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Senpai has taken the words out of my mouth and put them on the page.

That's true for a junior engineer, but the more senior engineers should be given a view into the organization's priorities and business challenges.

I have this set up on my blog www.ashwinmenon.com

You can inspect and see the JS. There are a few others doing this too!

Yes, vibe coding is SO good for allowing programmers to write those scripts that would have been too tedious to do pre-2022.

Getting users is the real challenge unfortunately! I'm experiencing the same with my trivia app.

It's hard to know whether the blame should lie with the friend or YouTube

Which LLM does this use? I'm guessing this sends client data to 3P servers?

How do you get that nice UI?

Love it, bookmarked! The animation adds another layer of strategy to jigsaw!

I've found that one of the best use-cases is to create simple tools. Similar to what simonw does. I've done so here: https://www.ashwinmenon.com/clean_logs/ or more descriptively here: https://www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/thoughts/2025-12-04-are-we... (at the bottom). LLMs are really good at coming up with code from scratch, and getting a lot of the boilerplate out of the way. If you want changes though, it helps to be a programmer and be familiar with the stack.

I've also created a more real "app" at https://www.hunchle.com, which is a trivia app. It was a real challenge since LLMs hallucinate all over the place, and given labs are benchmaxxing, it gives me a real good idea for how good LLMs really are.

He's a complicated figure. He has done so much good as well. EVs in the US and reusable rockets owe a lot to him. OTOH, so does the cesspool that is X.

It's because of selection bias. In the older vehicles, customers won't turn on autopilot if they think it won't handle the situation. So, they turn it on highways and easier paths.

Gukesh, the current world champion, did not use engines for analysis until very late. I think until after he became a GM.

I found Immune a drag. Really enjoyed Cells At Work though!

Not sure what all the other comments are about, but I think this is great! Would be interesting to see if this can be done with a cheaper keyboard too

I saw a video stating that they couldn't compete once the main carriers introduced "basic economy" and the like, which brought their prices significantly closer to Spirit.

Any hope for Indian immigrants on H1-B to get a green card? There are over 1 million immigrants affected by this.

Those who like this may also like "Command Line Efficiency": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXuXij68DtE

I would expect this to update all branches when I do `git pull --rebase` but looks like it doesn't do that?

Does this work with `git pull --rebase`?

If someone licenses an impersonator's voice and it gets very close to the real thing, that feels like an impossible situation for a court to settle and it should probably just be legal (if repugnant).

Does that mean if cosplayers dress up like some other character, they can use that version of the character in their games/media? I think it should be equally simple to settle. It's different if it's their natural voice. Even then, it brings into question whether they can use "doppelgangers" legally.

What does "marginal utility of money" mean? Is the person with the lowest "marginal utility of money" the CEO?

How many enter?

Used to mean a non-manager. I agree it's a nonsense term.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/435/

Kotlin is less verbose, has better null safety and mutability is clearer.

The only category I would say is objectively "better" is Java has the best IDEs out of _any_ language.

Kotlin was made by the people behind IntelliJ. I'm not sure I understand your point.

This is a scam. It's a way to extract more value out of you than what they are paying you for (i.e. paying you for an E5 level, while making you do E6 work).

A lot of Indian cities have built a subway in the past 20 years. Compared to the US you can see what can be done when it's needed.

www.ashwinmenon.com

The most useful article is probably the one on personal finance, as lots have told me it cleared up a lot of confusion for them: https://www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/activities/2017-01-30-a-gu...

These two posts on tech interviews are also quite useful to understand the industry and increase your chances of landing a job: https://www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/thoughts/2022-01-21-tech-i...

https://www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/thoughts/2022-02-10-tech-i...

Please do let me know if you give it a read!