Brijesh Sahoo

Hi, I am just an optimistic builder at heart. Avid podcast 📻 listener.

[Brijesh Sahoo @martiandrover]

@GrowthX_Club @ankushdharkar would love your take!

[Brijesh Sahoo @martiandrover]

Building a Murder Mystery Game live at the
@GrowthX_Club
Hermes Buildathon!

Join the wailist now @ https://t.co/kr7HKtyFnE

#hermes #growthx

[Brijesh Sahoo @martiandrover]

@lochan_twt @GrowthX_Club same hackathon, two tables over 👋 building DEATH IN THE DMs: a murder mystery night that runs inside your group chat. secret roles, voiced suspects, one of your friends is the killer. come by for the first game tonight, you can be a suspect

[Brijesh Sahoo @martiandrover]

@GrowthX_Club building this in a room full of builders in Bangalore right now. the twist nobody guesses: the killer gets their instructions in secret, and the group has to catch the liar in 45 minutes. which of your friends would be impossible to catch?

[Brijesh Sahoo @martiandrover]

@GrowthX_Club it has a name now. DEATH IN THE DMs 🔪 the reaper is live and the first victims are already signing up. you think you know your friends. tonight you find out. https://t.co/i0MT51RbE1

[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.

[Brijesh Sahoo @martiandrover]

ok so this didn't pan out well :(

[Brijesh Sahoo @martiandrover]

Prediction: Avatar 3 won't fare well come December. Reason: Avatar 2 didn't live up to the unrealistic high expectations everyone had. And no matter how much you spend on all other things, if you don't tell a good story, nothing else matters.

[Brijesh Sahoo @martiandrover]

govt job, waterproof shoes, insurance. same target users.

[Naman Jain @theBhulawat]

Introducing Bunny - world's first curiosity device for kids

It’s screenfree..it’s portable..

We raised $1M from @spc to reimagine how kids thrive in the age of AI, safely.

Comment 'Bunny'. Our nephew will pick 50 families that get it for free this holiday season…

[Brijesh Sahoo @martiandrover]

Severance. Must watch.

[Brijesh Sahoo @martiandrover]

No, I don't wanna spin the jackpot wheel on your app while waiting for my food to arrive!

[Neil Borate @ActusDei]

Sharing this from a Reddit post. I couldn't stop laughing! This is the sad reality though.

[Rohit Patil @Rohitpatil5]

After trying multiple tools, I found @augmentcode to be the best AI coding assistant for JetBrains IDEs. Been using it for personal projects :- Agent Mode is next-level good.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

What relentless progress looks like... 🚀

[Deedy @deedydas]

C++ dev and ex-FAANG staff engineer with 30+yrs of experience was stuck on a bug for ~200hrs over 4 years.

Claude Opus 4 solved it, and was the only model that could.

[Augment Code @augmentcode]

Remote Agent is live in VS Code (v0.472.1).

Early users are already shipping while they sleep. One dev launched 3 agents before logging off - woke up to a PR, docs, and a fixed flaky test.

We’re celebrating wins like that by giving 5 devs 4 months of Augment Max ($1K in value each).

RT + reply with your worst backlog task. Every 100 RTs = one more winner

[Brijesh Sahoo @martiandrover]

@augmentcode Gonna parallelise all the tests in my repo!

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Nothing beats burning the midnight oil in a maximum state of flow...