Kovid Rathee

Head of Solutions Architecture @Nexifi. I write about technology, Indian classical music, literature, and the workplace, among other things.

[Kovid Rathee @Kovid_R]

@snowmaker Replace LLM with human, and the statement still mostly holds.

[Kovid Rathee @Kovid_R]

@jack Looks very cool!

[Kovid Rathee @Kovid_R]

@jatinkrmalik Same in my city. The council sent repeated surveys about where the residents wanted a new tram stop, what our views were about preserving an old building, among other things. Refreshing to see things work as they are supposed to.

[Kovid Rathee @Kovid_R]

@dhh p

[Kovid Rathee @Kovid_R]

@DataChaz Mate, I was planning to build this tool myself. You just saved me millions of tokens. Thanks!

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

It’s an honor just to be nominated

[Ben Lang @benln]

I often re-read @natfriedman's personal website (former Github CEO)

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it.

It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built wrong in all the ways.

Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course they're excited about building bespoke software — that's what they do. X is full of them. Your feed is full of people who love making software talking about making software. Of course they’re excited about the revolution. Echo, echo, echo...

Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all.

So when someone suggests that AI means everyone will build their own custom tools, ask who "everyone" is. The three-person accounting firm drowning in client paperwork? They want the paperwork gone, not a new system to maintain. The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with. The law firm billing 70-hour weeks? They want leverage on their time, not a software project to design.

They don’t hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn’t their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it’s become. It's another job on top of the job.

Will these people use AI? Absolutely, for all sorts of things. Will some outliers go deep and build real custom systems? Sure, but they're almost always people who already had some pull toward software. The curiosity was already there. They were dabblers before.

Giving everyone access to software building tools doesn't mean everyone becomes a builder. A powerful excavator doesn't turn a homeowner into a contractor. Most people just want the hole dug by someone else. They don’t want the responsibility either.

[Blink.new @blinkdotnew]

Introducing Blink Claw - the first platform to hire unlimited AI employees that run your business 24/7.

180+ AI models included. Gmail, Slack, LinkedIn, HubSpot - one-click connect. No API keys, no $600 Mac Mini.

Reply "Claw" + RT. Your first agent is on us. ($50 - 200 creds)

[Kovid Rathee @Kovid_R]

@blinkdotnew Claw.

[Paul Bakaus @pbakaus]

Introducing Radiant: 80+ production-ready shaders and visual effects for the web. 0 dependencies, MIT license.

- multiple color themes
- ultra-realistic simulations
- webgl and 2d canvas

Pick one, copy source, integrate, ship.

https://t.co/oLfGSIbwLT

[Kovid Rathee @Kovid_R]

@pbakaus This is so good!!!!

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

Books can make you smarter, but they can also make you stupider

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

All these smartasses think it’s vibe coding

I made Posterous (one of the biggest Rails sites in the world at the time) and Bookface (a social network used by half of YC alums daily)

If you can fly, you fly to where you were and go from there

Vibe code haters, I eat your hate for breakfast

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

I'm giving up drinking because of Claude Code.

I need my brain to be maximally pristine so I can sling 10k LOC a day

[HSVSphere @HSVSphere]

"Shipping a button" (vid by @KaiLentit). Might be the funniest thing I've seen in years

[Kovid Rathee @Kovid_R]

@mntruell @snowmaker Just signed up. Looks like this has all the good things of a browser IDE, the terminal, an OpenClaw-type Slack connector, and a highly agentic agent.

[Kovid Rathee @Kovid_R]

@andrewchen So good to see that most of these projects are related books, texts, summaries, essays, aphorisms.

[Kovid Rathee @Kovid_R]

@devlooskie Very cool!

[David Hill @iamdavidhill]

if you think coding is difficult, wait until you try design