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arjunrko

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arjunrko··on Show HN: Bracket – selfhosted tournament system
Great idea, would use it for local pick-up soccer games. Would actually use it for FIFA nights and poker games as well. It would be cool if you can add an aggregated stats and leaderboard page. Keep going back for glory.
arjunrko··on Show HN: My AI Native Resume
Cool idea and all. Definitely catches attention and shows familiarity. But how is this different from uploading a normal resume to an assistant and asking it questions?
arjunrko··on Ask HN: Should I stop pursuing a future career in software engineering?
Short answer: no, stick with the CS degree. A downturn or an LLM headline doesn’t erase the long‑run return on mastering how information actually moves through silicon. The coursework forces you to think in abstractions that outlive any single tool - memory models, distributed consensus, algorithmic trade‑offs. Those are the levers you’ll pull whether you are debugging a flaky startup backend or bolting an AI copilot onto a Fortune 500 workflow.

What changes is how you package that foundation. Sprinkle in some applied AI electives, tinker with open‑source models, learn to measure and mitigate their failure modes. Pair that with product sense from the incubator project, and you are not the engineer AI is replacing—you are the engineer shipping AI safely and profitably. That combination buys you optionality, which is the real stability you want for a future family.

arjunrko··on Compared the different silicon players for AI inference
I believe that a pretty high level of dependency will always remain but its in the hyperscaler's best interest to de-risk supply and also to use custom ASICS for their core core flows.
arjunrko··on Teen with 4.0 GPA who built the viral Cal AI app was rejected by 15 universities
Job well done wrt reach, ig.

There's this other guy who got kicked from Colombia for cheating on an Amazon LeetCode interview. Milked the episode really well and is an X influencer now.

arjunrko··on Teen with 4.0 GPA who built the viral Cal AI app was rejected by 15 universities
Came across essay excerpts on X - didn't read like he was very excited to go to college.