vishnugupta

Apparently it required someone with the personality and product taste of Jobs to rein in Ivy. Cook on the other hand being a logistics/operations guy didn’t have the similar skills and we ended up getting absolute shitshow of hardware products from apple in late 2010s.

Thankfully he was fired and sanity prevailed which coincided with Apple Silicon line professors. The MacBook Pro that was immediate predecessor to M1 series was by far Apple’s worst hardware. It was bad on nearly every count.

Can someone please eli5 this to a friend web developer? I read the abstract but couldn’t understand much.

> Did I or did they change?

I’d say both.

They ran out of novel things to say which is expected of anyone because there’s only so many non trivial things one could say. But then unlike normal people they didn’t stop talking because being rich they are bored and they want to be in the limelight all the time. So they end up talking nonsense.

You also changed, you are now wiser and have developed BS detector.

I can’t emphasize the importance of rule-5 enough.

I learnt about rule-5 through experience before I had heard it was a rule.

I used to do tech due diligence for acquisition of companies. I had a very short time, about a day. I hit upon a great time saver idea of asking them to show their DB schema and explain it. It turned out to be surprisingly effective. Once I understood the scheme most of the architecture explained itself.

Now I apply the same principle while designing a system.

Curious to know how popular they are in rest of the world, especially in the West. Anecdotally, I have seen literally zero people using them in India. So I'm really curious.

el el ems

> we had our own agents we just called them IC4/5

This is what bugs me the most. Those who are now at IC6/7 rose through the daily grind of coding and debugging from L1. But now that those jobs are getting automated how will someone rise to IC6!!? It’s as if first 10 rungs of a ladder are missing and only someone with an exceptionally good athleticism can jump up and start from 11th rung.

I think in the coming decades we will see IKEA effect in woodworking. Like it’s extremely easy to build cheap furniture whose individual parts are really compressed papers. There’s hardly any good carpenters left to do the real wood carpentry. Those who are left will cost a bomb (rightly so) and can only be afforded by rich people.

Out of curiosity I checked out the author’s resume and this is their current position. Oh the irony!!

I built significant pieces of the Copilot onboarding, purchasing, billing and settings flow. For eight months I headed up the Copilot anti-abuse effort. I then led the launch of GitHub Models, and am now working on other Copilot projects.

Absolutely not!

I run a business of giving out loan against stocks and mutual funds as collateral in India.

Please visit https://www.quicklend.in/ to know more.

> late 40s

This describes me nearly perfectly. Though I didn’t exactly burn out of coding, I accidentally stumbled upon being an EM while I was coding well and enjoying. But being EM stuck so I got into managing team(s) at biggish companies which means doing everything except one that I enjoy the most which is coding.

However now that I run my own startup I’m back to enjoying coding immensely because Claude takes care of grunt work of writing code while allowing me to focus on architecture, orchestration etc. Immense fun.

But on the other hand a (possibly dark) pattern is emerging where companies are asking you to upgrade to a higher plan to access MCP.

> Nobody's really bothering with compact phones anymore,

They need to show all that ad somewhere right?

iPhone 11 here. Chugging along just fine. Though after the latest liquid glass update the responsiveness has noticeably degraded. They've added lot of animations & moving elements which my poor old 11 doesn't seem to handle all that well.

> great software

Most software is mundane run of the mill CRUD feature set. Just yesterday I rolled out 5 new web pages and revamped a landing page in under an hour that would have easily taken 3-4 days of back and forth.

There are lot of similar coding happening.

This is the space AI coding truly shines. Repetitive work, all the wiring and routing around adding links, SEO elements and what not.

Either way, you can try to incorporate AI coding in your coding flow and where it takes.

I use it for my work. So i went it to remember everything about my business, website, the domain, which country we operate and on and on. It’s a ton of context which I don’t want to repeat each time.

Revolutionary or not it was very nice of the author to make time and effort to share their workflow.

For those starting out using Claude Code it gives a structured way to get things done bypassing the time/energy needed to “hit upon something that several of us have evolved to naturally”.

What you wrote is the definition of MITM.

Op and others are saying DNS poisoning is a popular way of achieving that goal.

That was a typo, sorry. Meant to write “thought process..”.

Continuing my example…LLM listed out a bunch of reasons such as advanced weapons, organizational structure, etc. I can then explore each of those areas further.

Or when I wanted to understand the raise of regional languages in India. Similar process as before…

My larger point was that LLMs now makes it possible to speed run this research curiosity of mine. This sort of a thing was next to impossible in traditional google/web search world.

Of course we need to fact check and eventually read the actual source.

I can somewhat relate to this in the sense that LLMs help me explore different paths of my thought process. The only way to do this earlier was to actually sit down and write it all out and carefully look for gaps. But now the fast feedback loop of LLMs speeds up this process. At times it even shows some path which I hadn't thought of. Or it firms up a direction which I thought only had vague connection.

To take one concrete example, it helped me get a well rounded picture of how British despite having such low footprint in India (at their peak there were about 150K of them) were able to colonise it with 300+ million population.

Title needs to be updated when the 1 July 2025 date. For a moment I thought JPM put it out in sort of a response to criminal charges against Jerome Powell, fed chair. It’s probably unprecedented? Wild times.

Ah such a shame to miss out mentioning the not so well known Radhanath Sikdar the first person, employed as a computer, to accurately calculate the height of Mount Everest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhanath_Sikdar

Rendered perfectly on my iPhone 11 Safari.

It’d be neat to have a dedicated site similar to killed by google.

> my anecdotal experience, it's moved to private, trust-based channels: iMessage, WhatsApp, email, face-to-face interactions

I can attest to this based on my circle of friends and acquaintances. Email not so much but yeah WA etc. I think people are done putting content that matters to them on public platforms. So all we see now on FB/Insta is memes, influencers or ads.

I read somewhere that it's not going to happen because the AI can't play gold with judges, senators, and congressmen over the weekend.

You are correct on all counts.

Absolutely! $50k is ₹45,00,000 which is at the 95th percentile of tech salary in India across all levels of seniority.

So yeah it’s not surprising that jobs are going offshore.

Haha this seems to be a great success of a party then!

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/bengaluru-news/police-...

> can encode logic in types in a way that’s impossible in most other languages

It’d be of great help if you could share an example of this along with an explanation why it’s impossible in a different language say one of Java/C++/Go

I’m really curious to better understand what aspects of China’s government would hurt your day to day life.

From what I read online the people there are free to rant and get things fixed. Their local government representative is held accountable if the people in his/her province are unhappy. Not too different from a typical democratic setup I guess? But this could be off because I don’t know anyone personally there.