Nikhil sinha

This month is chaotic. • Resigned from my job • Started creating content on X (late, but better late than never • Moving from SDE → DevOps/SRE officially • Leaving Bangalore after 2 years Funny how life works. Sometimes many things have to go wrong before the right thing starts taking shape. People know me as an SDE. But behind the scenes, for ~1.5 years, I’ve been doing deployments, fixing VA points, handling infra-related work, and slowly moving closer to DevOps without realizing it. Looking for opportunities in DevOps / SRE. If you're in DevOps, SRE, Cloud, or Backend — let’s connect. New journey starts today.

@ThierryBorgeat Retail investors: "I'm funding humanity's future." The balance sheet: "You're funding accounts payable."

Oh, I forgot the best part. Months before the IPO, SpaceX took $17.5 billion of old junk debt from xAI and X and parked it on its own balance sheet through a $20 billion bridge loan. The terms? Repaid within six months of listing. So part of the $75 billion that retail and index funds just handed over is already spoken for. Not for Mars. Not for rockets. To clear debts piling up at Elon's other companies. You bought the rocket ship. You're on the hook for the loans. BEST. ENGINEERING. EVER.

@Hesamation almost 28% people used. WHHHAAATTTT oh they have G-Suit, make sense

ChatGPT has lost >50% of AI market share for the first time: ChatGPT: 46.4% Gemini: 27.7% Claude: 10.3%. the reality is way different outside the X bubble. consumers care most about what's accessible rather than which model is best. DISTRIBUTION IS EVERYTHING.

@thaiscbranco_ @CRV @AmplifyPartners AI solved the cost of creation. Now it's running into the cost of curation. The gap between "technically correct" and "actually good" is where most AI products still fail. If Taste Labs can make judgement measurable, that's a much bigger unlock than another model benchmark.

We’re excited to introduce Taste Labs. Our mission is to end AI slop. We’re building the data and infrastructure layer to give AI models and agents taste. And today we’re coming out of stealth, announcing our $18.5M seed funding, co-led by @CRV and @AmplifyPartners AI has nailed objective domains and made it easy to generate anything. But it still feels off. Now, the challenge is judgement. What fits, what feels like you, what’s GREAT. This requires turning a fuzzy, subjective domain into something we can measure and codify. We’re starting with design. There are two sides to cracking this, the foundation model layer and the agent layer: - We’ve already been working with the top frontier labs to evaluate and improve their models, crafting the right post-training data and RL environments. - We’ve also been working with app-layer companies to build the context and verification tools for their agents to produce better, more on-brand, more creative outputs. We want a future where AI feels right. If you’re passionate about this mission, join us!

@knlmsh is there any specific reason why ?

macOS should ban all electron apps and allow only apps built in Rust.

@noahhhlzl i want to mine but there are people who just grow their x far better than mine

hiring: someone to run our X account. part-time. $10K/month. I don't care about hours. I care about results. you need to: → actually live on the internet, not just post on it → be deep in AI news (not newsletter-deep, actually-there-deep) → have taken an account from 0→10 before, and can prove it if that's you → comment, I'll reach out. know a virality magician? tag them below. if we hire them, you get a $10K referral fee, minimum.

@thaiscbranco_ @CRV @AmplifyPartners sounds interesting

DeepSeek is proving that AI leadership isn’t reserved for Silicon Valley. While many chased closed ecosystems, DeepSeek bet on open-source research, long-term AGI work, and domestic innovation. A $50B valuation, a founder who kept control, and models that push the frontier despite chip restrictions. China isn’t just catching up in AI anymore. It’s building its own path.

DeepSeek takes the crown as China’s most valuable AI startup after a massive $7.4B raise at a $50B valuation. The unusual part is control: Liang Wenfeng, DeepSeek’s founder, held almost 90% of the company before the financing and invested around $3 B as the biggest contributor. DeepSeek’s bet is to keep pushing open-source models and AGI research, while also helping domestic chipmakers such as Huawei run powerful models despite U.S. chip limits. Other top disclosed investors : Tencent: about $1.5B CATL: about $740M China’s National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund: about $150M

First time using Composer 2.5, and I'm impressed. I've been using Codex 5.5 for a while, but surprisingly, Composer feels better for planning, architecture, and keeping context across larger tasks.

@T3chFalcon First we wrote code. Then we reviewed code. Soon we'll mostly supervise code. Origin isn't competing with GitHub. It's competing with the assumption that humans are the primary producers of software.

2023: Cursor launches. a VS Code fork with AI autocomplete. 2025: Cursor acquires Graphite. a code review startup. 2026: Cursor launches Origin. git hosting. a direct GitHub competitor. also 2026: SpaceX acquires Cursor through xAI. three years. VS Code plugin to GitHub competitor owned by Elon Musk. the pitch for Origin is genuinely interesting: GitHub was built for humans. Origin is built for agents. the demo showed 22.6 commits per second inside one repo. hundreds of thousands of clones and pushes per hour. because the assumption is that soon it won't be one developer committing code. it'll be hundreds of AI agents committing in parallel, branching, merging, and fixing failures simultaneously. Someone online said: "Cursor needs your code to train their models." You write code in Cursor. Cursor hosts it on Origin. Cursor owns a frontier AI model trained on code. Your code is now the training data for the AI that is replacing you. Microsoft owns GitHub. Microsoft owns the code of hundreds of millions of developers. SpaceX now owns Cursor. SpaceX now wants the code of hundreds of millions of developers.

Great Read if you want to read too then TL;DR it is 4743 pages long document docs.aws.amazon.com/pdfs/IAM/lates…

started my day with a good read

June 16 - 26 Done for the day kinda good day i would say started AWS, i have already worked with AWS but i never got the chance to deep dive into concepts and “why” and behind the code what is happening and all services and all if you are also on the same journey consider follow you will not regrets this i promise good night

@ns123abc The AI problem is no longer intelligence. It's economics.

BREAKING: Microsoft exploring DeepSeek over OpenAI and Anthropic as Copilot Cowork moves to usage-based pricing “We have users who do hundreds of tasks a week… the consequence is the costs can go very high...” Jevons paradox

Many beginners who are trying to learn AWS, this page either does not make sense to them or they are way too scared to fill in their billing details. Because somewhere they heard: *"AWS charged me $100."* But that's usually not how it works. When creating an AWS account, AWS asks for a debit/credit card mainly for identity verification and to prevent abuse (people creating hundreds of accounts). A few things to keep in mind: • AWS may place a small temporary verification charge (often around $1 or local currency equivalent) and later reverse it. • AWS does not instantly start draining money from your card the moment you add it. • The card is there to verify you're a legitimate user. • If you stay within the Free Tier limits, you typically won't be charged for eligible services. • The real danger isn't adding the card — it's launching resources and forgetting to monitor them. The lesson: Don't fear the billing page. Understand the billing model. Cloud is expensive when you're careless, not when you're learning. #AWS

@devops_nk looks dope though

Commands: 1) sl 🚂 → Steam locomotive when you mistype ls 2) asciiquarium 🐠 → Aquarium inside your terminal 3) cmatrix 💊 → Matrix-style digital rain 4) cowsay "Hello World" 🐄 → Talking ASCII cow 5) telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 🌌 → Watch Star Wars in ASCII art

Before AWS: 🏢 Buy servers ⚡ Manage power & cooling 🔧 Rack and configure hardware 💰 Pay upfront ⏳ Wait weeks or months to scale 1998 → Virtualization arrives 2006 → AWS turns infrastructure into an on-demand service Cloud didn't replace servers. It changed who manages them.

in grok now you can access cursor's composer

@ThisIsBhandari startups are fun but bit hectic tbh but learnings are great

Joining a pre-seed startup taught me more than any FAANG job. I wasn't just writing code. I was constantly talking to users. We shipped features every 2–3 days. I once spent hours perfecting drag and resize functionality for an analytics dashboard because I was convinced users would find it useful. Almost nobody touched it. That taught me a lesson I'll never forget: Customers don't care how cool a feature is. They care whether it solves their problem. Building products, getting feedback, and seeing real usage patterns taught me that product development is as much about deciding what not to build as it is about deciding what to build. That lesson alone made me a much better engineer.

Before AWS or any kind of public cloud, how did companies run applications? A brief history lesson (i promise i wont be boring) The old way was physical servers. If a company wanted to host an application, it had to buy actual hardware from vendors like IBM, HP, Dell, Cisco, etc., and place those machines inside its own data center. A data center wasn't just a room full of computers. It needed: • Servers • Network switches and routers • Cooling systems • Power backup (UPS, generators) • Fire suppression systems • Physical security • Dedicated operations teams The biggest problem? Servers were expensive and horribly underutilized. Imagine buying a server with 100 GB RAM and 100 CPU units. Your application only needs 1 GB RAM and 1 CPU unit. That means: Used: - 1% CPU - 1% Memory Idle: - 99% CPU - 99% Memory You've already paid for the entire machine, but most of it sits doing nothing. Now multiply that by: • 15 servers • 200 servers • 2,000 servers The waste becomes enormous. And it gets worse. Companies had to estimate future demand months in advance. If traffic suddenly increased: → Buy new hardware → Wait for procurement → Rack and cable servers → Configure networking → Deploy applications This could take weeks or even months. So most organizations overprovisioned infrastructure "just in case," creating even more waste. Then virtualization changed everything. Instead of one application per physical server, hypervisors allowed multiple virtual machines to share the same hardware safely. A single server could now host many workloads. Utilization improved dramatically. Public cloud providers like AWS took this idea to internet scale. Instead of buying servers: • Rent compute by the hour/second • Scale up in minutes • Pay only for what you use • Let AWS manage the hardware, power, cooling, and facilities Cloud wasn't just about renting servers. It was a solution to decades of underutilized hardware, slow provisioning, and massive capital expenditure. Understanding this history makes AWS, EC2, containers, and Kubernetes much easier to appreciate. Cloud is not magic. It's the evolution of infrastructure economics. #AWS

@benjamin_horne We're in a weird phase where AI feels less like a power tool and more like management. You spend less time writing code and more time reviewing, steering, validating, and correcting. Output goes up, but craftsmanship goes down. Productive? Usually. Satisfying? Not always.

The shittiest thing about AI as a SWE is that while it's not the 10x nitro-boost that all the AI hypebeast grifters on here claim it is, it *is* a net ~30% productivity gain (once you factor in all the review, code slop clean up, etc.), which is *just* enough of a boost where you cannot justify not using it. This is a letdown because using AI after years of learning to code without it is of course an ongoing humiliation ritual, (counterintuitively) *more* exhausting/draining than coding by hand, and way less enjoyable in general.