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@Hi_Mrinal Super inspiring arc 👏 taking notes & channeling some of these ideas

My August Arc so far - Wrote an IPLD Benchmarking project (Still working on it) github.com/mrinalxdev/net… - Built a analytics data pipeline github.com/mrinalxdev/aet… - Analytics Engine using go, grafana, psql github.com/mrinalxdev/go-… - Wrote a SQL scratchpad for mounting a DB file github.com/mrinalxdev/sql… - Wrote Byte Pair Encoding from Scratch in C++ github.com/mrinalxdev/bpe… - Also learning, implementing and logging new concepts related transformers in PyTorch github.com/mrinalxdev/tra… - Using local Qwen3 : 1.7B model to build my own cursor from scratch in Python GUI github.com/mrinalxdev/vul…

@Hi_Mrinal Feels great watching you set the bar high

Had an interview today as a backend engineer for a startup based in San Marino ... For submission I built a Go daemon that speaks 64-byte UDP broadcasts with a 3-byte header + Bloom-filter subscription table, plus a Python asyncio SDK that publishes or subscribes in two lines of code.

@benhylak In the future, coding without heavy reliance on AI or even a cursor will be a rare skill. Building that ability now feels like preparing for an edge and I’m already practicing it with minimal AI involvement

i've met a lot of engineers one-shotted by cursor. feels like a drug. they can't think for themselves. they can't write tests. they can't explain their code. they can't write documentation. scary stuff.

@ayushunleashed Why don't you move out.. come back later...

Uhhhhhhhhh....... "Can you move to London?" "We want someone to attend conferences and hackathons in SF" "We are not hiring remote currently." "Where are you based of? ... ghosted" "We only want people onsite in Amsterdam" -- I don't like the rigidity of the world. -- 2 options for me: 1. Reduce the bar for quality of the companies. 2. Move to US/ Europe somehow. ( But I kinda don't want to change my country at this point of life )

@benhylak Hey I have some good projects ... Where can i apply?

we are interviewing around 15 people a day. most people are just... not good. so many cs graduates with 0 career experience, 0 side projects. i've never seen anything like it.

@ThePrimeagen In SF this offer is peanuts But if it was remote with even less salary, I'd join directly😂

boo this offer

@bobbyfijan @beaversteever I would join at half of it... If it's remote

@beaversteever With a 1 year vesting cliff. So it’s an offer for $60,000 for 364 days

average YC startup offer

Mandatory step after getting new device...

@_swanand Could you share the details, I would love to give it a try..

Rejected a candidate today because despite asking them to use LLMs as an aide (but not as the main programmer) and giving them time limits and a loosely constrained problem, they: 1. Could not plan properly and figure out ahead of time that they were going to run out of time 2. Did not use LLMs at all. 3. Could not finish building the system I asked them to build

@immasiddx Indeed, my parents recently gifted me a MacBook instead of an iPhone, and I’ve never been more productive.

As a parent, buying a laptop for your child is a way better decision than getting them a phone. > naturally promotes productivity > reduces distractions (nobody scrolls reels on laptops) > they’ll create more instead of consuming > develops essential life skills

This was in may 2024 ..... real 5G

Got myself a new MAC, what should I install first ??

30 → 50 → 80 → 120 → 200 That’s a tweet.

Crazy what one side project can unlock 🚪

@adnansahinovich @reactnative Just explored AsyncStorage during a recent take-home task for a hiring project, great for simple local storage, but not ideal for frequent writes or synced state In those cases, something like Redux Persist or SQLite worked better

When you wouldn’t use AsyncStorage in @reactnative and why?

Lexical search is surface-level. Semantic search goes deeper with matching meaning, not just words If you’re building search or AI products, read about embeddings and cosine similarity You’ll level up fast elastic.co/search-labs/bl…

@Hi_Mrinal Dove into semantic search learning how vectors can help match meaning, not just keywords. Before this, I only knew about lexical search, so this shift in approach is really eye-opening

Did Mathematics today specially vectors > Find groups of similar sentences > euclidean distance calculations > vectorization using scikit > Distance Heatmap

@hijunedkhatri Thanks for sharing!

added these roles in the last 48 hours 1. engineering manager - delhi 2. qa engineer - delhi 3. data engineer - blr 4. backend engineer - delhi 5. fullstack engineer - remote 6. product designer - mumbai 7. backend engineer - blr 8. qa engineer - mumbai details here: jobs.clanx.ai/?source=jtw

@amritwt @cursor_ai just used my free request on cursor didn’t do anything after that… broke life chose me

.@cursor_ai's ultra is so peak but i dont understand why is this a cost when i get like unlimited requests anyway?

Learned chunking, embeddings, vector search, semantic ranking Built the whole thing end-to-end