Soumendra Daas

Anthropic CEO (Dario Amodei): "Coding is going away first, then all of software engineering." What do you think about this?

"We have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one is working"

If you have NPM package axios in your dependencies you need to make sure it's pinned to a known safe version, sounds like there's another supply chain attack in play

Jim Hacker: Humphrey, we have to do something about Iran. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Prime Minister, the government is already doing a great deal. Jim Hacker: Such as? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Monitoring developments, coordinating with allies, reviewing contingency plans and expressing concern. Jim Hacker: That all sounds like nothing, Humphrey. Sir Humphrey Appleby: On the contrary, Prime Minister. In diplomacy it is vital to appear active without becoming involved. Jim Hacker: The Americans are bombing things, the Iranians are firing missiles, the Strait of Hormuz is practically closed and we’re… appearing active? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Precisely. Jim Hacker: Innocent people are dying, Humphrey! Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes, Prime Minister. That is why the Foreign Office is drafting a very strongly worded statement about it. Jim Hacker: A statement won’t stop a war. Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, Prime Minister, but it will ensure that we are on record as having been extremely concerned while it was happening. Bernard Woolley: If I may, Prime Minister — the Cabinet Office has identified six possible courses of action. Jim Hacker: Good! What are they? Bernard Woolley: We can condemn the escalation, call for restraint, urge negotiations, support our allies, assist defensive operations or participate directly. Jim Hacker: And what do they recommend? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Supporting our allies. Jim Hacker: That sounds suspiciously like participating. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Oh no, Prime Minister. Participating means fighting. Supporting merely means allowing others to fight from places that technically belong to us. Jim Hacker: Humphrey, if Iranian missiles hit one of our bases, we’ll be in the war anyway! Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes, Prime Minister, but we shall have entered it with the invaluable diplomatic advantage of being surprised. Bernard Woolley: It’s generally considered the safest way to enter a war, Prime Minister. Jim Hacker: How on earth can that be safe? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Because if the war goes badly, we can say we never meant to join it. And if it goes well, we can say we were there all along.

Using Claude Code has a weird side effect: You don't just get more productive, you actually want to work more. There's something addictive about watching a product being born in real time in front of your eyes. "One last feature" after "one last feature" and it's already past 3am.

Mumbai and Bangalore outsourcing firms are scaling like I've never seen Infosys added 47,000 engineers in the last 9 months. TCS hiring 2,100 per week. Wipro opened 8 new delivery centers since January. American companies discovered something: Senior engineer in Austin making $180k can be replaced by two L4s in Hyderabad making $18k each plus AI tooling The quality gap closed overnight. Indian teams with Cursor and Claude are shipping features indistinguishable from SF teams at 85% cost savings Accenture's Bangalore office went from 12,000 to 31,000 headcount while their US operations dropped 6,200 people The arbitrage is insane. American mid-level making $140k replaced by Indian senior making $28k who's more productive because they actually use the AI tools instead of complaining about them Cognizant told their US clients: "Same deliverables, same timelines, 70% cost reduction" and enterprise buyers said yes to everything One Fortune 500 moved their entire platform engineering team offshore in October. 23 American engineers averaging $165k replaced by 31 Indian engineers averaging $24k The Indian teams are hungrier. They're learning the AI tools faster. They're not bitter about "being replaced by robots" - they're using the robots to replace American engineers HCL hired 15,000 people in Q3 alone specifically for "AI-augmented development" contracts American engineers spent two years debating whether Copilot would make them obsolete Indian engineers spent two years mastering Copilot to make American engineers obsolete

there's an AWS outage in me-central-1 because it got bombed

Indian Twitter going from war experts to cricket experts for the India vs West Indies match.

Very little about software engineering has changed over past last three months. A great deal has changed about coding, not unlike when we saw the rise of high order programming languages and compilers, the difference today being that the number of developers is far larger and distribution channels are such that the velocity and breadth of change is far greater. The entire history of software engineering is one of raising the level of abstraction.

We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.