Protichi Basak

Master's @michiganstateu | CS @IIITDelhi | Previously @GoldmanSachs, @railsgirls Opinions are my own

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@agrawalamod Opportunity was let go

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@tweetsofpooja Hi

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@SFMTA_Muni I was recently charged $12 for a one-way ride when paying via contactless credit card. I would expect $2.85 for a trip from Civic Center to Golden Gate Toll Plaza on 04 July 2026. Can you please explain why I was charged $12?

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability.

The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.

But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along.

So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions.

TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.

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Upgraded to the latest iOS. Realising how even the tiniest change in the placement of options can ruin the WHOLE experience. I don't think I have patience to realign to trivial thing in life like a mobile phone.

[Deedy @deedydas]

This software engineer was nearly hacked by a coding interview.

I've never seen this attack channel before. Be careful out there, especially vibe coders.

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@tweetsofpooja I am your mom and I love this joke

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Zoom should place mic and video buttons in separate corners of the room if possible

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@kishan_thesiya winner winner dhokla dinner

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Hard relate

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Returning from a good trip and realizing it’s jus a memory now

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@bugssquisher She laughed because she is happy for you😂

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@KitchenAidUSA
What kind of low quality products are you making for stuff that is used in food we consume?

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@tweetsofpooja Welcome to my world

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@tweetsofpooja What

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My farmville in 2010

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This is wealth

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@kukreja_abhinav Bhai bhai manga le se manga le

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@tweetsofpooja @mobbin Stop stealing my Netflix