Ritvik Shukla

Builder designing systems.

[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

@arpit_bhayani LOL

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

Nothing has kept me up to date with AI quite like The Daily Diff ... and it now has 104 editions :)

In case you are new here, TDD is an "engineering newspaper" that I curate. It started with my own itch to stay updated on AI, systems, and databases. I publish a new edition every single day.

Every edition has ~20 high-quality stories, blogs, and research papers that I believe are worth your time.

No fluff, as always.

https://t.co/IyLtJNHLWy - pin it as a browser tab and keep it open while your agent is doing its thing.

[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

@arpit_bhayani This is sooo good, thank you arpit!

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

at this point, what we really need is more tok/sec.

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

It is concerning how enggs are losing their grip on their systems. Not just on the low-level code, but on the end-to-end flow of their systems as well.

I think there are two reasons for this:

1. Everything is in a hurry now. We are constantly optimizing for faster delivery, so there is less time to understand how things actually work.

2. We are moving towards higher-order abstractions. What could have been 5 well-documented steps explaining how things work is now abstracted away into poorly maintained skill files.

Btw, abstractions do not eliminate complexity. They just move it somewhere else.

So when a rare and complex issue shows up, it takes relatively longer to understand, diagnose, and fix the problem.

The happy path got faster. Yay! But failure path got longer. And that is a tradeoff we are not talking about enough.

[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

@nalinrajput23 1

[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

@trepa_io hi

[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

@JustAnotherPM Salary

[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

@devjoshstevens @Polymarket Sent you a dm Josh

[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

@Bigwavee00 Yes

[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

@BleapApp interested

[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

@yanndine CLAUDE

[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

@SorcererTrading hi

[Akshay Saini @akshaymarch7]

Most engineers will use AI.
Very few will understand what it’s doing.

[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

@antmillionsbot YES

[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

@swayaminsync Lines of code and writing pure shit!

[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

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[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

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[Ritvik Shukla @systemsmithh]

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[Shubham Kukreti @ShubhamKukretii]

thanks Nikhil for backing us.

i wish there were more people like him who put their money where their mouth is.

but sadly there are none as of now.