Navin Pai

@sagarkamat All hype cycles are not the same though. AR/VR continues to be a "5 years away" tech, and IMO will continue to be until there's something that breaks fundamental physics/material tech. x.com/navinpai/statu…

The number of hype-cycles we've lived through in a decade is too damn high. Frankly, saddens the ever-optimist in me.

@Kenu73 @makemytripcare @makemytrip . @makemytrip is horrible, was in exactly the same situation a few weeks ago where they kept me in limbo for nearly an entire day. I went and booked alternate arrangements assuming this is cancelled only for them to then send a ticket and claim "This is timely delivery". Scum.

Hey @makemytripcare @makemytrip I booked a flight this morning, this has been timed with another PNR and its very important that the same flight and route is used. However its been hours, payment was successful and was acknowledged by MMT, booking shows confirmed but PNR hasn't been issued. This sector is a pricey one, can you please ensure that I get the tickets issued? Or if not immediately cancel and refund 100% of the amount. I can't be waiting in limbo for hours. I did contact customer care but they have given me another few hours of timeline. Please help.

On the other hand, when I had similar issues with some other booking on @Cleartrip, they had human support that gave us clear details on where the issue is (OTA vs Airline), what the next steps are, and when we'll get refund. Very likely stopping using @makemytrip for flights.

For context: A flight of mine (ID: NN2AIVTO19927240107) shows "Booking Confirmation Awaited" for 12+ hours. I have no idea if it's proceeding, or failing, or getting refunded. Communication nada Just AI bot going in "Ticket cannot be cancelled since it's not assigned yet" loop

Indian OTAs are quite notorious for horrendous customer support, but the king is, by far, @makemytrip /@makemytripcare ... Every support avenue is stupid decision-tree chatbots that don't offer any help other than go in circles and not even offer human agent support. 😠😠

"Why would anyone live in Delhi with air that's as toxic as breathing 15 cigarettes daily" said the Bengaluru guy on his way to work on Outer Ring Road which takes him 1.5 hours each way daily, during which he breathes in more dust than a Dyson vaccuum cleaner

If you are selling an "enterprise-grade" observability tool, and your homepage has been like this for the last 3+ hours, then I'm sorry to break it to you, but #yagmi

And atleast @BJP4India now and then decides to arrest/punish criminals from opposition parties. @INCIndia govts are incapable of even controlling these other-party "chillar" goons in their state, forget about any action against the larger ones (or those in their own party)

For context, Patil has 20x-ed his "declared" assets in 15 years yet his son won't pay 100 rupees for toll because he believes it's his birthright to travel toll-free. "Dehaat" is truly a mindset that money can't solve (but we all knew that already)

Reason #1471 why I hate junior engineers blindly using GenAI coding tools to write code. Every second PR I see is like this now. 🤦😢 If there's one advice I keep giving junior engineers, it's PLEASE don't outsource "thinking" to an LLM. Use it as a copilot, not as a crutch😮‍💨

Happy Diwali to Bryan Mbeumo and Harry Maguire and nobody else😄🎇🎆 #LIVMUN #GGMU

As a software engineer, it's very important to learn about Gall’s Law, which states that complex systems cannot be created successfully from scratch. In reality, even large systems, such as Netflix, Google, or Facebook, have started small and built incrementally over the course of decades.

@anirudhpandaaa . @congratstothe 😅😂

My roommate is really living in 2050😭

Everyone has varied definitions of "happiness" until the first time your kid randomly smiles at you like this, and instantly all the previous definitions feel like they were just rough drafts. #parenthood #facts

@sagarkamat 1) In the "long term", yes it does. 2) "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" - John Maynard Keynes Both things hold true IMO.

Sometimes I wonder if much of the traditional investing wisdom about stock markets even holds true in a world of r/wallstreetbets, twitter and Robinhood. Does cashflow, intrinsic value and sound corporate governance even matter in a stock market driven by FOMO and dopamine hits?

@abhi9u @realoxmiqlabs @RajaXg Super cool... Congratulations Abhinav! 👏🙌

Professional update: I’ve joined @realoxmiqlabs, a new startup led by the legend @RajaXg, working across the AI hardware/software stack. I’ve spent the past couple of years exploring CPython internals and performance engineering, and a part of Oxmiq’s work overlaps closely with those areas. Excited to be part of the journey and to learn from a truly stellar team.

Showing my age here but I remember when the original template was OSX - Windows - Linux where OSX was seen as an expensive toy for non-techies, Windows were normies, and Linux users were manually patching wifi/sound drivers, lkms and GRUB entries on a not-so-infrequent basis 🧙‍♂️

@abhi9u Congratulations Abhinav! 🥳 It's been great to see your in-depth articles get the love they deserve, especially over the last 6-8 months... Keep the deep-dives coming, you are a unique voice among in the tech writers I follow! 👏👏

Two years, 75+ articles, and 1M+ views later… Still doesn’t pay my rent, but hitting this milestone despite all the challenges of running an indie publication from India, it feels big. Thank you for reading, supporting, sharing, and being part of this journey💛

How I feel after launching 5 instances of Claude Code..