding of rate of depreciation. Expect more nuance from @TheDeshBhakt ‘s researchers. Else there is no difference between him and other politicians. Rupee has been lot stable than in previous govt policy regime.

[The DeshBhakt 🇮🇳 Akash Banerjee @TheDeshBhakt]

Narendra Modi sees a deep political failure behind the fall of the rupee. 🤯🤯🤯

[HARSHIT AGGARWAL @fintechmonk]

Medical insurance premiums are skyrocketing every year. Cost of basic 5L floater policy for my parents.
* Sep 2021 : 33k
* Sep 2022: 38k
* Sep 2023: 47k
* Sep 2024: 64.7k
Medical inflation is way above 20%.
And in that 18% of Govt cut of GST on already taxed income :/

[Stable Investor @StableInvestor]

Inflation protection for govt employees. Nice. But please sir… allow us mortals to also have some inflation protection and return us our indexation benefits. We also experience inflation 🙏🏼

[HARSHIT AGGARWAL @fintechmonk]

The debt burden added will kill salaried white earning people even faster now. People will move further to black economy and high earners will migrate India at even faster pace.

[Rajesh Sawhney 🇮🇳 @rajeshsawhney]

We, the Indians, resolve to work harder to pay for pensions of Govt employees.

This burden will haunt our next generation.

[HARSHIT AGGARWAL @fintechmonk]

And we have just doled out $4Bn of taxpayers money and debt in central govt FY 24-25 budget to Bihar development aka corrupt Babu’s pockets. Probably 5-10% actually used for development, rest in corrupt pockets.

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

It took 3 crores to build this on paper.

Rest of the bridge is stuffed in the mattress of the executive engineer & his colleagues.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

An absolute travesty at the Olympics.

Angela Carini is forced to box against a biological male. She quits after just 45 seconds, and cries hysterically as her opponent is declared the winner.

Don't look away. This is wokeness.

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

It is high time that the government of India starts a Ministry called Ministry of Civic Sense.

The purpose of this Ministry should be: to coach adults on how to behave in public places.

[1] Do not ogle at women (like you've never seen one).
[2] Do not use your phone speaker (publicly).
[3] Do not dance in metro, like it is your bedroom.

This might look like a joke, but it is not.
This improves our standard of living considerably.

[HARSHIT AGGARWAL @fintechmonk]

@TheDeshBhakt While I really appreciate @TheDeshBhakt and am a big fan. I never really saw him pulling old shots extreme views of that AAP/Cong/SP with each other 🙂. Bias exist with everyone.