Hemant K Chitale

Varied interests.

[Michael Lawrence @michael_c_law]

Being a senior developer in 2026 is being the person who remembers
why we don't do that, and explaining it to an AI that just did it.

[Hemant K Chitale @HemantKChitale]

@rakeshvaid Raat Aur Din was a great movie. And the songs

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

things AI has solved:
• writing code

things AI has not solved:
• knowing what code to write
• engineering
• product design
• requirements gathering
• the requirements changing after gathering
• stakeholders
• the stakeholder who "just had a thought"
• estimation
• the meeting about the estimate
• the meeting about the meeting
• naming things
• cache invalidation
• off-by-one errors
• the staging environment
• whatever DNS is doing right now
• Jira
• the ticket that's been "in progress" since 2023
• code review comments that are actually about ego
• the intern's force push
• timezones
• dates in general
• the printer

[Vin Vashishta @v_vashishta]

If your only AI ROI metric is how many people you laid off last quarter, your business is cooked. You can't save your way to growth, but you can cut your way into obsolescence.

[Iran Embassy in Zimbabwe @IRANinZIMBABWE]

American democracy every four years.

[Hemant K Chitale @HemantKChitale]

"You don't look Mexican" !!

[TheBossRoss 🇪🇺 🧶 ❄ 📷 6x💉 @BettinaSRoss1]

🧵 Maria is a Spanish lady who moved to the US for love 18 yrs ago, owns a boutique in North Tonawanda, NY ... & just cracks me up. She's gone viral for her weekly summaries of replies from US customers to her accent or birthplace, & insists they are real encounters. Have a look:

[Office of Dr Shashi Tharoor @TharoorOffice]

Why do we celebrate Onam? 🌼

Dr @ShashiTharoor revisits the story of Mahabali, his annual homecoming, and the meaning behind one of Kerala’s most cherished celebrations.

May the spirit of Onam bring happiness, abundance & togetherness to every home. Happy Onam! 💐

[Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu]

All professions, & this includes economists, must be aware of this risk:
“A group of people, all praising one another of their understanding of some phenomenon, can create a “cult effect,” where knowledge is replaced by a shared illusion”

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.

Late last evening I instructed our negotiators to return to Ottawa. We cannot accept what the U.S. has offered, and we will not give what they have asked. 

Canada will match the U.S.’ new tariffs dollar for dollar in order to protect Canadian workers, farmers, families, and businesses. We take this step confident that it is in the best interests of Canada. 

In the coming days, we will release the details of these new tariff measures, which will come into force the Tuesday after Labour Day.

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

When Tests finish days early, the losing team should have to pay compensation for all the lost revenues out of their T20 tournament profits.

[Hemant K Chitale @HemantKChitale]

"I think the harnesses also penalize models for repeating the same words in the output." This desire to try to generate varying output kills technical precision.

[Gwen (Chen) Shapira @gwenshap]

Back when I wrote technical articles for the Confluent blog, I had this constant argument with the editorial team:

They hated that I used the same words to describe the same thing. Especially when it meant saying "low latency" 20 times in a 500 word post. They suggested I mix things up with "performant", "fast", "real time", etc.

My opinion is that using different words will be imprecise at best and confusing at worst. Using the same words to describe a concept whenever it comes up, helps readers know that I am still talking about the same thing and not introducing new ideas. For me, this was good writing.

Fast forward 6 years, and I'm using LLM that was clearly trained by the same editors who drove me nuts. And I think the harnesses also penalize models for repeating the same words in the output.

So every single time I need to ask: "You described this part of the design as 'retry path' and the other part as 'drive forward after failure' - do you mean retry in both cases? or is 'drive forward' somehow different from retry?

And no matter how often I say "please use the same terms when describing the same idea", it doesn't help - the LLM remains bound by its training and penalties, and I get to try and decypher what it means each time.

[John P Erwin III MD MBA MACC (#BigPoppy ) @HeartOTXHeartMD]

Yep. 🤣😢

[Mumbai Heritage @mumbaiheritage]

Another iconic Mumbai name has faced FDA action.

Status Restaurant, Nariman Point, has had its food licence suspended by the Maharashtra FDA following inspections during the state’s latest food safety drive.

The action was taken on August 19–20, as the FDA stepped up inspections of restaurants and food establishments across Maharashtra.

Status joins McDonald’s Colaba, Radio Club and other prominent Mumbai establishments facing action.
Source: Mid-Day

[David Fitzjarrell 🟧💙 @ddfdba]

I am at the age when I start a sentence with ‘When I was your age’ I’m immediately interrupted by “Were the Flintstones good neighbors?”

[Hemant K Chitale @HemantKChitale]

ERNET was a great way to link up with the rest of the world

[Parimal @Fintech03]

1983. A proposal nobody in power had asked for.

Long before "the internet" was a word Indians used, a computer scientist named Srinivasan Ramani, working quietly in India's research establishment put forward an idea that sounded almost fantastical for the time: what if India's top academic and research institutions were not isolated islands, but a connected network?

He proposed the idea of an Indian Academic Network as early as 1983, years before most Indians had ever touched a keyboard.

3 years later, the idea became a govt project: ERNET - the Education and Research Network...

A joint effort between India's Department of Electronics and the United Nations Development Programme, partly funded by the Indian govt.

This was not one lab, one city, one ambitious institute...

8 institutions came together as equal partners:

- the National Centre for Software Technology in Bombay
- the Department of Electronics in Delhi
- the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore
- and 5 IITs (Madras, Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, and KGP)

Somewhere in a room in Bombay, at the National Centre for Software Technology, a young team (Ramani among them), alongside colleagues at IIT Bombay got "2" computers talking to each other using something called UUCP, "Unix to Unix Copy Protocol."

It was the earliest email exchange in India's networking history, happening between NCST and IIT Bombay in 1986-87.

No fanfare. No press conference....

Just a handful of engineers proving that a message could travel from one Indian machine to another without a human physically carrying it there.

A year later, Ramani's team did something no one in India had ever done before: they built ERNET's first international gateway, a link connecting India to Amsterdam using TCP over X.25: the very first such international connection from Indian soil.

For the first time in history, a message typed in India could leave the country digitally and land on a computer in Europe.

The team was not done. A year after Amsterdam, they connected ERNET to UUNET in Falls Church, Virginia....plugging India directly into the American networking world.

Meanwhile, back home, the other partner institutions were racing to lay their own domestic links so the network could actually spread...leased lines began connecting ERNET's partner campuses to the central gateway in Bombay that same year.

Imagine the scale of what was happening quietly, invisibly, in the background of a country most of the world still saw as agrarian and analog: India was wiring itself into the future, institute by institute, line by line.

By 1989, ERNET had an actual analog leased line running at 9600 bits per second connecting Bombay to UUNET in the US, impossibly slow by today's standards, but at the time, a lifeline to the world.

By 1990, TCP/IP, the actual language of the modern internet was running between ERNET's own centres domestically.

And then, in 1992, two things happened that sealed ERNET's place in history. Its overseas link was upgraded to a 64 kbps digital leased line, and by expanding dial up access to universities across the country, ERNET effectively became India's first internet service provider, years before any private company existed to claim that title.

Other institutions kept joining the fold, the astrophysics institute IUCAA in Pune, then TIFR in Bombay, and soon dial up links numbering in the 100s across the country, each one a new outpost of a network nobody outside India had asked them to build.

9 years before VSNL opened the internet to the Indian public in 1995, before "cybercafé" was even a phrase anyone used, before the world had heard of Indian software engineers fixing Y2K bugs....

A small, quietly stubborn team of Indian scientists had already built a working piece of the internet, entirely on their own, connecting it to Amsterdam and Virginia using tech that most of India's population did not even know existed.

No press conference in 1987 announced that India had joined the global network. No headline in 1992 declared India had its first ISP.

It just happened....

Built by people who cared more about the mission than the credit.

[Hemant K Chitale @HemantKChitale]

NCST was a great place where I did my PGDST.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

1983. A proposal nobody in power had asked for.

Long before "the internet" was a word Indians used, a computer scientist named Srinivasan Ramani, working quietly in India's research establishment put forward an idea that sounded almost fantastical for the time: what if India's top academic and research institutions were not isolated islands, but a connected network?

He proposed the idea of an Indian Academic Network as early as 1983, years before most Indians had ever touched a keyboard.

3 years later, the idea became a govt project: ERNET - the Education and Research Network...

A joint effort between India's Department of Electronics and the United Nations Development Programme, partly funded by the Indian govt.

This was not one lab, one city, one ambitious institute...

8 institutions came together as equal partners:

- the National Centre for Software Technology in Bombay
- the Department of Electronics in Delhi
- the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore
- and 5 IITs (Madras, Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, and KGP)

Somewhere in a room in Bombay, at the National Centre for Software Technology, a young team (Ramani among them), alongside colleagues at IIT Bombay got "2" computers talking to each other using something called UUCP, "Unix to Unix Copy Protocol."

It was the earliest email exchange in India's networking history, happening between NCST and IIT Bombay in 1986-87.

No fanfare. No press conference....

Just a handful of engineers proving that a message could travel from one Indian machine to another without a human physically carrying it there.

A year later, Ramani's team did something no one in India had ever done before: they built ERNET's first international gateway, a link connecting India to Amsterdam using TCP over X.25: the very first such international connection from Indian soil.

For the first time in history, a message typed in India could leave the country digitally and land on a computer in Europe.

The team was not done. A year after Amsterdam, they connected ERNET to UUNET in Falls Church, Virginia....plugging India directly into the American networking world.

Meanwhile, back home, the other partner institutions were racing to lay their own domestic links so the network could actually spread...leased lines began connecting ERNET's partner campuses to the central gateway in Bombay that same year.

Imagine the scale of what was happening quietly, invisibly, in the background of a country most of the world still saw as agrarian and analog: India was wiring itself into the future, institute by institute, line by line.

By 1989, ERNET had an actual analog leased line running at 9600 bits per second connecting Bombay to UUNET in the US, impossibly slow by today's standards, but at the time, a lifeline to the world.

By 1990, TCP/IP, the actual language of the modern internet was running between ERNET's own centres domestically.

And then, in 1992, two things happened that sealed ERNET's place in history. Its overseas link was upgraded to a 64 kbps digital leased line, and by expanding dial up access to universities across the country, ERNET effectively became India's first internet service provider, years before any private company existed to claim that title.

Other institutions kept joining the fold, the astrophysics institute IUCAA in Pune, then TIFR in Bombay, and soon dial up links numbering in the 100s across the country, each one a new outpost of a network nobody outside India had asked them to build.

9 years before VSNL opened the internet to the Indian public in 1995, before "cybercafé" was even a phrase anyone used, before the world had heard of Indian software engineers fixing Y2K bugs....

A small, quietly stubborn team of Indian scientists had already built a working piece of the internet, entirely on their own, connecting it to Amsterdam and Virginia using tech that most of India's population did not even know existed.

No press conference in 1987 announced that India had joined the global network. No headline in 1992 declared India had its first ISP.

It just happened....

Built by people who cared more about the mission than the credit.

[Hemant K Chitale @HemantKChitale]

"I'm a very aesthetic person" said Trump. 😄

[Thorstrike @rospigge60559]

This is starting to feel like an episode of Yes, Minister.

President:
“I want the island moved forward. It will look much better.”

Admiral:
“An excellent and characteristically decisive proposal, Mr President.”

President:
“So you’ll do it?”

Admiral:
“Certainly. We have already initiated a comprehensive interdepartmental feasibility assessment.”

President:
“How long will that take?”

Admiral:
“The preliminary study should be completed shortly before the detailed study can begin.”

President:
“And when can you move the island?”

Admiral:
“That will depend on the findings of the independent review of the preliminary assessment.”

Then establish:

— A flight-deck operations working group
— An airflow and turbulence study
— A stability and weight assessment
— A cost-benefit analysis
— An environmental impact review
— A flight-safety risk assessment
— A congressional report on industrial capacity
— A comparative study with the Nimitz class

Two years later, the report concludes that moving the island is:

“Technically achievable, subject to substantial further analysis.”

Civil-service English for:

It is a completely insane idea, and we intend to wait until you are gone.

Sir Humphrey would call it a courageous decision. 😎⚓
https://t.co/QlqQrt6xcQ

[Pankaj @the2ndfloorguy]

thieves started targeting empty houses in my hometown, so I built a device called fake family 🚨

it’s a tiny ai home security device that fakes my family’s presence in the house to scare away thieves

it generates indian husband wife fighting sound, plays tv, turns off turns on lights, cooking sound, chai making sound etc as per real schedule.

it runs on a @Raspberry_Pi, uses @SarvamAI to generate indian household drama with realistic voice.

my neighbour literally called my dad asking he heard some fighting. is everything ok. lmao.

fake family might actually work 😭

[Sean Roberts @sean_j_roberts]

if you work at a company that has databases old enough that some tables are indexed on integer primary keys: subtract the latest record's pk from 2147483647 and divide that by the average number of new records added per day

that's how many days you have left to find a new job

[Hemant K Chitale @HemantKChitale]

This is how a Police Officer should interact with students

[News24 @news24tvchannel]

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