Nirav Gandhi

Web aficionado, Engineering Manager at @kalerisofficial @octopi_tos. Also building @thelazypotatohq

[Nirav Gandhi @niyando]

@GabbbarSingh This is no dialogue. This is one way communication.

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Proud of this kid. He seems amazing. Humbly, It feels like your channel is exploiting him to invalidate other kids. Maybe the next time a bridge collapses you could interview someone who took a longer route to work and got promoted. Instead of engineers or people under it.

[Salman Khan @BeingSalmanKhan]

It was such a peaceful movement, feel so sad that it had to take a violent turn. My heart goes out to the students and their families who were hurt. Paper leak is a very serious issue, and I am glad to know n see that the kids of our country have come together for a better educational system, and their parents supported them.

I truly appreciate the stand they have taken, showing dedication, sincerity, and keenness to study hard n make their future and a greater, educated India. This andolan, this protest, is the right way to go abt it, n the students have done this peacefully. So courageous and brave. Driven and motivated towards education, this generation will make India proud.

This issue is between the students and the educational system, it should not be hijacked politically, the credit should only go to the students of our country, and I am sure the government will also give them all the support n make it a stronger educational system. It’s a win-win situation. Hoping n praying for a positive decision. God bless all of you who wanna be educated.

Education should be the next trend and fashion, and should get trendier n more fashionable yr by yr, itna k bahar se log come to India to study and India becomes an educational hub.

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

Every piece of software I use which used to be originally produced with a lot of care has gotten shitty. Just to make a list from top of my head...

1. Starting with this site. I used to give an example of how the Twitter mobile app was epitome of saving list scroll state across app lifecycle and even app death, all the way back in 2016 when teaching mobile development to my students. Today, most tweets > 2 day old if I open, the replies do not load, I don't get notifications for DMs, and random parts of it don't work at random times.

2. MacOS which was once more polished than Windows on the UI and as hackable as Linux from inside out - now randomly freezes, has kernel panics, needs disabling needless safety features all they way from safe mode to get basics working or toning down the horrible glass UIs.

3. Spotify used to be one of my favourite products, having great offline-first experiences, seamless sync across devices, handover of songs midway between phone, desktop, car, etc. Now the app can't even load offline downloaded playlists properly when internet is down, sync almost never works, UI glitches, watch app can't figure out how to play on headphone, or when to sync from phone to watch.

4. Whatsapp - one of the most performant apps, with solid delivery rates even with as slow as 2G/EDGE internet, now actually has dead-end UI flows (when sending photos, trying to edit it can lead to an unknown state), message deliveries often don't work even on solid internet, and media uploads frequently need retries.

5. Microsoft's entire office suite which used to be a workhorse product - something so reliable, that non-tech people would never touch Google Sheets with a 10-foot pole and threaten to resign if they didn't have a proper desktop app license of MS Office. Now they push you towards the cloud versions which work way worse than Google Workspace, and have add tons of React UI elements in the Desktop apps that makes then visibly slow and janky and large Excel sheets even crash sometimes.

Most of these were on the trajectory of enshittification before wide-scale agentic coding or Claude-driven development was even all that common.

The entire industry is in a phase where everyone is just building things because it is their job, and the era of care, and sincere craftsmanship of products has mostly come to an end.

[Nirav Gandhi @niyando]

@In_Sane_Saint The lounge is for people optimizing perks. The wealthy optimize time.

[Tehseen Poonawalla Official 🇮🇳 @tehseenp]

Most Indian vehicles were never designed for E20, yet Modi ji's govt & Gadkari ji keep pushing towards E30 and even E100.

As an Indian, I pay full price for my car + taxes on it, pay road tax, pay tolls, pay Centre + state tax on every litre of fuel, pay parking charges… and in return I get $h¡tty infrastructure and now even $h¡ttier forced ethanol-blended fuel that was never meant for most cars on the road.

If I want pure petrol, I should be allowed to buy it. Period.

This ethanol experiment on the common man & their vehicles has made us lab rats.

#E20Damage #EthanolScam #GadkariEthanol

[Nirav Gandhi @niyando]

@andrewmccalip How does the 50% work? You show one ad to just one user?

[Nirav Gandhi @niyando]

@chiragbarjatya The hotel doesn’t change people’s priorities; it reveals them. Most people see the buffet as something they paid to maximize, while only those with an established fitness habit see the gym as non-negotiable. Habits travel with you.

[Nirav Gandhi @niyando]

@outofofficedaku Return flights will loot you accordingly.

[Wise @trikcode]

Before AI, I had 5 unfinished projects.
After AI, I have 128 unfinished projects.

[Wise @trikcode]

You basically need to be unemployed to keep up with all this AI stuff.

[Nirav Gandhi @niyando]

@aks0510 @chiragbarjatya Only for a few years. They usually handover the management to society committee after that. You can get the same amenities that Chirag talks about in his post by joining a good health club.

[Nirav Gandhi @niyando]

@volklub I can totally feel the lack of power in my kushaq :(

[Naval @naval]

The new competition isn’t Humans vs AI. It’s Humans with AI vs everyone else.

[Nirav Gandhi @niyando]

The irony of the “whey prices are about to explode” crowd is watching them hoard whey and convince everyone else to do the same, just to make sure it actually happens.

[Nirav Gandhi @niyando]

@chiragbarjatya Your tweet will jack up the prices for sure!

[Farza 🇵🇰🇺🇸 @FarzaTV]

Just because anyone can build software now doesn't mean software is dead. Anyone can bake bread in their home right now, yet 99% of us still choose to buy it from someone else. Simple products are complex! I will always be happy to pay someone to handle the nuances.

[Nirav Gandhi @niyando]

@GabbbarSingh It’s also the only way to experience childhood again :)

[Nirav Gandhi @niyando]

@hnshah @yudDIDit @editframe I did try creating a marketing video for a side project using Claude code and hyper frames. Yet to check this out.