ShaileshPant

…. - Views are my own, obviously!!!

[ShaileshPant @shaileshpant]

Don't confuse the inaction borne by the dread of uncertainty to be the same as inaction amidst action driven by awareness of uncertainty

[Ritish Reddy @itsritish]

2+ hours. Every single day. That's how long kids from Whitefield spend on Varthur Road for a 5km commute. My own daughter is stuck right now as I post this. Whitefield deserves better than this. @blrcitytraffic @DKShivakumar @krishnabgowda @PCMohanMP @MALimbavali #Varthur

[Shailesh Pant @ShaileshPa40113]

Extremely painful for kids - how come these construction vehicles are allowed day in and day out; is n't there a restriction on HMV movement during daytime??

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack.

Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords.

LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm.

Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks.

Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages.

Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

It’s too late for humanity now. Claude has discovered the Kobayashi Maru test.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Thank you Sir, this is a huge morale boost for our engineers who have worked hard for over two decades to build our product suite.

We will make you proud and make our nation proud. Jai Hind 🙏

[Ashwini Vaishnaw @AshwiniVaishnaw]

I am moving to Zoho — our own Swadeshi platform for documents, spreadsheets & presentations. 🇮🇳

I urge all to join PM Shri @narendramodi Ji’s call for Swadeshi by adopting indigenous products & services.

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

@McShauno I think the "what library python has included that seems simple to use" people are taking over.

[ShaileshPant @shaileshpant]

@bitbns aur jo aur paise phanse hain uska toh kya kehna 🙄🙄

[ShaileshPant @shaileshpant]

@gauravdahake yeh withdrawal aaj ki date main ho paega app logon se

[Intel Devs @inteldevs]

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[ShaileshPant @shaileshpant]

😂😂😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!

Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security 🤣🤣

[Siqi Chen @blader]

if you could press a button that cures your child’s brain tumor in exchange for ending your life immediately, every parent would hesitate for zero seconds before fighting to be the first to press it

the cruelest thing is that no such button exists.

but there is always a move 👇

[ShaileshPant @shaileshpant]

I generally never read self-help books, but gave a try to “Don’t believe everything you think” and i can swear by it now - it really worked wonders for me.
Thanks @itsjosephnguyen for this amazing book 🙏🙏

[ShaileshPant @shaileshpant]

@bitbns any updates on this

[ShaileshPant @shaileshpant]

@bitbns @BitbnsSupportt can you please help resolve this ticket asap 790474

withdrawal stuck for past 45 days
@gauravdahake

[ShaileshPant @shaileshpant]

@BitbnsHelpline can you help resolve this also @BitbnsInfo claiming to withdraw to wallet is it true/possible @bitbns seems like a scam

[Sebastian Nehrdich @SebastianNehrd2]

Mind-blowing: While modern-day AI researchers are surprised how LLMs show emergent capabilities from text alone, The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad (~500-100 BCE) already proposed that all of reality could be understood through language! 1/

[Davanum Srinivas @dims]

🫡

[Davanum Srinivas @dims]

reading logs?