Vir Narula

Founding eng at Kastle AI. prev. compilers @ nvidia, apple, uiuc. views are my own.

[Vir Narula @vir_narula]

Vibe coding is just writing unshippable code

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@harjtaggar Curious why you chose to ask OpenClaw instead of one of the chat apps (ie gpt, Claude) ?

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@avikrishna Privileged Container

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We gotta stop anthropomorphising models like this

You don’t know them like that

[Tyler @rezoundous]

Can't explain it, but I trust GPT-5.5 more than Opus 4.7 right now.

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Flask was a mistake

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@mattyglesias Why Matthew

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@Jason Is This It by the Strokes is timeless

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@ericzakariasson This

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@thsottiaux Every formatted code block has the type scroll down w/ you and covers the code

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@thsottiaux Every formatted code block has the type scroll down w/ you and covers the code

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@mitchellh Awesome - Curious how much smaller this made the binary?

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@csparks1919 Gemini, make Slack but Google
Make no mistakes

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Always wondered why Google hasn’t made a Slack competitor

> so many orgs on GSuite already
> Integration with GDrive
> teams is bad UX
> slack’s pricing is a nightmare

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

I'm tempted to finally churn off Slack.

We're paying ~$6k/year for 40 people and they just quoted me $21k/year for the business version that includes a BAA (and all the shitty AI features).

Incredibly overrated software

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@ns123abc “It’s over” is now a de-monetized phrase

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@bephrem Sometimes plants

[can @can]

your db query is slow? just add this! boom, now you are ai-native instead of lazy!

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@jonchu Couldn���t you say that Meta’s attention has been on making good models before starting/funding MSL? What do you think was materially different this time around?

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@_robyn_smith You’re probably gonna lose followers for this

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TIL ChatGPT can “see” YouTube videos

Surprisingly, Claude can’t

[KITKAT @KITKAT]

Regarding recent press coverage

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@peterfenton @benchmark @btaylor Have you used Ghostwriter? Any thoughts on the experience?

[rahul @rahulgs]

seems obvious but:

things that are changing rapidly:
1. context windows
2. intelligence / ability to reason within context
3. performance on any given benchmark
4. cost per token

things that are not changing much:
1. humans
2. human behavior, preferences, affinities
3. tools, integrations, infrastructure
4. single core cpu performance

therefore,

ngmi:
1. "i found this method to cut 15% context"
2. "our method improves retrieval performance 10% by using hybrid search"
3. "our finetuned model is cheaper than opus at this benchmark"
4. "our harness does this better because we invented this multi agent system"
5. "we're building a memory system"
6. "context graphs"
7. "we trained an in house specialized rl model to improve task performance in X benchmark at Y% cost reduction"

wagmi:
1. product/ui
3. customer acquisition
4. integrations
5. fast linting, ci, skills, feedback for agents
6. background agent infra to parallelize more work
7. speed up your agent verification loops
8. training your users, connecting to their systems and working with their data, meeting them where they are