Vineet Kumar

Always 📚 learning, 🧑🏿‍🏫 teaching & 👷🏾 building. Gen AI enthusiast!
@IITKanpur alum

[Vineet Kumar @vinytiwari95]

/goal command:

Think of it as:
work → verify → fail → retry → PASS → stop

The interesting part isn’t making the agent work longer, it’s separating the worker from the decision that the work is finished.

A useful pattern for tests, migrations, refactors, CI fixes.

[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.

[Vineet Kumar @vinytiwari95]

@karpathy @vlelyavin While productivity is the standard metric that the coding assistants have enhanced for the developers, "cognitive stamina" is the actual gain. Preventing the mental burnout associated with fixing errors manually and repetitive boilerplate, documentation etc.

[Vineet Kumar @vinytiwari95]

✅"Men will be gentlemen"
❌"Men will be Men"

#BetaPadhaoBetiBachao #MenWillBeGentlemen

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[Vineet Kumar @vinytiwari95]

तप बल बिप्र सदा बरियारा।

[Vineet Kumar @vinytiwari95]

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
- Haruki Murakami

[Vineet Kumar @vinytiwari95]

@sidlal154 😅 no way.

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@ArvindKejriwal Seriously, I mean seriously.😏 Doesn't matter whether the candidate is Dalit or not. He/she should be a worthy candidate actually.

[RIL Campus Relations @RILCampus]

The young talent from @iitkanpur1 have joined the Reliance team as Engineering summer interns 2017. We wish them the best of luck!

[Vineet Kumar @vinytiwari95]

@sidlal154 @SunilPNarine74 @KKRiders I don't give any f**k

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@ajaymeena96 @asliyoyo This time he is composing a dhamakedar song