Niket Patel

CTO, Co-founder at Reveal. Building

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The economic and demographic effects of corruption.

Cost of land in our urban areas is far higher than what our GDP per capita would dictate. The ratio of land value to per capita GDP is probably higher in India than anywhere else. As an example, land prices in Chennai or Bengaluru rival that of cities like New York which has a vastly higher per capita GDP.

The key reason?

First, vast sums of political corruption money is parked in real estate. This raises real estate prices and high real estate prices affect everything downstream.

Second, corruption in building approvals and the like - the famous DTCP - raises construction costs, on top of already higher real estate costs.

Third, corruption in private school regulatory compliance enforcement raises school fees.

Fourth, corruption in private hospital regulatory compliance enforcement raises health care costs.

Fifth, household goods need sales outlets and those pay higher rents due to high real estate prices and construction costs.

So housing, education, healthcare and household goods - all of these now cost higher.

As a direct consequence, the economic burden on the average person gets worse. Young people, facing all these costs, postpone marriage, and postpone children or have fewer children.

That directly affects our demographics.

While this issue exists in many parts of India, Tamil Nadu, being the most urbanized of the bigger states, is particularly hit hard.

So corruption is becoming an existential threat to our society.

If you worry about the super-low birth rate in Tamil Nadu, way below replacement, understand that corruption raising our cost of living is one of the major causes, not the only cause, but a big one in our context.

[Hiroo Onoda @OnodaCapital]

god what a bleak chart

[Niket Patel @nexneo]

@nikunjness 🤣

[Mehul Mohan @mehulmpt]

That’s called remote code execution sir. Last I checked it was a vulnerability, not a feature

[Paul Graham @paulg]

You don't know how big a fish you are till you try a big pond.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Assemblers were faster at writing binary than humans were.

Compilers were faster at writing assembly than humans were.

AIs are faster at writing compiled languages then humans are.

Deal with it. There's still plenty left for you to do.

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[Niket Patel @nexneo]

@mattpocockuk @goodbyesahil most likely not a person

[MJ @mjackson]

You will never regret having a real thorough understanding of the code you produce, even if it's generated by an AI.

[Tyler @rezoundous]

Developers spent decades complaining about 'spaghetti code' and 'technical debt.'

Now we’ve built AI that generates 10,000 lines of it in seconds.

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

Complexity is a poison. There is a reason people still get drawn to TUIs in the year of 2026. Our predecessors expected we would have flying self-driving cars by now. Web is stalling civilizational progress.

[Andrea Montanari @Andrea__M]

The risk of AI for education is not students cheating in exams, it is people in general cheating themselves into believing they understand things they don’t.

[dharmesh @dharmesh]

I have only 30+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, but I too agree.

The only way to truly know whether an idea is good or bad is to test it.

Good news is that it's easier to test ideas now than it has ever been.

[kepano @kepano]

all your Obsidian files are now executables

[Niket Patel @nexneo]

@prisma https://t.co/iopsLogap4 - AI partner for qualitative research.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

AI makes senior architects more productive and reduces the need for junior engineers. The architect needs to understand the requirements as well as the technology stack well, to be able to guide the AI and fine tune its output.

But if we don't have junior engineers, we don't get to train the next generation of architects - after all how does someone become a software architect without being a junior engineer first?

I am still thinking through how this gets resolved.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The Transformer architecture is fundamentally a parallel processor of context, but reasoning is a sequential, iterative process.

To solve complex problems, a model needs a "scratchpad" not just in its output CoT, but in its internal state. A differentiable way to loop, branch, and backtrack until the model finds a solution that works.

[Niket Patel @nexneo]

@prisma @alexdeliadev Message: Error in Prisma Client request:
Invalid `STUDIO_EMBED_BUILD<"u"&&STUDIO_EMBED_BUILD?

I just used psql after that.

[Niket Patel @nexneo]

@prisma @alexdeliadev Mainly it was actually running. New one was broken few days back