vish
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vish
@vishctx
• research scientist at @meta • rust developer writing c • work on Linux kernel • dm me if you are building on ai agents or infra!
bay area Katılım Eylül 2015
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It is also the fact that some organizations don’t need the development velocity that Claude Code brings. It’s not better than an average engineer in terms of skill, and the only thing it offers is speed compared to a developer manually typing.
Non tech companies usually don’t ship a lot of features per year, neither do their customers have capability to absorb/grok those changes even if shipped.
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@ponnappa It is not just supervisor ignorance but also supervisor capability gap.
Not every manager of an engineer can replace that guy simply with Claude Code + coffee + sleepless nights themselves.
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Enterprises are now imo primarily bottlenecked on decision makers who haven't grokked this
Paras Chopra@paraschopra
Been wondering lately how many jobs in the digital economy are hanging by their supervisor’s ignorance of what Claude Code is capable of.
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@ivanburazin There’s multiple subreddits of people just browsing Zillow or Redfin listings. They’re never going to buy, bud, view or even email asking for details on any of them, but just look at houses!
It was wild when I discovered it!
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I recently heard an a16z partner on a podcast say "The average person doesn't want to save time. They want to waste time."
It kinda fucked my mind.
I never understood this. I don't use YouTube browse features. Don't scroll feeds. Don't go down rabbit holes. Just what do I need → get it → leave
Zero tolerance for wasted time. But it seems that's not how 99% of humans work.
They want to scroll through shopping sites. They want to click random videos. They want the browse interface.
Text-field-only UIs won't dominate because only Sama and Elon types prioritize pure efficiency.
Everyone else wants to scroll, browse, and waste their time. Entertainment disguised as productivity.
All the more reason why AI won't kill traditional interfaces.
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Note @ankrgyl said run.
Nobody wants to maintain five 9s on their own. That is a PITA. Managed services are still defensible
Ankur Goyal@ankrgyl
good things to learn right now: * how to run complex infra * how to wield LLMs (accuracy, speed, cost) * product design 101
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lol wtf maybe i should teach myself about sandboxes next
jytan@jyt4n
Went down a rabbit hole and optimized a single-host (local) Firecracker sandbox control plane from p95 2.72s baseline -> 59ms time-to-interactive (create + exec) - no pre-warmed VM pools. Still room to push + figure out deployments/scale, but has been super fun & learned a lot!
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sooo is CPU demand due to scaling RL envs and inference sandboxes priced in yet?
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Ironically, I think QA engineers became a lot more valuable today. Whereas a couple years ago, it was a shrinking profession
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@_Felipe Agree. Honestly I take great offense in statements such as these. That’s like saying with generative AI, taste is now important in arts/music. It wasn’t before?!
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Nonsense, taste has always been a core skill. It’s just easier to see now.
Greg Brockman@gdb
taste is a new core skill
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long distance relationships suck because you think you moved past the times where you have to see your husband off to battle until you have to see your boyfriend off to the airport
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@ivanburazin I definitely agree with the sooner part, especially after seeing OpenClaw and the likes. What I am curious about is in the long run. Running a headless browser takes much lower resources (cpu, memory etc) than running these device use agents.
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@vishctx I used to align with your thoughts, but the truth of the matter is, we will sooner have agents that are capable for computer use than we will get to transferring all knowledge work software to headless mode.
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Android sandboxes make a compelling case for themselves.
1/ Many services are mobile native/simply work better on mobile
Your AI agents need WhatsApp (messaging), DoorDash (ordering food), banking apps, social media, and almost every other mobile first service
2/ Devs building Android apps need AI coding environments
Someone building "Cursor for Android" needs sandboxes that can run Android to test/build apps like these
Agents need to operate in every environment humans do:
- Linux (most common for dev work)
- Windows (for financial services, enterprise tools)
- Android (for mobile apps & mobile first services)
They can function as digital knowledge workers across all platforms only when they have access to the full stack.
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Building software was never about the code itself, but a sequence of architectural and business decisions expressed through code. The real risk of offloading that final step to an AI agent is losing the steering on how those subtle choices are interpreted. @margaretstorey hits the nail on the head with her post on Cognitive Debt and it serves as a warning that losing the "theory" of our programs turns our systems into black boxes we can't control.
margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/0…
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@ivanburazin winehq.org
What if you had a Windows VM in a Linux VM running on FreeBSD host?
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Everyone assumes sandboxes are just Linux CPU boxes.
But if foundation model companies are training AI on financial services work (which happens on Windows), how can you do RL training for those tasks on Linux?
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life update:
im joining @NousResearch to work on agents and RL in the post-training team next month!
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