Vineet Naik

Excited to share my "passion project" - It's a practice app for guitar players (in particular, but in theory should work for other instruments too). It has evolved from my own use case of getting better at the guitar and I hope others find it useful too.

I'm talking about cancellation in async rust at @IndiaRust conf! The talk will obviously start with an introduction to async rust cancellation, but I'll be covering things not usually seen in standard resources.

@vedang Stakeholders who don't understand trade offs b/w delivery speed & quality have always been unreasonable about deadlines before AI assisted dev as well. I think they will not just continue to be unreasonable, but have ridiculous expectations now. I'm not that positive about it.

I think we are still finding the "speed-up boundary", so to say. The current speed-up expectations are unreasonable, but it is also true that a lot more can be done in a week by someone who knows what they are doing. I've seen it and experienced it firsthand. All I'm asking for is to not be pushed unreasonably on deadlines. Being upfront about this, and communicating clearly is the critical skill that we need to master. Funnily enough, communicating clearly has always been the most important skill we need to master :P

The problem with AI today is that stakeholders, especially non-technical ones, expect us to deliver a month's work in 2 days. Is that doable? Yes, totally. Is such software maintainable? Absolutely not. The human in the loop who needs to maintain the software still needs time to understand the domain and the code. I'm seeing this across multiple clients at Unravel, it's assumed that understanding and taste just exists. It'll shake out in a few months hopefully, as more folks realize that code generation is not software engineering.

We are back with another edition of The Rust India Conference! It’s 2026 and this is the place where engineers come to talk about what it actually takes to ship Rust in production! #rustlang #rust

@chiragbarjatya She literally says "that's our car". But that's a tiny detail one can conveniently ignore for content/engagement. Also wonder why no one assumed the kid is 18+, he may have failed his exams twice. Wonder why the assumption instead was that the car was gifted..

They are my friends. They did not 'gift' him the car. They just gave him surprise that they got a new car. His kid won't even drive the car.

New blog post: Handling Rust errors elegantly - naiquev.in/handling-rust-…

If you’re writing opinions on whether to do code reviews, write tests, or any part of production lifecycles these days, you should have to disclose if you personally are part of a PagerDuty rotation

Built a simple tool to keep track of the time I spend on my freelance/consulting projects - github.com/naiquevin/cloc…. I use the clocking functionality in emacs org-mode which is where the input comes from. Nothing fancy but org-mode users may find it useful. #emacs #orgmode

@arpit_bhayani Mine is "How does being on-call feel like in your team/org?"

Whenever the interviewer asks, "Do you have any questions for me?", never skip this question. Here are 5 questions (in order of importance) that I have actually asked the interviewer to understand the company and role better... 1. What keeps you awake at night? [my default] 2. What new tech is the team experimenting with? 3. One company project that you are excited about? 4. An interesting work the team shipped recently? 5. Some company traditions that you enjoy? Each of the above questions covers one interesting aspect of the role and team. Pick one that is most important to you. I ask one of these questions because I am interested in innovation, culture, growth, dealing with failures, and decision DNA. Remember, it is important to ask questions in the interview for two reasons: first, it demonstrates your genuine interest in the role, position, and company; second, it allows you to get some super important insights about the role and company.

@_swanand ".. On the other hand, our burnout rate is high, for the same reason"

“Our burn rate is low because our tech team sits in India” Yeah, you’re ngmi

@ffssanie Safety + additional space

can someone from mumbai pls tell me what’s the point of putting a cage on ur windows

@measure_plan Here you go - pastebin.com/bLZeydjp. Needless to say it's an opinion so please take it accordingly.

thanks Vineet, yes would be happy to get any further feedback it's just using audio to detect the chords, the webcam element was just for fun the sync score is trying to figure out the "confidence" of the detected chords. i also noticed it's mostly around ~50%, seems it's not working well as is this was just a rough experiment, more stuff coming soon :)

i'm a lousy guitar player, so i vibecoded a DDR / guitar hero game to help me improve it detects what i'm playing, guides me through chord patterns, checks for accuracy, and tracks my score built with gemini and meyda audio analysis you can just build personalized software 🤘

I've maintained a moderately popular open source project in the past. It was already a difficult job. Can't imagine what it must be now with AI driven PRs and all.

@measure_plan Happy to connect if you're looking for honest review of the app (not the tech).

@measure_plan Nice work! I couldn't make sense of the sync score. It's always 40-50% for me if I target the orange line inside Hit zone. I also don't see the point of video input for this use case. Doesn't seem like it analyzing finger positions (detects same chord for different voicings).

If we are to assume that AI can eliminate the need for juniors, it can also eliminate the need for seniors to train juniors i.e. juniors can very well use AI to train themselves. Anyway, real learning will happen through first hand mistakes regardless of seniority or AI use.

@readswithravi East of Eden - Steinbeck Carry on Jeeves - Wodehouse Purvaranga (Marathi) - P L Deshpande

Have you ever read a book by an author that was so good it made you want to read everything else they've written?

Every time a bank has max characters limit for net banking password, I can't help thinking if it's being stored in a varchar(16) column. And what's up with banks disallowing copy-paste for passwords lately? Is there a demonstrated attack that shows it's a security risk?

The only AI generated code I don’t mind inheriting is if it’s in rust.

Good time to repost about dupenukem, a file deduplication tool I had written a couple of years ago - github.com/naiquevin/dupe…. I've set a reminder to run it every 6 months. Ran it today to reclaim just ~25 MB in total but good to know it still works and is somewhat useful!