Munish Thakur

[Dr SHRADDHEY KATIYAR @Wegiveyouhealt1]

An ISRO scientist can’t afford a 200 sq yards plot in a tier 2 city of India but a Patwari is owning multiple.

Then you cry begging jobs , visas, tech and latest guns from the west.

Because you deserve it.

[Jamon @jamonholmgren]

If you wouldn’t find any issues reviewing the code, is the AI really good at coding or are you not that good at coding?

[pash @pashmerepat]

Absolutely beautiful rant about AI in Linux Kernel from Linus yesterday:

I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area
where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level
maintainer.

Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues
with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

Or just walk away.

AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no
longer in question today.

There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will
actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of
those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used
it.

Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer
workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs"
standpoint.

But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La
La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem
to do.

The solution is to make sure those LLM tools _help_ maintainers
instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side.

We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore
people who try to argue against other people from using it.

And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the
problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at
themselves at the same time.

Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either.

The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and
often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a
side benefit, not the _point_ of the project.

This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been,
and never will be.

In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better
technology, not because of religious reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear
of new tools.

Linus

[Munish Thakur @munish710]

any other ai voice note hardware can’t top this

[akshay @AkshayNarisetti]

Introducing Pocket. Officially.

Take Notes in the Real World.

160,000 devices shipped later, we're just getting started.

[Munish Thakur @munish710]

rare indian gov w

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

🚨🚨Indian govt to invest Rs 200 crore in Ather Energy's Rs 2,500-crore fundraise alongside founders, Hero MotoCorp

The Government of India will invest Rs 200 crore in electric two-wheeler maker Ather Energy's proposed Rs 2,500-crore fundraise, according to company's BSE filings on July 15.

The investment will be made through the India-Japan Fund (IJF), a $600 million (around Rs 4,900 crore) bilateral fund set up by the Government of India and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).

by @BhavyaDKumar

https://t.co/hT5f4CmEKy

[Munish Thakur @munish710]

@shaedrizwan bhai KOO tha to 😂😭

[Munish Thakur @munish710]

bluesky, will be an interesting case study few years down the line what happens when smart people are caught in echo chambers. the dumb ones are already on truth social

[Munish Thakur @munish710]

@v_p5h nah, just a hypothesis, comparing is to X, where we have ppl from all the sides and iq ranges, since X doesn’t coddle up to any particular group.

[Maximilian @maxedapps]

And you thought having a new JS framework every month or so was annoying...

[Sam Altman @sama]

this would have been a whole startup not too long ago

[Munish Thakur @munish710]

@yagiznizipli @X tanstack doesn’t have marketing budget. Le Tanstack.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

If you've been in tech for some time, this should be obvious:

Every single "success story" about a rewrite/migration etc published on a company page is half-truth.

The positives will all be true!

But those posts will not share all or some key negatives (even ones people observed) "real" alternatives considered... and even if they did, they would not contain:

The Incentives + Dynamics

The internal, often unsaid incentives that help with faster career advancemement, the internal dynamics that are unique to a set of companies.

And without understanding all of these, if you copy this "success story" inside your team/company with different incentives and dynamics, you'll be disappointed.

[Munish Thakur @munish710]

panchayat s4 is pure ragebait.

[ujjawal @ujjawalasthana]

Long post alert: Fashion quick-com startups aren't shutting down because they are slow. AAMOF, no fashion company has ever died because they delivered late. Fashion companies die because -

1. They can't rotate styles fast enough
2. To catch up with 1, inventory piles up

The dark store model is designed to guarantee both these problems at peak - dark stores can't keep all the styles in all sizes - and if they try, inventory piles up.

The case for ordering adrak for your chai while water is boiling or an egg for your omelette while pan gets hot isn't the same as ordering a shirt for next big meeting.

I understand the urgent, impulsive need for a black t-shirt at 10pm or a kurta on holi evening - but think about it - in your lifetime, how many such situations happen.

90% of the time people buy clothes with thought. Just because a white tee shows up in 10 minutes doesn't mean the whole country starts wearing white tees.

Fashion by nature is choiceful. And choiceful shopping needs every size, every option, sitting in stock. You can't hold that catalogue in a 2-km dark store. So you either understock and lose the sale, or overstock and die on inventory working capital.

How it should ideally be - In any Indian city, point A to point B rarely crosses 2 (or 3) hours. Noida to Gurgaon. Hebbal to Bannerghatta.

The model that works - larger feeder warehouses on the outskirts with every style, every size stacked, and a smaller child warehouse near the central business area to deliver to all pincodes and get stock from the mother - this model compressed the time to 30mins to 2 hours.

Promise 2 hours for all deliveries - not even 30 minutes - serves the demand behaviour and the economics both.

JIT can't save you either. The moment you make styles just-in-time, you're not a marketplace, you're a brand. Different ballgame.

And notice the sequence everyone forgets - Myntra -> HRX, Swiggy -> Noice. Distribution first then private label, never the other way.

Quick-com in fashion is 100% possible. Just not in 10 minutes. Two hours, every style available, warehouses over dark stores. Every other model will break n demand or economics.

[Jamie Birch @birch_js]

Ask yourself why OpenAI, with all the resources in the world to develop a native app via LLMs, still ended up migrating their feature-complete native app to Electron.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

what the hell man
alien technology

[Mustafa @oprydai]

any sufficiently advanced engineering is indistinguishable from art

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I was clearly wrong about Anthropic. They are obviously currently the leader in AI. No company has released a model as good as Mythos/Fable and they will undoubtedly have Mythos 2 ready soon.

And I would never cut them off in a way that hurt them badly, even as a competitor. That’s not my style.

Tesla open sourced its patents and we made the Supercharger network available to all competitors, even though we could have made it a walled garden.

SpaceX launches competing satellite systems with no increase in price or use of unfair terms.

Even my worst enemies can attack me on this platform.

…

[spidey @lochan_twt]

"I'll just learn coding, get a remote job, and work from Bali."

[Munish Thakur @munish710]

have always thought this.

[David Hinkle @Drachs1978]

Leetcode is like chess. It's a high IQ coded activity but in fact it's all memorizing patterns. People don't win at chess because they out-think you, they win because they out pattern match you. Only at the highest level does some IQ come into it, Leetcode has no such level.