V J Bhatt

FWIW, I think the best managers are the ones who are the best ICs as well. The rest of the team is forced to level up as a result and the manager never loses touch with the tech/product/community. I never really believed in the role of just "people managers".

i love how people are saying "if we write a sufficiently detailed specification, the agent can write all our code" do you know what writing a sufficiently detailed specification that deterministically maps to what a computer's actions is? it's coding

Claude routinely writes code that takes hours to run, when I look at it, there's something that should be O(logN) but Claude wrote an algo that is O(N^2). I prompt it with something like "your algo is too inefficient, improve it". After hours it comes back with an algo that is like O(N^3). Then I look at it for like a minute, figure it out. When I explain to it the correct algo it always blows Claude's "mind". "WOW! This is so much better." The more I use AI the more impressed I am with my own intelligence. Some day Claude will convince me I reached AGI.

Mamata loses in Bhabanipur, with a margin of 15k. The second loss to Subhendu Adhikari, in 2 different seats. The cherry on the cake. Absolute decimation of this evil regime.

Are there shocks in Beijing when POTUS visits India/Japan/Korea? Are there shocks in Moscow when POTUS visits EU? Why should there be shocks in Delhi? How can a country like India progress if the commentariat has the self confidence of a high schooler on his first day in college?

Docker solved the 'it works on my machine' problem by making it not work on anyone's machine equally.

Kubernetes was built to solve Google-scale problems. You have 47 users.

It’s because they are usually so far removed from the day to day work. They see this magic box that can produce units of work and get enamored by its potential, and the fact that they no longer have to tell someone else to do it. The issue is that most of the time they’ve also forgotten completely how to review IC work. The result is psychosis

Capitalism creates so there’s more for everyone. Socialism is the weaponization of greed and envy making everyone worse off.

No snow will be left by next weekend at many ski resorts in California below 8,000 feet as the worst March heatwave in state history arrives. The base elevation of every ski resort will be 70°F+ for at least 4 straight days next week. Even Mammoth is forecast to hit 75°F next week. Expecting most ski resorts to close in the next 2 weeks, when snow conditions should be at their peak. Instead we have August-like heat in March. When California's official April 1 snowpack measurement comes in, don't be surprised if it's one of the worst on record since 1950.

The longer I work in corporate, the more I realize… nobody actually knows what “strategy” means

Los Angeles is so bad that you will get stabbed charging your car at the city library by a homeless man, and when an ambulance comes to save you, ANOTHER homeless man steals the ambulance while they’re tending to you at the scene leaving you no way to get to the hospital, and you die. Sounds like South Africa…

Make the Microsoft CEO search for an email on Outlook

California car insurance is high because the state considers it “inequitable” to prosecute dangerous and uninsured drivers. These drivers significantly increase the danger on roads, the cost of which must be borne by normal people who actually follow rules and have insurance.

The stock market waiting to open on Monday

Our intern just asked me why we don't use Kubernetes. I said because we don't need Kubernetes. He said everyone uses Kubernetes. I said everyone TALKS about using Kubernetes. Most companies are running Docker containers on three servers and calling it a day. We have 40 employees. Our entire infrastructure runs on AWS with auto-scaling groups. It works fine. Kubernetes is designed for companies running thousands of services across hundreds of servers. We have twelve services. But he read that Kubernetes is "industry standard" so now he thinks we're behind. This is what happens when people learn from tech Twitter instead of actual experience. They think every company is Google-scale and needs Google-scale solutions. We don't need Kubernetes. We need our MySQL database to stop running out of connections because someone wrote a query that doesn't close properly. But that's not exciting. Nobody writes blog posts about "I fixed a connection leak." They write about "How we migrated to Kubernetes and saved millions" even though the migration cost more than they saved. I told the intern he should learn why tools exist before learning the tools themselves. He looked disappointed. He wanted to put Kubernetes on his resume.

What this NCR University did at the AI Impact Summit event is something students have been doing for years. Go near any engineering college, and you’ll see businesses thriving that build and sell final-year projects for students. For non-engineers: Project in engineering is basically the mandatory final-year project where you apply what you’ve learned to solve a problem or build something functional in order to graduate. These shops charge anywhere between ₹5,000 to ₹15,000 to make a project for you. The student then memorises a few basic concepts, prepares a file, gives a presentation, and gets their degree. This time, the university took a similar approach. They procured a Chinese robot, built a presentation around it, set up a stall, and presented it as their own invention. The only mistake was the setting. This time, it was not a city level or admission focused event where private universities try to attract students. It was an international AI summit. Wrong timing, and they got caught. The funny part is that there are probably three or four more universities doing similar things. But since the whistle has been blown, many of them got away!

Corporate life is realizing your job requires more emotional regulation than technical skill

The greatest rebrand in enterprise software history is calling consulting revenue “forward deployed engineering.”