Vedang Manerikar

Note to self: Understanding comes from getting your hands dirty!

I want to read more books like Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar -- a rare and riveting exception that's unputdownable from start to finish.

Please recommend thrillers (Indian) to me!

Indian writing in English: the authors who write well lack the imagination to captivate the average reader (like me).

And the folks who have the imagination write the most insipid 6th standard English.

Where are the great Indian thrillers?

Atharva, this is unbelievably, incredibly cool!

Also, I totally agree with that post!

Andrej Karpathy on the YCombinator startup school stage talking about my AI-assisted coding blog post

I was seeing @karpathy.bsky.social's Software 3.0 talk, as one should.

Surreal to see him recommend my writing to make a point on AI-assisted coding

"Is that me on TV??" moment

The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that i...

Why do some have a shit time with LLMs for programming while others love it?

To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.

People like to be contrarian and say things like Langda is the best mango. Ignore them.

Even if Hapus did not exist in this world, Kesar and Payari are both better. As is Banganpalle and Gulabkhas.

Hapus is king.

There, that's my spicy take for the day.

It's interesting how the major LLM API vendors are converging on the following features:

- Code execution: Python in a sandbox
- Web search - like Anthropic, Mistral seem to use Brave
- Document library aka hosted RAG
- Image generation (FLUX for Mistral)
- MCP

MIstral today […]

Gemini 2.5 Pro is now my goto architect model with Aider.

Editor model remains Sonnet 3.7

YouTube video by Kunal Kamra Are We 🇮🇳 Indians Scientific? | Nope ft. Gauhar Raza | Episode 001

What an absolutely beautiful interview! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPLF...

- What is Science?
- What is non-Science?
- What is the difference between Science and Technology?
- Fundamentalism and Science!

Dr Raza is a treat to listen to.

The amount I learned in this process made me a complete Git convert, and possibly set me up with a lifetime's love for tooling.

I love Git. Happy 20th birthday you magnificent beast!

In 2008, I joined Symantec. My team used CVS. After a full year of using Git, i wasn't going to go back.

So I spent nights and weekends working to setup the git-cvs bridge on cygwin. The team would continue using CVS, and I would continue using Git, and none would be the wiser!

Early 2007, we were lucky enough to get @kedarsovani.x.com as a mentor (Go Dreamz group!)

He introduced us to git. We had no idea this was a "hot new thing". We didn't know what DVCS meant. We just absolutely loved what it unlocked for us. Forever grateful to Kedar for this.

But we didn't know anything about version control and would write code in folders "opus_final", "opus_latest", "opus_final_final" and so on.

Inevitably, we took the wrong version with us to the competition and failed.

That's when we knew we needed to get serious about version control.

My Git story: the year was 2006. @jiteshs_.x.com and I were participating in a bunch of coding competitions.

For PICT's OPUS, we built a file-splitting program based on Hamming codes, to move around large files on floppy disks. It was beautiful.

Questions that made me cackle :

- "How much money should companies contribute per-dev to OSS?"
- "How are Indian devs perceived in the OSS world? How to fix this?"
- "How much of your technical success has genuinely been about merit versus who you knew or pure luck?"

Ouch!

Some bangers coming my way, for the panel:

- "Does HR care, or even understand, when the candidate has strong open-source contributions?"
- "In today's AI-enabled world, what key skills would you focus on that most CS grads are ignoring?"

Send more!

So, the "Career Growth and Open-source" is happening tomorrow at #PuneFOSS!

I'll be moderating the discussion, and the Panel is
@_svs_.x.com, @vishweshji.x.com, and @AmitaMirajkar.x.com!

Send in all the tough Career questions that are plaguing you! No question is Taboo!

[DM me!]

I travel by Pune Metro regularly, and stand in queue like a sensible person.

People crowd at the yellow line to jump into the train. They won't even let people get down from the train first.

How hard is it to stand in line? Why are we like this?

The Singapore trip was amazing.

I've been to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok previously, and assumed that's what SG would be like. It was much better!

As a friend put it:

KL is ahead of Mumbai by a large distance. The distance between SG and KL is bigger than that.

Has anybody used Sprint Planning in a way that has worked for them? Where they felt -- "This has actually added value to my work!"?

If yes, what did you do differently? Trying to keep my bias aside and learn.

Bluesky is so unbearably slow that only sheer hatred and contempt of X is keeping it alive.

Sure. I haven't logged into Slack in a while, and don't have it at work.

Let me message you on clojurians Slack once I'm back home.

Other than @ai4bharat.x.com, what are the great Indic language datasets?

More importantly, how does one go about contributing to these language datasets?

Curating the datasets and building projects around these are a great way for anyone to get started in AI projects!

I would absolutely love to discuss it informally with the group!

In fact, I'd love feedback and some general brainstorming.

Let me know how!

I'm loving all the "deep dive into MCP" posts on Twitter, Mastodon, Linkedin because they are solving the social issues around the legitimacy of MCP.

Adoption is everything!

Wow, there is an incredible vLLM meet happening in Singapore on 3rd April! www.sginnovate.com/event/limite...

It's their first Asia Developer Day. I wish I'd known about this event when planning my trip.

vLLM is a super cool project!

Hi Bluesky! I'm going to be in Singapore over the weekend (29th, 30th March)

If you are around, DM me and let's meet!

If there is an AI meetup you think I should attend, please let me know!

Love it! Just what I was looking for!

GitHub - unravel-team/mcp-clojure-sdk: A Clojure SDK to create MCP servers (and eventually clients) A Clojure SDK to create MCP servers (and eventually clients) - unravel-team/mcp-clojure-sdk

A video would speak louder than this thread, and I'll shoot one when time permits.

Until then, do check out: github.com/unravel-team...