Vijay Panghal

Interests: Distributed systems.

[Vijay Panghal @vpanghal]

i think jev is classifying my timeline. its everywhere

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Steve Wozniak famously went to his boss at HP and said they should build a personal computer. They said no, so he left to found Apple. It’s a lesson for leaders: one "no" shouldn't kill a contrarian but right idea in your company.

Twice a year at Coinbase, anyone in the company can pitch a "next bet" idea to a panel of folks. It's structured similar to pitching a handful of venture capitalists internally. If you get any one of them to say yes and fund it, you're green lit.

You need ONE yes, not a unanimous yes from everyone in the org structure from you to the CEO (a de facto committee).

Lots more goes into this, around capping resourcing on next bets (most are small 2-3 person teams), knowing when to shut them down, or under what revenue/profitability criteria they graduate to regular products. But this is important to having a company that produces repeatable innovation.

[Vijay Panghal @vpanghal]

Multi part download -> BitTorrent

[Sriram Krishnan @sriramk]

Having your computer run overnight on a task and then checking on it in the morning is one of the best feelings in tech.

When I was a kid it was doing a multi part download or a slow running task.

Now it is to run a harness / agent loop / something GPU bound overnight.

[Vijay Panghal @vpanghal]

The industry hasn’t figured out AI agents yet, but somehow enterprise AI governance startups are already everywhere.

[Finbarr Taylor @finbarr]

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[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

https://t.co/55JiWR8AEu

[pedram.md @pdrmnvd]

oh you’re using claude code? everyone’s using open code. just kidding we’re all on amp code. we’re using cline, we’re using roo code. we just forked our own version of roo. were using kilo code. we were on coderabbit but their ceo yelled at us so now we’re using qorbit. apple just acquired them for $30bn so we just migrated our entire team to slash commands. one guy is still on aider. the PM is on loveable. he just shipped a new product on replit. the intern installed a slackbot that lets you chat with your spreadsheet. legal is still reviewing devin’s enterprise contract. we evaluated junie for three ukrainians using jetbrains. someone in slack just asked “has anyone tried amp?” we are using goose for scripts. next week we’re piloting augment code. the CTO heard good things about trae.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ our CEO is friends with the guy from conductor. our CFO resigned. our CISO said we’ve had fourteen supply chain attacks in the last week. we’re shipping the worlds most expensive todo app.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Vijay Panghal @vpanghal]

I would be surprised if the next generation didn't laugh at the fact that we used to build software by carefully thinking and typing every word. We are in a transition similar to the past shift from assembly to high-level programming languages.

[Vijay Panghal @vpanghal]

Every mom-and-pop company to large tech now has coding AI assistants: Kilo, Kiro, Augment, Amp, OpenCode, Factory AI, Cursor, Cline, Copilot, Tabnine, Codex, Antigravity, and the list keeps going on.

[Ben Burke @bb_fresh]

You spend your whole career engineering around some fundamental design limitation of an AWS service and one day you wake up and that limitation is just….gone

[Pratham @Prathkum]

MCP is probably the only piece of tech that has more builders than users.

[Vijay Panghal @vpanghal]

Great advice!

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

Jensen Huang on the goal of winning

[Vijay Panghal @vpanghal]

Ghostty terminal is a beautiful and productive piece of software from @mitchellh. I love its crisp font and simplistic aesthetics, and now I want to spend more time on the terminal.

[Vijay Panghal @vpanghal]

Attack of control planes. Running any cloud service now requires ten different consoles: cloud service, DB service, K8s service, auth service, and whatnot. #cloudzilla #CloudComputing #cloud

[Vijay Panghal @vpanghal]

Bah! My feed, it is drowning in AI nonsense! LinkedIn, bah, full of emojis—🧠 brains, 🛠 tools, 📝 scribbles! Too much, I say!

[Mohit Aron @mohitaron]

What a great fiscal quarter close for @Cohesity. Tons of new big enterprise logos, doubled our annualized revenue, amazing number of $1M+ dollar deals, and a phenomenal win rate against competitors. #killedit

[Cohesity @Cohesity]

[Press Release] Cohesity Raises $250 Million in Funding Round Led By SoftBank Vision Fund! Read the full announcement: https://t.co/aNIl30BmVY

[Shawn Bulbrook @ShawnBulbrook]

Cohesity scaled from 8 Nodes (200TB) to 256 Nodes (6 PB) on Microsoft Azure and the results were outstanding!!!

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[Cohesity @Cohesity]

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