Nikhil Mungel

AI R&D at @cribl_io | Hiring researchers & developers | Purpose built models for observability, telemetry, and security

[Nikhil Mungel @nmungel]

When it comes to real tasks that IT and Security practitioners undertake, you can see open weight outperform on both performance AND price.

[Nikhil Mungel @nmungel]

Prediction: flying ads in the open skies gets regulated or banned

[Nikhil Mungel @nmungel]

@lmeyerov @clintsharp Plan to split the benchmark into a publicly available and private held out set so that we can compare the delta across both and control for benchmaxxing

[Nikhil Mungel @nmungel]

@paulg I wonder if it's because they've invested in fine-tuning harnesses or if they believe frontier intelligence is plateauing

[LeRobot @LeRobotHF]

Your robot arm is probably already supported by LeRobot. You just don't know it yet.

The community has shipped 30+ hardware integrations: xArm, UR5e, Franka, Trossen, AgileX Piper, I2RT YAM, ARX5, ugo Pro, Quest and PICO 4 teleop, GELLO, Haply Inverse3 haptics, ROS 2 bridges.

Most of them are drop-in plugins.
pip install
pass --robot.type=...
and you're recording datasets. No fork, no patching our repo.

https://t.co/jICeL5i6JT

[Nikhil Mungel @nmungel]

@bryantchou @ployai @ycombinator Congrats on the launch @bryantchou, looks sick!

[Nikhil Mungel @nmungel]

@rauchg "It's just two APIs: 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚍 and 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚕𝚎𝙲𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔" I love how simple yet elegant vercel's APIs turn out, it's like the opposite of aws

[Nikhil Mungel @nmungel]

@pitdesi potatoes at “Eats” are 🔥

[Cribl @cribl_io]

#AI promises total automation for security investigations...

...but the reality is that teams are hitting a wall: investigations remain agonizingly slow.

The failure isn't the AI, it’s the data feeding the machine.

Get your data AI-ready with @nmungel: https://t.co/JLfUiCtWrW

[Nikhil Mungel @nmungel]

@pitdesi was this at their new shop on chestnut?

[Cribl @cribl_io]

🎆 New year, new #devops enginner! We've got your perfect resolution to help you fully embrace #AI in 2026: Develop the skills required to use AI for solving development and engineering challenges: https://t.co/SeEavpmSYA

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[Nikhil Mungel @nmungel]

@Jessicalessin probably so that free users hit usage limits and upgrade

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Having some AI follow you into your zoom meetings or google meet for taking notes is the digital equivalent of showing up to a meeting with your fly down

[Nikhil Mungel @nmungel]

@AaronErickson I think this will take off once there's a way to bake the learning into the model's weights at least daily. If the learning is simply clever context engineering then I'm less optimistic -- maybe it works for narrow tasks, but hard to see how it'll scale generally, wdyt?

[Nikhil Mungel @nmungel]

@paulg Maybe he thought it's Campo snatch-a Margherita

[Pallav Agarwal @pallavmac]

This is incredible 🤯. Sora 2 passes the glass refraction test.

[Nikhil Mungel @nmungel]

@tianyuf Great move, congrats!

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

With $FIG we have another massive "POP" highlighting the gross inefficiency in the modern IPO process. It's very simple. They REFUSE to match supply/demand (that happened today). They brag about the mis-match - "30X oversubscribed." The outcome is expected & fully intentional.

[Nikhil Mungel @nmungel]

dns

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

what are the theories for why Starlink is down?

[Cribl @cribl_io]

Integrating #AI means balancing performance with reliability, speed with governance, and innovation with operational reality. Thankfully, @nmungel wrote you all a guide for choosing between Prompting, Fine-tuning, and Training so you can get started: