Vishnu Bharathi

Staff Eng @HasuraHQ/@PromptQL 👷 Doing dev tools, infra, backend 🛠️

@recursecenter F1' 20 alum 🖥️ Love for reading books & blogs 📚

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I've published a new, general-purpose terminal specification that gives any program a way to tell the terminal what it's doing: idle, working, waiting, finished, or failed, and why. It is easy to implement on both sides. I've written more about why: https://t.co/2FfzNC3F8T

The problem this solves is generic and applies in compelling ways to all sorts of use cases (e.g. package managers, build tools), but it really rears a hideous head when it comes to AI and the "agentic inbox" problem.

I found over 250 different agent orchestrators (with various goals) that all individually implement a heuristic based approach to detecting whether things like Claude Code are working, blocked, done, etc.

If you look at @herdrdev's commit history, you can see around 10 compatibility changes to detect Claude Code within just the past 3 months. (This isn't a dig at Herdr! They're doing great work with what they have, and everyone else is doing the same thing).

Heuristics are not the way. And over-indexing on agentic use cases isn't the way, because this problem is really interesting for other tools too: Homebrew, Terraform, Cargo, etc. etc.

Proprietary protocols and out of band APIs are not the way. They have an O(N) integration problem and require extra work to work over SSH or within local VMs/containers.

The program status specification (OSC 7501) solves this in a reliable, deterministic way that is general-purpose and can be easily adopted by the entire industry.

Read more: https://t.co/2FfzNC3F8T

[Vishnu Bharathi @scriptnull]

@confusedHooman2 👋 thanks Naveen! Glad you are liking it.

[Vishnu Bharathi @scriptnull]

New reading log is up!

So much to read in this world, and it makes me want to improve my reading pace 😅

https://t.co/0snhRF34rr

[Shraddha Agrawal @shraddhaag]

build a VM for the LC3 computer in Go to learn how it works deeply. added property based testing using hegel. it helped me find so many bugs, pretty neat!

I can play games on my own VM now!

https://t.co/HY1CYxYnYN

[Rajoshi @rajoshighosh]

We have another "Rebuild with Jev" hackathon this afternoon. If you're in SF, join us today from 1-4pm.

30 mins on Jev architectures/ examples - what works well, how to use multiple models to get the best outcomes + 60 mins to try jev on some of your most expensive workflows - so you can jevvify them effectively.

We have a few spots open. Join us!

https://t.co/agDbhRszD0

cc @typesafeai

[Vishnu Bharathi @scriptnull]

Gulp!🥤

[Tomasz Łakomy @tlakomy]

If you remember this, your back probably hurts.

[Karan Sharma @mrkaran_]

Beautiful list! ❤️

https://t.co/oPxZ1eRYE6

[Vishnu Bharathi @scriptnull]

@shraddhaag This is the way!

[Vishnu Bharathi @scriptnull]

New reading log 🗞️

https://t.co/A8RJ7nhm5l

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

We've shipped a ridiculous amount of technical blog posts in the last month.

Read below for the full list.

[Vishnu Bharathi @scriptnull]

@beaussan Happy Birthday Nicolas 🎈🎂🎊

[Bengaluru Systems (fka Bengaluru Systems Meetup) @BengaluruSys]

Hello folks, we're hosting the August Edition online on Discord on Saturday the 29th at 11 AM!
Join our Discord server if you haven't already, and stay tuned for more updates!
https://t.co/D3kOKJxjq7

[Vishnu Bharathi @scriptnull]

New reading log 📰

https://t.co/xqghfmpGdA

[Vishnu Bharathi @scriptnull]

I just discovered https://t.co/iFeGf7Z9eG via a classic Google search - how did I miss this one all these days?

[Vishnu Bharathi @scriptnull]

Picked up these books this week! 📚 Let's see what I end up reading :D

[Vishnu Bharathi @scriptnull]

@shraddhaag haha - AI;DR is the new TLDR 😀

https://t.co/h4XA6y4efc

[Fatih Arslan @fatih]

It's great to have dreams. And it's even better if you can dream big and grandiose. It gives me hope for humanity, for my family and loved ones. Nothing bad comes out of aiming for the stars.

[Vishnu Bharathi @scriptnull]

I'm ready - let's go! 🏎️

[TigerBeetle @TigerBeetleDB]

Tomorrow... #systemsdistributed '26 online!

[DHH @dhh]

Build something beautiful today.

[kepano @kepano]

@kentdebruin I collected 70 different moats, and they're all still relevant
https://t.co/AnpR9P3bV6