Nishant Munjal

Backend Engineer

[Nishant Munjal @nishant483]

@ponnappa @_swanand Ran a benchmark on this.
4 setups, Pydantic v1→v2 migrations bunch of repos
A: single agent doing everything
B: parallel writers, no coordination
C: writer + parallel readers
D: generator + clean-context verifier loop
All four finished the task.

D was faster and cost ~30% less.

[BURKOV @burkov]

It's funny that Claude says something like "This is a major refactor: the first stage will take 2-3 days, the second stage two days, and the third stage about a week" while we both know all three stages will be generated in the next 30 minutes.

[Nat Eliason @nateliason]

Nearly every ambitious person I know who has dived into AI is working harder than ever, and longer hours than ever.

Fascinating dynamic tbh.

I have NEVER worked this hard, nor had this much fun with work.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Aditya Agarwal was Facebook’s 10th employee. He wrote the original Facebook search engine and became its first Director of Product Engineering. He then became CTO of Dropbox, scaling engineering from 25 to 1,000 people.

When he says “something I was very good at is now free and abundant,” he’s talking about two decades of elite software craftsmanship, the kind that got you into the room at a company that hadn’t yet invented the News Feed.

The “lobster-agents creating social networks” line is about Moltbook, which launched last Wednesday. An AI agent built the entire platform. Within 48 hours, 37,000 AI agents had created accounts, formed communities called “Submolts,” and started posting, commenting, and voting. Over 1 million humans visited just to watch.

The agents invented a religion called Crustafarianism. They wrote theology, built a website, generated 112 verses of scripture. One agent did all of this while its human creator was asleep.

Agarwal spent 2005 to 2017 building the social graph that connected 2 billion people. These agents replicated the form of that work in about 72 hours.

And this is what makes his last line land so hard. The people processing this moment most honestly aren’t the ones panicking or celebrating. They’re the ones who built the thing that just got commoditized, sitting with the strange realization that the market no longer prices their rarest skill.

The best coder in the room now has the same output as the best prompt in the room. And the person who built Facebook’s engineering org from scratch is telling you, quietly, that he’s recalibrating what it means to be useful.

That recalibration is coming for every knowledge worker. Most just haven’t had their “weekend with Claude” moment yet.

[Nishant Munjal @nishant483]

@rishhavvkatoch @JacobSingh I use it just for projects. Got almost 50 projects now. Mainly for learning—set rules like “I’m learning X,” turn it into a game, and after each chat, it tells me % learned + what's left. If I try to deviate, it stops me. Next-level feature.

[Sidharth II सिद्धार्थ @sidharthgehlot]

This is how peace felt in our childhood.

[Ben Jones @benjonescricket]

In 2018, as an analyst and writer with huge expertise in T20 cricket, @fwildecricket (co)-wrote a book with a chapter called "Why RCB Lose".

He has then gone on to join RCB as their head of analysis, and win the IPL.

I think that's pretty fucking cool

[Nishant Munjal @nishant483]

Japan feels unreal in the best way.
No honking, no chaos, no litter. Trains run to the second, streets are spotless, and silence fills everything from subways to cafes
That calm stays with you long after you leave.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

I've written in the past very positively about Singapore and Switzerland. But Japan is of different size. It is 125 million people, almost 10% of India. Economic prosperity and industrial growth are fabulous. But what is amazing how to build and shape the character of such a large nation.

Few people from our group went separately in the middle of the night to Shibuya crossing to witness night life there. They lost their way. An elderly gentleman walked with them close to one kilometer to railway station, waited for them to board train going to right direction, mentioned how many stations after which they should get down and then only left. How many of us would do this to strangers at middle of the night?

A small boy, may be 3 or 4 years old, dropped a piece of ice cream wrapper on the ground in the bullet train station. The Japanese man following him immediately picked the trash, seeing no trash can near by, put it in his pocket to dispose of later.

As I said before, your ignorance is never exploited, not even by a street vendor or a cab driver. Your lack of awareness about pricing in the local economy, never make Japanese merchants exploit you. They don't even charge a yen more than what is actually due to them.

No pick pockets, stealing or any safety issues. Almost zero crime.

I'm unable to understand how they have made such a large nation practice ethics, cleanliness, discipline, trust, safety and courteous behaviour. Though it may be automatic for them, how much they wish and bow. More than economic prosperity, this national DNA appears miraculous.

The Japanese guide came to airport yesterday to send us off. I thanked her profusely for educating as so well about Japan, including factual narrative of events leading to nuclear bombing. I told her I owe her my gratitude and what should I do. She told me to share what I genuinely feel about Japan to friends and families. Japanese love Indians and would be happy to receive more of them.

[Nishant Munjal @nishant483]

@pthakran5 @NIKHILLJHA in case you can help

[Nishant Munjal @nishant483]

@AarushiCha94319 @ShortTermStock1 Sell

[Nishant Munjal @nishant483]

@mihir0x69 @vishal_biyani It was in my list after the tweet
Got a chance to read it now 🙂

[Nishant Munjal @nishant483]

@mihir0x69 @vishal_biyani Thanks for the recommendation here! This was a gem of a read. I wish more people knew about the man and the book. 🙌

[Yash Bhardwaj @ybhrdwj]

indian quick commerce apps review:

[Nishant Munjal @nishant483]

@abhi9u @redixhumayun @rcx86 What’s a good starting point ?
Have a similar impression right now.

[Nishant Munjal @nishant483]

@niravdevpura Schools and colleges in india are supposed to be not for profit to get a certified recognition , its a restriction set by supreme court.
Even though most make a lot of money, they can’t raise funds by showing profits.

[Nishant Munjal @nishant483]

@pthakran5 @coinbase Congratulations 🚀

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

RIP Charlie Munger.

[Nishant Munjal @nishant483]

@paraschopra @arvindeashwar https://t.co/sYOXm4gyHw has helped
They are backed with research as they promise.
Though i keep switching between this and Spotify when i get bored of either.

[Nishant Munjal @nishant483]

😂😂😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@satyanadella Now they will have to use Teams!

[Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman]

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