Pratik Singhal

Senior SDE at @AWS, BITSian, I post about career growth, programming and productivity. 📩

[Pratik Singhal @pratikth]

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[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

‘Itni dalaal media duniya main kahin nahin hogi jitni bharat main hai…’

Have to listen to this lady describe how some in the media are covering this protest. What sort of questions they are asking. Brilliant byte by @anmolpritamND @nlhindi

[The DeshBhakt 🇮🇳 @TheDeshBhakt]

This is criminal wealth destruction at scale. The world is watching as people close to power destroy investor / VC money and walk away confidently.
1. Rajesh Exports deserves some sort of accounting award for 'misrepresenting' $158 Billion (yes Billion). LIC held 10% in this fraudulent company.
2. Ola Consumer goes form $7.3 Billion (yes Billion) valuation to $70.3 Million. A record 99% markdown.
Despite having a dismal track report of failed business (Ola Cars / Ola Dash Ola Café / Ola Store) people contined to pour money into @bhash's ventures. Next on the block - Old Electric & Krutrim - that are seriously under stress?

[pranav pradhi @pranavpradhi1]

People who celebrate 10-minute deliveries as a sign of India’s progress should read this.

During the Malviya Nagar fire incident, locals say fire brigades reached nearly 45 minutes late. Residents had to spread mattresses to rescue people trapped inside, including foreign nationals.

Development is when emergency services arrive in minutes, not when groceries do.

[राहुल तंवर @RahulTavar_]

Middle Class Never supported the Politics of Education and Health.

They thought their kids study in High End Schools, why would they care for Govt Sponsored Education getting better.

They kept supporting a govt led by uneducated idiots and now this govt has ruined even the Central Education Board of this Country.

Dear Middle Class, this is just one aspect, they have hollowed every institution and if you believe you would stay unaffected then you are mistaken big time. The Country progresses and regresses for everyone.

Sooner or Later you will have to pay the price for this, the price for supporting an uneducated tyrant who took India back decades.

[Akash Krishna @AkashKrishna]

Narayana Murthy is nothing more than a glorified Program Manager who was at the right place at the right time. Low cost, high volume deliverables kept them afloat for decades. Even the minimum wage in the US two decades ago is significantly higher than what an engineer gets paid at Infosys to this day.

The fact that Infosys has remained a sweat shop since its inception with zero softwares brought to the market and transforming into a retirement home of IT coolies whose only aspiration in life is a work trip to the US, speaks about how socialist the Infosys philosophy is, and how low agency and mediocre India’s software developers were for 30 years.

How a genius like Sikka ended up at Infosys is quite astounding.

Albeit, the early employees gained from hitting the jackpot with the shares enabling thousands of them to become millionaires.

And today, we have brilliant minds with high agency, willing to take the risk of innovating and going global with their ideas, while Infosys continues to swim in the cesspool of mediocrity, paying shit salaries, while Murthy and his boomer stock of co founders and executives continue to accumulate insane wealth, while projecting modesty on the outside.

Classic champagne socialist behaviour. Modesty is just the facade because they always knew, they never deserved the wealth they accumulated and they wilfully prevented people from taking high stakes risks, because they feared their profit margins would reduce if the company innovated and created the need for investing in talent who wouldn’t settle for the salaries of a fuel station employee.

Granted, they employed lakhs of people and lakhs of families went from lower middle class to upper middle class or upper class even.

That way even Indian Railways can claim credit for the same reasons.

In between all this, we have somehow bred a generation of people who only care about increasing their networth by hook or crook, and not willing to put in the effort and intellectual rigour in building world class products.

And we expect to compete with Silicon Valley with a handful of genius entrepreneurs who shunned mediocrity.

With the capital Infosys had, they could have easily setup their own Y-Combinator and used the ideas coming out of it to become force multipliers creating an organic ecosystem of innovation labs across the likes of TCS, Tech Mahindra, Wipro et al, and by now, India would have been on par with the US for technological innovation. But we had Narayana Murthy who thought AI was hyped and rejected the idea to be an early investor in Open AI.

And this guy is supposed to be a technology leader. 😂

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

- INR falling: deep state.
- Forex going doing: deep state.
- No jobs: deep state.
- Indian market getting crushed: deep state.
- FIIs exiting: deep state.
- People talking about these issues: deep state.

When people are in deep sleep.
Everything looks deep state.

[Navaldeep Singh @NavalGeekSingh]

97% of Indians never leaving the country isn’t just a travel stat. It explains why governments get away with broken schools, filthy streets, weak infrastructure, poor healthcare and zero accountability for decades.

When people never see how other countries function, they start believing overcrowding, corruption, garbage and chaos are “normal life.”

A population that has never experienced better standards is easier to satisfy with slogans, religion, freebies and emotional politics instead of real development.

Travel doesn’t just change people. It raises expectations. And governments fear citizens with higher expectations.

[ravikiran molakala @molakalaravi]

Sridhar bro, this is 'Billionaire Privilege' disguised as patriotism. You spent 30 years in the US building Zoho into a global giant. You returned only after securing a multi-billion dollar safety net.

Telling the Indian diaspora to abandon the US while your company continues to expand its footprint there is the height of hypocrisy. You want the US market’s revenue, but you lecture the people who actually live, work, and pay taxes there. If the diaspora are just 'bystanders,' why is your sales team so focused on them? Patriotism isn't a missionary zeal you impose on others from a position of ultimate financial security.

[Pratik Singhal @pratikth]

https://t.co/we02dzan8q

[Pratik Singhal @pratikth]

This is not an AI issue in itself.

1) You had root tokens available locally for anybody to read. This in itself is a security problem. Tokens with root access shouldn't be used and if there is no alternative, it should be removed immediately after using it.

2) AI agents right now are like Tesla "Autopilot". The marketing says full self-driving but your insurance company definitely still blames you when it crashes. You're responsible, period.

3) A backup that gets deleted when you delete the database isn't a backup, it's just... a copy? The whole point of backups is that they survive when everything else burns down.

[JER @lifeof_jer]

https://t.co/ofucbVgkLV

[Aaron Levie @levie]

It’s remarkable how often you need to be dramatically upgrading your AI architecture given the pace of progress in AI models right now.

If you’re building agents, you basically need to throw away large parts of previous work that you setup to compensate for model limitations every few quarters. The systems you built to mitigate context window limits aren’t useful anymore, and for many use-cases it’s easier just to throw more compute at a problem today in ways that wouldn’t have worked previously.

If you’re deploying agents in a workflow, you likely need to equally be rethinking your core systems at about that same frequency. The way you would deploy agents in an enterprise 18 months ago is entirely different from the best practices that you’d have today.

This is partly why everyone’s working so hard right now. Right as a best practice is solidified, models improve dramatically, and that old work is rendered obsolete. Unclear that this lets up anytime soon, which is why the it pays to be so wired in right now.

[Suhas @zuess05]

The tech industry is finally waking up to the biggest grift of the last decade.

You don't need a Product Manager.
You don't need a Scrum Master.
You don't need an Agile Coach.

Entire careers were built on just interrupting the two guys who actually know how to code.

[wordgrammer @wordgrammer]

“Software is dead” because you keep vibe coding the same 3 crud apps. If you worked on cool stuff like “distributed game engines” you’d find out that there are plenty of unsolved problems

[Suryansh Tiwari @Suryanshti777]

🚨Breaking: Someone literally turns Claude into a FAANG interviewer. 🤯

Not question generator.
Not LeetCode spam.
Not fake “mock interview”.

A real structured technical interview — run by AI.

It’s called InterviewMentor.

And it gives Claude actual interviewer personas:

• SWE I / II / Senior
• System Design
• Data Engineer
• ML Engineer
• DevOps / SRE
• Debugging Interviews
• Behavioral rounds

Each one behaves like a real onsite interviewer:

Warm-up → Requirements → Deep dive → Problem → Tradeoffs → Feedback

No fluff. Just pressure. 🎯

Why this is wild:

You don’t ask for questions.
You ask the AI to interview you.

It:

• adapts difficulty based on your answers
• gives 4-level progressive hints
• pushes scalability tradeoffs
• asks follow-ups like real FAANG rounds
• evaluates performance with rubric
• shows ASCII + visual explanations

Basically:

You: “Interview me on system design.”
AI: becomes a senior interviewer

Then you're in a 45-minute mock interview.

No scheduling.
No paid mock interviews.
No courses.

Just:

clone → load skill → start interview

You can practice:

• Design Twitter
• Design Uber
• Rate limiter
• Distributed systems
• Debugging production outages
• SQL optimization
• Kubernetes incidents

Even behavioral interviews are included. 😳

This is honestly one of the most useful AI repos right now.

AI just made infinite mock interviews possible.

And that changes interview prep completely.

Bookmark this.
Your next interview depends on it.

[Suryansh Tiwari @Suryanshti777]

Holy shit… someone turned Claude into a real technical interviewer.

Not random questions.
Not LeetCode dumps.
Not shallow practice.

Actual mock interviews — inside AI.

It’s called InterviewMentor.

And it gives Claude full interviewer personas:

SWE
System design
Data engineer
ML
Debugging
Senior/staff

Each one runs like a real interview:

Warm-up → Deep dive → Problem → Feedback

Here’s why this is different:

Instead of asking for questions,
you ask the AI to interview you.

It adapts difficulty, gives hints,
pushes tradeoffs, and scores performance.

You get:

• role-specific mock interviews
• 4-level hint system
• system design walkthroughs
• debugging scenarios
• behavioral practice
• evaluation rubric

Just:

clone → load skill → start interview

No scheduling.
No $200 mock interviews.
No courses.

Just infinite interview practice.

AI interview prep just changed.

[Pratik Singhal @pratikth]

https://t.co/xlNAMXhzVi

[signüll @signulll]

america is one of very few countries that has even tried to build a multiethnic democracy at scale, & the fact that it has a visible, loud, ongoing discourse about racism is actually evidence of relatively low tolerance for it compared to countries where racial hierarchy is just... ambient & unremarked upon.

japan (lol very obvious now), korea, much of europe, india's caste system, han chauvinism in china, ethnic dynamics across the gulf states.. most of these societies don't even have the vocabulary for the conversation america tortures itself over daily.

america is quite literally is one of the least if not the least racist countries on the planet, & it's not even close.

[Pranit @Pranit]

Anthropic just pulled the oldest trick in SaaS pricing.

I pay $200/mo for Claude Max. My limits have been noticeably worse this past week.

Now they announce 2x off-peak usage for two weeks. Sounds generous.

But here’s what actually happens: limits quietly drop, a temporary 2x makes the reduced limit feel normal, the promo ends, and you’re left at a baseline lower than where you started. You just didn’t notice the downgrade because the 2x absorbed the transition.

These AI plans are massively subsidized. The raw compute behind a heavy user costs multiples of the subscription price. Every move like this is the subsidy quietly correcting.

Very sneaky, Anthropic.

[Larsen Cundric @larsencc]

The gap between "works in a demo" and "works at scale" is about 4,000 commits.