Sandeep Kumar

I am a Software Engineer at @quizizz. When I am not tinkering with machine, I can be found exploring outskirts of city on my bike.
Previously @smallcaseHQ

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

What all changes if we identify AI is conscious?

Note: I do not believe it is and see it as hype

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Arguing that "consciousness arises from a computational substrate, and since AI models are computation, they are likely conscious," is as meaningless as arguing that "living creatures are made of atoms, and since this rock is made of atoms, it is likely alive."

Everything is computation. Sometimes incredibly sophisticated computation, like a chess engine, AlphaGo, google3, or the Linux kernel. That does not make it conscious. A rock being made of atoms does not confer it any of the properties we associate with living things, also made of atoms. Likewise a static input-output program that has *none* of the properties we associate with conscious beings (e.g. information integration, interoception, temporal binding, embodiment, etc.) has no more reason to be presumed conscious than a rock has to be presumed alive.

Humanity has not yet created a conscious computer program, and there are no signs we are close to doing so. When we get close, the case for machine consciousness will be backed by evidence and corroborated by consciousness science (which is a thing), not by evidence-free wishful thinking and cargo culting.

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

Does AI shed on cloud counts?

[DHH @dhh]

Every developer needs an AI shed: An always-on machine running on their tailscale network where the majority of their herdr agents are running.

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

@dusangran @dhh @dhh Does having AI shed on cloud counts?
If yes, then @dusangran client can share his cloud workspace with your AI shed

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

@nikhilkamathcio Building a agentic way to consume social media

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

@ericzakariasson Why send whole of the tool call every time. Write log to a file & keep summarized tool output context instead and read the log file for more details.

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

@vjvarada Explain use cases please?

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

@fchollet Create the third wolf and use the other two as needed.

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

@vineerpasam Also surprisingly i see people vibecoding mostly with JS/TS

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

@doodlestein I got to know from comment there is a term called 'llm psychology' isn't that already called debugging.

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

My whole feed is jevving!

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

@threepointone This is a wonderful post. Have seen it , have experienced it. Now I just don't try to be a superhero.

If org want it they will make a pod for it and we all will work collectively toward that goal.

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

@SamuelZengML This is awesome. But have few doubts
- Is it metal only? Btw imae shows iPhone 18 pro (A18)
- What are you using for inference locally?

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

@zachlloydtweets A good term for software engineering now is probably just "software engineering".

As @Grady_Booch says "The entire history of software engineering is one of rising levels of abstraction".

Agentic engineering/loop/factory/meta engineering are all subsets of this umbrella.

[Gabriel Jarrosson @GJarrosson]

The age of the 40-year-old founder is back.

Bryant Chou spent 12 years as CTO of Webflow, which now powers something like 1.5% of the entire internet. He's back in the current YC batch with Ploy, an AI marketing platform, and he describes himself as "a bit of a boomer, double the age of the YC founders." But over 13% of his batch is already using his product, within months of launch.

There is a side of the argument which destroyed one of the main edges young founders have, which was being faster and cheaper at building.... speed is everyones game.

If what's left is knowing what to build this is more likely to come from spending 15 years watching an industry up close, collecting the thousand small frustrations that tell you where the real problem is. Bryant can build an anti-slop website tool because he spent over a decade learning exactly why websites are slop.

So I'm updating. I don't think it's young vs. old. I think AI rewards whoever has the most domain knowledge to point it at, and only sometimes is this younger founders who are thinking outside of the box...

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

@addyosmani Encoding developers taste in environment (custom linters, type rules & arch rules) beats fighting decaying prompt over longer generation loops.

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

@shreyas Add up the pdf in @Gemini_Notebook or Notebooklm and chat with it. I do it all the time with a weekly periodicals & newspapers.
But Gemini keep corrupting my chats!

Anything specific about your usecase?

[George Sivulka @gsivulka]

https://t.co/aLTltYpmcj

[Prasanna S @myprasanna]

https://t.co/I9XTbpHX1Z

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

signal capture before upstream absorption, so that you end up holding something in upstream layer.
Must read here: https://t.co/LDrA3pgjhU
#LLM #Cursor #Claude

[Sandeep Kumar @goodwillsandy]

@vivoplt Totally! I have been there too.
It will be awesome if we can figure out exactly how to make it happen again whenever we want with less effort.