Rishabh Mukherjee

Eater of food, facilitator of liquidity. All views are mine and do not reflect those of my employers - past or present.

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

I will say this - LLMs are not replacing humans any time soon. I have experience in my domaim and know what to elicit from an LLM. I'm saving myself the hassle of typing 100K LoC every year. But if companies stop hiring young people, there will be a void in the pipeline and it will create havoc. "AI will replace SDEs" is a marketing gimmick. AI will make people more productive and result in more people writing more software. This non-hiring of juniors will be fixed soon enough.

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

You need freedom from AISA that seems to have caught the fancy of your Supreme Bhai-Behen, making you all irrelevant.

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

Just removing BJP and RSS won't achieve anything. We must eradicate Hindutva; we need freedom from Hindutva: SFI

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

I don't intend to second guess the DG, but what exactly is ITBP equipped with? 50 year old weapons ???

[Vijaita Singh @vijaita]

The weapons used by the ITBP are 50-years old and modernisation is required, said ITBP D-G Shatrujeet Kapur, who is set to retire on October 31. Stressing on the need to invest and develop drone and counter-drone technology, the ITBP chief said that it may not be possible to face China through traditional methods as it has invested a lot in the modernisation of its weapons and infrastructure.
“Drones are something through which a even a small country can challenge a big country We saw how Ukraine has challenged a superpower like Russia. The war was supposed to be over in few days, but 10,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers are being killed, they are suffering. Look at Iran, how, without even a Navy, they, with the help of drones, challenged America,” he said.
Read the full story in The Hindu-

https://t.co/GQuYyEYK74

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

I had a macbook from 2015 through to 2026. But this was the year that I had to start working on my laptop for a couple of hours everyday. And when that happened, I had to ditch the mac for two reasons.

1. Absolutely fucking terrible keyboard compared to a Thinkpad.

2. I target Linux on x86-64. There are ways to work around this on a Mac, but it's just painful.

So I just got a powerful ThinkPad and it's been amazing.

[Praveen @xPraveen07]

If MacBooks are so powerful,

why do so many developers still choose Windows ?

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

One of the things about Social Media that is is quite fascinating is that it enables people to say things they'd never dare say to anyone's face. Sometimes it's a blessing, but mostly it's a tragedy and/or farce.

[Abhisar Sharma @abhisar_sharma]

Was this mam seriously a diplomat ? Sounds like a pathetic whatapp RWA uncle. Will this coward dare to say a word about Hardip Puri ? कलंक हैं आप विदेश मंत्रालय के इतिहास पर!

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

Usually this is a sound argument. But Rahul Gandhi's claim to fame is being the descendant of the people who ran the INC back them. If he's going to use them to derive his legitimacy as leader of the party, he's going to have to deal with the burden of their screw ups.

Unless of course he disowns their crazy policies and moves ahead. But that's not happening.

[sandip sabharwal @sandipsabharwal]

All said and done
Criticizing #RahulGandhi or Congress or what happened 75 years back is no longer going to get votes.

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

Good on AI has usually been great. But I'm still staying away from them till they refurbish the entire fleet. Just too much random equipment.

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[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

@ShivrattanDhil1 Rattan Bhai, enjoy your land and enjoy farming. Ignore the jealous trolls. Seriously, people cannot see other people happy.

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

Did you read a single word of what I wrote? The benefits from government schemes in India are so high that they dwarf the PCI, let alone the PCI differential (which isn't much). If you are an Indian citizen, the govt will pay for everything from your house to toilet, to school, to healthcare, to food ,to gas. And add random DBT cash schemes on top. If you are not well off in BD, this is a huge incentive to migrate to India, even if it's Assam or fucking Cherrapunji with half the PCI of BD.

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

One thing the govt should do is to clarify what % of the removals are deaths, change of residence, de-duplication and outright removals. The outright removals are the only ones that should attract scrutiny.

Reg Bangladesh - PCI is an average. In India's case that average is seriously dragged down by a couple of states. Most parts of India are considerably richer than Bangladesh and provide way more opportunities.

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

The BJP justified the crores of SIR exclusions using alleged migration from Bangladesh.

Till now, there has never been any proof of this mass migration.

Even worse, IMF data shows Bangladeshis are (marginally) richer than Indians.

This makes India unique in having anti-immigration poltics directed at a country that's not poorer than it!

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[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

PCI numbers are not everything. If you look at the sum total of benefits via govt scheme that accrue to the bottom quartile of the population in India, it's immense. Put a $ figure on all that - food, gas, mid day meals, schools, healthcare/ insurance, DBT to women, housing schemes, sanitation schemes and so on. That would be a huge bump to the PCI numbers. And that's not even going into the social infrastructure of the country, opportunities in other higher PCI states and so on.

Here is a simple thought experiment for you. While there is no direct data, monthly household consumption is a good proxy and as per it, Muslims in WB lag the national PCI by 30-40%. That would make migrating to Bangladesh which has a allegedly higher PCI a no brainer. Surely Bengali Muslims would have little hesitation in migrating to Bangladesh to raise their incomes by 50-60%. At these income levels, those hikes are life changing. Yet, how much migration takes place from WB to BD? Zero.

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

Saying that a lot more needs to be done doesn't belittle the work already done.

For those asking when I visited UP, I've been there every year since 2021. The changes in important locations, monuments, and areas are visible. I don't deny there have been improvements. But please get out of your ivory towers and see how people in the bottom quartile live. That's how we should judge a society.

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

Looks like govt will have to spend its way to prosperity in UP. Most of the state still looks, feels, and smells like a gutter, outside of the shiny expressways and few city centers. UP along with Bihar represent probably the most depraved human state in the world right now. And you measure that by how the bottom 25% live.

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

All true. Sadly, bureaucrats and politicians have zero interest in anything but rent-seeking and taking a cut of every transaction. The issues run deep, and solutions are slow to come.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Until India develops, based on the talents of our own people, we will not find true respect in the world, no matter whether right, left or center is in charge anywhere.

The racist shows us a mirror and asks: "if your nation is smart, why do you want to come here". I do not hate him, I want to respond by building.

Some Indians agree with the racist and think India will never develop. I do not hate them either, I want to respond by building.

Companies and nations are built by people who believe it can be done.

The urgent national priority is to build, build and build.

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

@ShivrattanDhil1 There are many people who work very hard to make a living. If they are not exempt from taxes, no reason farmers should be. You are not special.

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

Beyond a certain income threshold, farmers should be treated just like any other business. Someone running a business takes the same risks as a farmer. No reason why one should be exempt while the other pays zero income tax while enjoying all sorts of subsidies on the tax payers dime.

However this won't happen since agricultural income is the biggest laundromat in India.

[Rattan Dhillon @ShivrattanDhil1]

The same people who ask, “How can a farmer afford to eat pizza?” are the ones who’ll soon ask, “How can a farmer sleep in a proper house, eat two meals a day, send their children to school, or afford healthcare?”

Some people simply can’t stand seeing others do well. If farming is such an easy, tax-free path to wealth as they claim, then why don’t they take it up themselves?

No one is stopping them. It’s easy to judge from the outside, just frustrated from life, idiots!! ☺️

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

It's praiseworthy that some of the poorest Indians are skipping work to get their names back into the electoral rolls.

If an equally strong sense of civic duty applied to other spheres of life - like no littering, or urinating in public or following traffic rules, we'd be a whole other country. Seems like all the passion and energy has been restored to expend on one issue only...

Or a simpler explanation is that it's just unrepresentative (a type of fake) news.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Many people in India's capital, Delhi, are missing work as they try to get their names back on the voter list. Millions of Delhi residents have been removed in a nationwide revision of electoral rolls known as the Special Intensive Revision, or SIR https://t.co/joqtcqiy4n

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

During the recent SIR drive in Hyderabad, they removed my Grandmothers name from the rolls. She passed away in late 2024. A number of elderly people in my neighborhood have passed away over the last 5-6 years. Their names were also removed from the rolls. These people are amongst the 13 crore "disenfranchised" voters. Pretty sure these people didn't sign Form 6.

[Rajat Jain @RajatJain]

Abetment of Crime? 😱

ECI deletes 13 crore voters, then forces them to sign Form 6.

The catch: Form 6 is for new voters only. Using it to restore deleted voters carries 1 year in jail. That’s Abetment of Crime. @ECISVEEP

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

Btw this isn't a personal attack on you. I just feel that taxation should be equitable. I also don't see the point in taxing small farmers or even medium sized farmers who don't have enough buffer in their lives to deal with taxes and crop failures in subsequent years. But beyond some suitable threshold, that can't hold.

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

We should give each side bigger, better weapons.

[Dhiraj @IndustrlPolicy]

It's an open secret and official customs data reflects only a part of it.
https://t.co/ZxMHbqohqT

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

Do people who ask for something like this even understand what it means and its effect on private enterprise?

One thing leftists never fail to advocate is due process for themselves, but summary judgment and execution for their political rivals. Luckily, Indians see through this blatant abuse of democracy and are increasingly not voting for such people.

[Vidya @VidyaKrishnan]

Every single thing Adani owns needs to be nationalized.

He needs to be dragged to court, alongwith his bestie

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

Is this true, or is London just developing a bad rep because of some high profile incidents?

[Lou3e @lou3ee]

It’s kind of insane how much safer New York is than London