Shyamal Pandya

Software Engineer

[Shyamal Pandya @shpandya]

@NGKabra I think there are people who push the boundaries when it comes to reaching the airport for their flights too...

[Shyamal Pandya @shpandya]

Love the sound effects... And need to look into the sorting algos I didn't know about before looking at this:

https://t.co/giU6ZfSpph

[Shyamal Pandya @shpandya]

A headline that belongs to The Onion:

Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning

https://t.co/5afUyZ5MiR

[Shyamal Pandya @shpandya]

A universal phenomenon

[BURKOV @burkov]

Starmer two days ago: "I will not resign."

Starmer today: "I resign."

I would rather die than break my word.

These disgusting people have no honor or shame. And regrettably, they always get away with it while the voters keep electing these pathetic liars.

[Shyamal Pandya @shpandya]

Centrally administered exams in a huge country like ours are so challenging to manage... Decentralisation could be more beneficial. #NEET #neet2

[Shyamal Pandya @shpandya]

Context: Fable 5 refuses to answer basic biology questions

[Eryney (NYC 7/1-8/31) @eryney_ok]

The plan: make our frontier model refuse to answer basic questions about biology so that users are forced to actually learn biology the old fashioned way

[Shyamal Pandya @shpandya]

Not sure if I'm repeating myself, but using acronyms to wish on birthdays (HBD) comes out as very self important. You think you're sounding cool, maybe even busy, but you're making it all about yourself instead of the birthday boy/girl. It's just a few extra letters, type it all!

[Hetal Rach @heytal]

One good thing about this is that when he wins it next year, he would again become first Indian to win Norway Chess 2027!

[Shyamal Pandya @shpandya]

Try to be the special few who put their own words up on the Internet.
#AISlop

[Shyamal Pandya @shpandya]

The perils of over-relying on AI...

[André @oracles]

Today Instagram had this massive exploit where hackers were just stealing rare handles left and right. Hundreds of accounts gone.

People losing handles they’ve owned since 2010, some worth hundreds of thousands.

I own a few rare ones so I was actually stressed watching this happen in real time, which I haven’t been in years.

Obama White House account got hit.

These aren’t some random new accounts, these are verified, locked down accounts and they still got compromised.

The thing is the exploit is so simple it’s almost funny. Attacker goes to Forgot Password, says their account is hacked, turns on a VPN to match the target’s location (which now you can find on the about section of the page).

Instagram’s AI support flow asks them to verify with a selfie.

They grab a photo from the target’s profile, run it through an AI video generator to make an animation of the person’s face moving around, upload that to Meta’s AI as proof.

And Meta’s AI just accepts it because it can’t tell the difference between a real selfie and an AI-generated video of someone’s face
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Once verified they change the email to theirs. Password reset link goes to their email. They own it now. 2FA gets bypassed somehow in the process but honestly I don’t know exactly how, just that it did.

Point is even locked down accounts went down.

Then you try to recover your account and you’re talking to a chatbot that has zero ability to help.

You can’t escalate to a human. You’re just stuck. Your asset is gone and there’s no one to call.

The whole thing just highlighted how stupid it is to automate account security without any human in the loop.

One AI fooling another AI while there’s literally no person anywhere to catch it.

Meta took hours to even acknowledge it while accounts were getting stolen every minute.

Now thankfully it’s patched but I don’t think it will be the last one. Stay safe!

[Shyamal Pandya @shpandya]

New term - dickover - annoying pop-up overlaying many websites. Cookies, terms and conditions, asking you to subscribe to see the article, etc.

Courtesy: John Gruber - https://t.co/tcmJU69Tdb

[Shyamal Pandya @shpandya]

Datacenter growth is booming owing to AI. What if things go bust? I am reminded of the animation movie Wall-E, which presents a stark future of a world filled with abandoned machines.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

That feeling of: "I'm in the middle of the code... oh, this is such a nasty hack. OK, let me clean it up as I go. [2 hours pass] OK, it's done, now let me get back to where I was."

It just never happens as organically as I use AI agents. I no longer spot stuff as I don't "live in" the code...

[Shyamal Pandya @shpandya]

This happen with relatively simple sounding names. My area has two building near each other - Majestic and Mystic. Delivery person's frequently mistake one for the other.

[कुशल मेहरा @kushal_mehra]

I am not against the West. But most Indians cannot pronounce these European names. Imagine the plight of the Ola, Uber, Swiggy, Zomato dude trying to ask yeh "Chateau" kidhar hai. Even I would go through the same torture. Bhai jo bhi naam ho eventually uska Jhantu karan hee hoga nah India mein? To pehle se desi rakho.

[Shyamal Pandya @shpandya]

Pune too. Example society name: Epitome. On the face of it people will think that that is an easy name to pronounce. But a vast majority are just going to pronounce it wrong and think they are saying it correctly.

[कुशल मेहरा @kushal_mehra]

Genuine question for folks that track real estate trends. I've been looking for an apartment for myself across Mumbai South and Central after living in one spot for 30+ years.
As I check different projects out I notice a change. All real estate projects have stopped using Indian names for their gated communities and buildings. They use absurd western names that even their sales representatives find hard to pronounce. Yeh kaunse naye angrez hai bhai? Desi naam mein kya problem hai? If some building is called Samruddhi and not "Nautilus" uski quality low ho jaati hai kya?

[Shyamal Pandya @shpandya]

Treasure trove of Software Engineering laws and principles

https://t.co/Y7thAeQ11z

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

First Lata Mangeshkar. Now Asha Bhosle. Different styles, both touched by greatness. So many great songs, for me Umrao Jaan was the cherry on the top. The last survivor of the great era of Rafi, Kishore, Mukesh, Manna Dey, Talat, Geeta Dutt, Lata and Asha is gone and while we use the expression loosely, it is really the end of an era.

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

I don’t burn bridges. I just fail to structurally maintain them and let them degrade over time.

[BURKOV @burkov]

Now I have the full picture. Let me just confirm one more thing.

[... 5 minutes ...]

Now I have the full picture. I only need to find out how this thing works.

[... 10 minutes ...]

Now I have the full picture. Please run this query to provide me this last additional detail.