Vikas

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

This essay has been in my head as a draft for the last 5 years. It's about Kannada identity, triggered by a certain phrase I kept seeing in people's reviews of the 'new-age' movies.

I'd love to know if any of it resonates with you.
https://t.co/d7WswHEOjL

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

@deliprao I put "Be tenacious. I believe in you" in a prompt once. 🥹

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

@redixhumayun https://t.co/HN8Zq6lJdD it is a CLI to drive the browser, much more token efficient than MCP

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

@redixhumayun I think it helps to start with the question: if the subsystem *was* concurrent, how would you verify? Can you run two scripts at the same time and see evidence in the logs?

this blog where they talk about "harness engineering" is really helpful https://t.co/8kXsyFAHih

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

@redixhumayun - also have it do the verification as much as possible. Get it to write scripts or tests it can run to see if it has reached the desired end state.

Let this loop go on for a long time.

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

@redixhumayun Endless planning has limited value. I get the best results from codex when I can:
- describe the *end state* I want in as much detail as I can (e.g., "when I click this, A, B, C should happen", or "I want a background job that does ...")

[Dushyant Arora @atti_cus]

Most Indians are convinced that the poorest person they know is their watchman on domestic worker, and are blissfully oblivious to 1/3rd of India earning less than 3k a month.

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

my new way of learning to cook is ordering from a restaurant

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

💯 you should not be building dashboards that turn business data into actionable insights before you're 30

[Julia Turc @juliarturc]

Dear “15-18 yo founder”s sending me DMs, don’t.

Go and hug your parents, fall in love, eat chocolate cereal for breakfast, read poetry. Nobody will give you back these years.

And sure, do your homework and learn math and code if that feels fun. But stop building SaaS and hustling.

Even if career is what you are optimizing for, this is not the way. You need deep education that will withstand automation. You need to sit with linear algebra and probability theory and philosophy and literature. It won’t get you go viral on X but it’ll make you whole.

And mute all the SF performative assholes.

Oooops sorry this last one was a note to self.

[Reb @soundrotator]

Learning code has me in disbelief at what these nerds have been cooking the last 40 years

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

@samwhoo beautiful post, big fan of your work!

a small correction: Θ just means a "tight" (upper & lower) bound, it doesn't necessarily imply avg. case. Similarly big-O doesn't imply it's worst case

https://t.co/p4M3FXS2i0

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

@neeldhara The original Paxos paper is written entirely as an account of the mechanisms of a fictional parliament on a Greek island https://t.co/OtwoqS4zhP

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

IV. Don't trust everything Aristotle says, do a fucking experiment!

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

I. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Ask some wise man in India for details.

II. Things happen in the natural world according to rules, not the whims of gods. Hire the Greeks to find them for you.

III. All things in the universe are made of combinations of the same LXXX elements.

[John @jrysana]

I wonder what's the smallest amount of today's knowledge you'd need to give to the Romans back in 27 B.C. in order to spark industrialization/modernity roughly equivalent to our own but two millennia earlier

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

they should make post-it notes that have glue at both ends

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

(serious) ML researchers seem to do everything they can to make their papers seem more intimidating

[Alec Helbling @alec_helbling]

Why is KL Divergence a more commonly used term in the ML literature than the (in my opinion) much more intuitive “relative entropy”?

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

maybe time to finally stop reading HN comments. morons out there arguing that IMO problems are not that hard.

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

This is what the future looks like. The number of people who program in some form is going to double, triple.

The people who bitterly look down on AI-assisted coding will be left behind as relics of a bygone era.

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

It is time for us to invite vibe-coders into our programming communities. https://t.co/LxFMyFFS4B

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

AI coding has led to a phenomenon I call "all vegetables and no candy"

The only thing I need to do is the *hard* parts of programming. This messes with your brain energy levels. Previously, there were always periods of low-energy repetitive work that you could do on autopilot.

[Jack Morris @jxmnop]

i feel intense pang of nostalgia thinking about how i will never have to write an immense amount of repetitive code to eg build a website ever again. there was a quiet bluecollar satisfaction to this type of work, knowing that if you don’t stay up all night smacking keys the thing really just won’t exist

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

my regexes made Ken Thompson crash
my beauty could launch a thousand ships
my device drivers made Linus Torvalds panic

hah, I pity you fools!
wasting your treasure at the temple of Claude

[Vikas @vikasgorur]

Every "AI coding doesn't work" post/comment I see is just a thinly-disguised version of

"I am so smart and the problems I solve are unique, while you were partying I studied the blade" etc.