SDE @paasainvest (YC 24), immature gopher
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some of my thoughts, mostly written by me, not AI language should be easier to read.
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to all my followers who believe in this, sincerely - it's bullshit.
this is an era of unprecedented technology and with it comes unknown challenges, it is like a new world map in a game where only paid promotional beta testers have been before.
what is the value of discovering a counterfactual now when people have stopped reading everything?
how reliable is this tech where you chat with a bot and it hallucinates 3 times a day but you never know on what? what is the cost of discovering such bugs late for your projects?
what is the cost of discovering problems/bugs when entire world is wearing the same glasses and everyone has same blindspots?
"there is no technical moat" - yeah, for you.
ofc you would think that if you are someone who has always just wanted to get by their day and do nothing beyond what is forced on you, then yeah, sure.
but if you tell a guy like me "everyone is offloading to the same machine to think, using the same overabstracted superficially verified systems, where agentic PR count is a porn to be consumed by those who think they are doing something". if you tell a guy like me that, i would say there is now an opportunity to be hercules amongst men. there is an opportunity to really use this tech around you to imitate what fabrice bellard could have pulled off in your niche if he cared as much as you.
there is an insane opportunity to be unlimited, your moat is starting your morning where others have stopped caring about something.
I mean sure you should not get so much out of practice that you get completely crippled without ai but "writing absolutely every line of code by hand" is just not feasible, productive or even desired by companies now.
cont.
if you are a junior engineer and not writing absolutely every line of code by hand, and thinking out logic on a notebook you are absolutely cooked, just leave the industry now.
your AI should only hint you "looking at your code, i think there is a better way to do it, you should read xyz article" type of responses are the only thing that the AI should do for you.
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"impossible standards"
every time something like this happens i am deeply disgusted by the amount of vulgarity displayed in the name of nationalism.
every such episode makes the task of anyone trying to do good a hundred times harder. you celebrate incompetence and deserve to suffer its consequences not others.
Now people should celebrate. An Indian company exits SSL/TLS business. Your witch-hunt and demand for impossible standards has worked.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Generating private keys with more than 3 digits for a world-trusted root certificate authority are not impossible standards. Badly generated keys may endanger - and have - the whole internet by breaking the most important encryption protocol.
theregister.com/security/2026/…
cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/w…
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BREAKING: eMudhra exits SSL/TLS certificate business, blames social media instead of incompetence for the same
courrpt boomer babus really are the biggest curse man, can't believe they are running things of crtical importance like this
"some reputational risk"
dkfm man, can't even do the basic job they were supposed to do competently
made india a joke at a global level now
Pushkar Aggarwal retweeted
Working in the office with the right team and right energy is priceless.
Sure being remote once in a while is okay, but shipping in person is worlds better. Makes you actually feel like a team
been reading the designing data intensive application and just completed chapter 3
pretty good so far, gives a broad overview of many different topics like databases, non functional req so we can get familiar.
expecting this to get much more detailed now from chapter 4
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wrote a little blog summarizing all the robotics and intelligent systems projects i have done in past 2 years with my friends.
this summarizes all the things that worked, lessons i have learned and what i think is worth pursuing ahead.
link below
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No one will support you when you need it the most. But the moment you prove them wrong, suddenly, everyone wants to work with you :)
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Today, I'm launching the V2 of ihatefiles.com, a completely new UI, redesigned from the ground up with usability as the top priority, following first principles. So many improvements, a much better experience, and a lot more to explore :)
- Video trims, crops & frame-rate changes on your GPU via WebCodecs: 3–5× faster
- FFmpeg video encodes 2–3× faster (x264 “veryfast” preset)
- Multi-threaded WebAssembly engine
- Batch image conversion in parallel: 3.5× faster
- Parallel work scales to your device’s cores and memory
- No more slowdown when the tab is in the background
- The video engine pre-loads the moment you add a file
- ORMBG background removal and Spleeter stem splitting, running on WebGPU
- AVIF output using your browser’s own AV1 encoder, with transparency
- Animated WebP (4× smaller than GIF) + per-frame GIF palettes
- HDR → SDR tone mapping, so iPhone video isn’t washed out
- HDR detected automatically and handed to tone mapping
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