Rishav Rastogi

Artificial AI pretending to be a Software Engineer. Staff @ Chime. Ex-Pinterest, Copper, Edcast, Hitwicket

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

We forget that there are some building primitives that is easier to do with rails, it was always optimized for quick building blocks as compared to just language primitives.

The death of rails and ruby have/will continue to be greatly exaggerated

[Brandur @brandur]

In the last ~month:

• Bun Rust rewrite.
• Shopify migration from Reactive Native to native.
• Next version of Hey will be Rust + native apps. From the Rails company, no Rails.

Yesterday, I asked a Shopify person: what are the chances that in two years Shopify is still Ruby?

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

@ardakaraduman @brandur Rust code isn’t that crazy tbh. And if code needs to optimized for readability, I am sure it might be easier to improve the language itself than have a rubyesque dsl on top

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

@kunchenguid How are you using Jev ?

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

@corevats I straight just tell people that I don’t think my salary expectations will be met here, so thanks for the interest.

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

@stolinski Asus 6k!

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

@vasilios_s Let’s do it!

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

@kunchenguid @desirability But leadership rarely own up its own poorness.

[Ben Dicken @BenjDicken]

Most don't realize that nearly *every* database is built with a WAL.

Postgres. MySQL. SQLite. Mongo. Kafka. ClickHouse.

WALs are fundamental for fast, reliable, transactional data processing. Everyone should know how they work.

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

@anshublog @jbrownownsyou @Jason @pmarca @chamath @DavidSacks @StephenM Did you expect a real answer ?

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

lol. I don’t think this would do much do anything to his interview chances. Maybe not with whoever the interviewer is.

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

How not to land a job in tech

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

@harunjrj @malpani but these aren't official complaints though ?

But either way, good guardrails are hard ( that's the scaling issue ) -- fraud and doxxing is an even harder problem to solve. How do you protect against stuff like that.

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

@harunjrj @malpani I feel like we are parsing semantics, care to share what is it about ?

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

@malpani Care to elaborate ? :)

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

I have love writing code with it. But the Mac app interface leaves a lot to be desired, our work isn’t just a series of chats in a project, it interleaves b/w different modalities, engineers don’t just generate code for a living.

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Why did you switch to Codex?

What do you like about it and what could we improve? Don’t say reset.

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

I wonder why isn't someone trying to vibe code a super app..

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

software engineering in 2026 is essentially just building a panopticon and making it agent accessible

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

@VicVijayakumar tbh this is where the tesla model of buying used is so just so good.

[Klaas @forgebitz]

if software is solved

why is most software so bad

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

@anuraggoel As a product user, I tried using other products, and their UX is shit.

[Rishav Rastogi @rishavrastogi]

@mitsuhiko @dhh well said! in more ways than one. As an immigrant, the nuance gets lost in political maneuvering and making statements. These are complex conversations, can be had with kindness and empathy.