Amitav Khandelwal (@AmitavK) profile picture

Building https://nitter.gq/t.co/hy2ddnQx8D. Ex- ValarTech, @getnuo, @staples

Mumbai, India
Joined March 2010
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Felt this while I was training for Hyrox, and felt the lack of motivation right after too. Signed up for a run today
The single fastest way to improve your entire life is to sign up for a physical side quest. Race. Competition. Adventure. Whatever. Your day becomes more structured with the training. You sleep deeper because you're tired. You eat cleaner. You look better. You feel better. Everything falls into alignment. It's a psychological process disguised as a physical one.
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Replying to @Airtel_Presence
@Airtel_Presence My Airtel broadband has been painfully slow for days. Anything on Fastly CDN (GitHub, Homebrew, dev downloads) crawls at 0.5 Mbps via Mumbai, while other servers give 200+ Mbps. Looks like congestion on your Fastly peering. Please escalate to your network team.
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Details: Fastly Mumbai (151.101.x.x / 185.199.108.x) has ~8 ms ping and 0% loss, but downloads run at 0.5–1 Mbps. Vultr Mumbai on the same line gives 220 Mbps. It's not my Wi-Fi (-32 dBm signal, 433 Mbps link). Happy to share test logs by DM.
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Scifi keeps getting closer to reality every single day
Real life, baby
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Real life, baby
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So glad I didn't pawn off my old Mac when I got the new one. @Tailscale is also S tier. Added a HDMI dummy, Al Dente to keep charging in check, @netdatahq to keep track of the vitals. Using @get_bb_app as my daily driver though, desktop app UX is just better over @herdrdev
Every developer needs an AI shed: An always-on machine running on their tailscale network where the majority of their herdr agents are running.
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I’ve done this when working on android. Went through multiple used phone stores to find the oldest device I could find as a test device
Every software developer should own a potato PC. It's the easiest way to ensure your application is fast enough. Put your agents to work within it and watch the weight drop. There's no reason a machine from ten years ago shouldn't fly like superman.
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Excellent read, the mental model for effort levels is key
What is effort really? When do you change it it and why not just use max effort for everything? I dove deep into this problem, looking into evals and doing my own tests and I was quite surprised by the results.
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I’m convinced 90% of a founder's job is to just do 3 things: - be delusional in your optimism - push everyone to move faster - make it crystal clear what to work on
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Is there any todo app that captures tasks as being part of an open loop or thread? I want to have it group tasks related to that loop pulled in together, and the ability to set a priority on the loop itself, not tasks. Examples of loops - buy a software to fulfill a requirement (finite), make improvements on my website (ongoing). It should also ideally track when a loop is pending on an action on me or another person, check through my comm channels on updates, and create/update tasks accordingly. I tried creating this with @todoist and @NousResearch Hermes, but it’s quite brittle, and doesn’t have good “loop” views in UI, or loop primitives.
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Don’t send me the report, just send me the prompt.
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alright whoever came up with the term MEAT PROXY is insane
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Having Fable and Sol fight it out makes waiting for them so much more entertaining
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Replying to @EmmettMaher
90% of software *should* look and work the same. millions of hours have been wasted by software makers and users trying to create, and figure out how to use, special snowflakes.
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Been using the preview, cut down times for our type checks 5x, without taking a dump on RAM. Now just need it to cut down my build times @nextjs 🙏
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if a toddler puts a sticker on you, that’s a sign of great respect in their culture
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Replying to @gregisenberg
1. Hermes, too much time spent fixing oc 2. OpenAI for being more open 3. Claude code, codex on cli blows. Fix it and I’m yours @OpenAI 4. Cloud, time is too valuable to spend with ok models when there are better 5. Bootstrap - you can always raise later if you REALLY want to 6. Absolute best 7. Layoffs, there is unfortunately a whole lot more to come
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This is why I share screenshots of the content of a link before I share the link
Replying to @trq212
The gap between 'AI generated something useful' and 'a coworker actually opens it' is mostly a rendering problem.
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Everyone keeps asking “what is your loop” but nobody’s asking “how is your loop”
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Hey @aarondfrancis - I want to have my scratchpad up (with my plan) on my second monitor while I continue chat on the first. Any way to do this within Solo right now? Or have a vertical splitscreen where I can have a scratchpad and chat side-by-side? I've also been looking for some way to have claude plans show up in an easily reviewable way outside the terminal. Current workflow with Warp is to open a vert split, run a command to figure out what the path to the plan is, cmd+click that to open with the markdown renderer warp has. Though I like Solo's shortcuts, notifications more. From what it looks like scratchpads were made exactly for this? Thanks for the free tier, I'm looking for reasons to upgrade!
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