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Aditya Agarwal

Founding engineer | Building software at scale | Products used by 20M+ users

Location Sydney Joined Joined on  Personal website https://adioof.com

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BITS Pilani

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Anthropic hid tracking signals in Unicode apostrophes. That's not telemetry, that's steganography.
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Anthropic hid tracking signals in Unicode apostrophes. That's not telemetry, that's steganography.

#ai #security #trust #anthropic
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100k lines of TypeScript to Rust via LLM is not a port. It's a mess with a demo.
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100k lines of TypeScript to Rust via LLM is not a port. It's a mess with a demo.

#ai #rust #typescript #programming
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100k lines of AI-ported Rust nobody can review is not an achievement
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100k lines of AI-ported Rust nobody can review is not an achievement

#ai #rust #typescript #codequality
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100k lines of TypeScript to Rust with zero Rust experience. That's not engineering.
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100k lines of TypeScript to Rust with zero Rust experience. That's not engineering.

#ai #rust #programming #debate
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AI didn't commoditize software. It commoditized confidence.
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AI didn't commoditize software. It commoditized confidence.

#ai #programming #startup #opinion
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AI didn't kill developer joy. Managers who mandate AI did.
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AI didn't kill developer joy. Managers who mandate AI did.

#ai #career #culture #devlife
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AI didn't kill Tailwind UI. The lifetime license did.
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AI didn't kill Tailwind UI. The lifetime license did.

#tailwindcss #devtools #business #opensource
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r/programming banned LLM posts. 6.9 million devs just exhaled.
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r/programming banned LLM posts. 6.9 million devs just exhaled.

#discuss #programming #webdev
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React's real problem is corporate capture, not technical debt
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React's real problem is corporate capture, not technical debt

#discuss #programming #webdev
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AI commoditized code, not software. Developers keep confusing the two.
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AI commoditized code, not software. Developers keep confusing the two.

#ai #softwareengineering #career #opinion
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React lost the mass and Vercel is wearing its skin
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React lost the mass and Vercel is wearing its skin

#react #vercel #javascript #webdev
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AI made coding boring and nobody wants to admit it out loud
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AI made coding boring and nobody wants to admit it out loud

#ai #career #productivity #programming
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React's real problem isn't React. It's Vercel.
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React's real problem isn't React. It's Vercel.

#react #vercel #javascript #webdev
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Tailwind laid off 75% of engineering. AI didn't do that, shadcn did.
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Tailwind laid off 75% of engineering. AI didn't do that, shadcn did.

#tailwindcss #ai #opensource #webdev
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AI review debt is the bottleneck nobody's measuring
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AI review debt is the bottleneck nobody's measuring

#ai #devops #productivity #codereview
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Bun shipped a million lines of AI-generated unsafe code. That's not bold, it's reckless.
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Bun shipped a million lines of AI-generated unsafe code. That's not bold, it's reckless.

#bunjs #javascript #ai #opensource
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Most devs using AI aren't 10x. They're 1x with 10x technical debt.
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Most devs using AI aren't 10x. They're 1x with 10x technical debt.

#discuss #programming #webdev #career
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AI productivity gains vanish when you measure them honestly
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AI productivity gains vanish when you measure them honestly

#discuss #programming #webdev #career
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Disposable code is a psyop by people who don't maintain anything
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Disposable code is a psyop by people who don't maintain anything

#softwareengineering #ai #architecture #opinion
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Devs say AI killed their joy. The rot started before ChatGPT.
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Devs say AI killed their joy. The rot started before ChatGPT.

#career #ai #burnout #opinion
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AI agents scored 0% on expert tasks. The hype machine doesn't care.
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AI agents scored 0% on expert tasks. The hype machine doesn't care.

#ai #agents #benchmarks #opinion
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The rsync disaster proves AI isn't ready for infrastructure code
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The rsync disaster proves AI isn't ready for infrastructure code

#ai #opensource #infrastructure #linux
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The rsync maintainer used Claude for hundreds of commits. The release broke everything.
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The rsync maintainer used Claude for hundreds of commits. The release broke everything.

#opensource #ai #maintenance #controversy
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Tailwind laid off 75% of engineers and blamed AI. The real story is worse.
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Tailwind laid off 75% of engineers and blamed AI. The real story is worse.

#ai #tailwindcss #opensource #layoffs
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Someone deleted 3 months of AI-generated code. This will keep happening.
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Someone deleted 3 months of AI-generated code. This will keep happening.

#ai #techdebt #codequality #career
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Bun rewrote itself from Zig to Rust using an LLM in 9 days. That should terrify you.
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Bun rewrote itself from Zig to Rust using an LLM in 9 days. That should terrify you.

#ai #javascript #rust #opensource
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Most agentic workflows are just while loops with vibes
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Most agentic workflows are just while loops with vibes

#ai #agents #architecture #hotake
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Bun rewrote itself from Zig to Rust in 9 days with an LLM. That's terrifying.
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Bun rewrote itself from Zig to Rust in 9 days with an LLM. That's terrifying.

#discuss #bunjs #rust #ai
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AI doesn't make you a generalist. It makes you a nobody.
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AI doesn't make you a generalist. It makes you a nobody.

#discuss #ai #career #programming
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AI makes experienced devs 19% slower. They just don't feel it.
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AI makes experienced devs 19% slower. They just don't feel it.

#ai #productivity #research #programming
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Senior devs are 19% slower with AI tools but think they're 20% faster
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Senior devs are 19% slower with AI tools but think they're 20% faster

#ai #productivity #coding #career
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Experienced devs are 19% slower with AI tools. Nobody wants to believe it.
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Experienced devs are 19% slower with AI tools. Nobody wants to believe it.

#discuss #ai #productivity #career
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HTMX getting hired by GitHub doesn't validate your hatred of React
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HTMX getting hired by GitHub doesn't validate your hatred of React

#webdev #htmx #react #frontend
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AI didn't devalue senior engineers. It exposed the ones who were never senior.
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AI didn't devalue senior engineers. It exposed the ones who were never senior.

#discuss #ai #career #seniorengineer
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Copilot doesn't make juniors dumber. It makes seniors lazier.
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Copilot doesn't make juniors dumber. It makes seniors lazier.

#ai #githubcopilot #career #opinion
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AI coding assistants make junior devs faster and worse at the same time
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AI coding assistants make junior devs faster and worse at the same time

#ai #githubcopilot #career #programming
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Senior developer" after 3 years is title laundering
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Senior developer" after 3 years is title laundering

#career #culture #startup #hiring
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AI coding assistants are creating mass dependency and we're pretending it's productivity
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AI coding assistants are creating mass dependency and we're pretending it's productivity

#ai #githubcopilot #productivity #career
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Copilot is making juniors mass-produce code they can't debug
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Copilot is making juniors mass-produce code they can't debug

#ai #githubcopilot #programming #career
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AI coding assistants are making juniors worse and seniors lazier
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AI coding assistants are making juniors worse and seniors lazier

#ai #githubcopilot #codequality #career
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Most programmers are miserable and we pretend that's normal
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Most programmers are miserable and we pretend that's normal

#career #burnout #culture #opinion
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George Hotz is right. Coding agents are producing an ocean of slop.
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George Hotz is right. Coding agents are producing an ocean of slop.

#ai #codequality #softwaredevelopment #opinion
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Node.js wants to ban AI-generated code. They should.
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Node.js wants to ban AI-generated code. They should.

#node #ai #opensource #governance
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Experienced devs are 19% slower with AI tools. Nobody wants to hear it.
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Experienced devs are 19% slower with AI tools. Nobody wants to hear it.

#discuss #programming #webdev
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George Hotz called AI code 'slop.' He's half right.
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George Hotz called AI code 'slop.' He's half right.

#ai #codequality #opinion #programming
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Experienced devs are slower with AI tools. Nobody wants to admit it.
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Experienced devs are slower with AI tools. Nobody wants to admit it.

#discuss #programming #webdev #career
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Experienced devs are slower with AI and they don't even know it
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Experienced devs are slower with AI and they don't even know it

#discuss #programming #webdev #career
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Experienced devs are 19% slower with AI tools. They just don't believe it.
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Experienced devs are 19% slower with AI tools. They just don't believe it.

#discuss #ai #productivity #codingtools
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Google used 6,000 open-source contributors then locked the door. Classic.
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Google used 6,000 open-source contributors then locked the door. Classic.

#opensource #google #ai #community
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AI slop debt" is technical debt on fast forward. Nobody's ready.
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AI slop debt" is technical debt on fast forward. Nobody's ready.

#ai #technicaldebt #softwareengineering #productivity
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AI made senior devs 19% slower. They swore it made them faster.
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AI made senior devs 19% slower. They swore it made them faster.

#discuss #ai #productivity #programming
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Your company won't replace you with good AI. They'll replace you with bad AI.
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Your company won't replace you with good AI. They'll replace you with bad AI.

#discuss #ai #career #programming
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Vibe coding works until it doesn't. The debt is real.
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Vibe coding works until it doesn't. The debt is real.

#ai #programming #productivity #hotdebate
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Most 'AI agents' are just scripts with a marketing budget
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Most 'AI agents' are just scripts with a marketing budget

#discuss #programming #webdev #career
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Junior devs using Copilot are speedrunning their own irrelevance
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Junior devs using Copilot are speedrunning their own irrelevance

#ai #career #juniordev #githubcopilot
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Junior devs who learned with Copilot can't debug without it. That's fine.
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Junior devs who learned with Copilot can't debug without it. That's fine.

#career #ai #juniordev #culture
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AI will keep React alive forever. That should terrify you.
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AI will keep React alive forever. That should terrify you.

#react #ai #webdev #frameworks
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Claude wants your government ID now. Local models just won.
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Claude wants your government ID now. Local models just won.

#discuss #programming #webdev
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Agentic coding isn't a trap. Lazy engineering is.
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Agentic coding isn't a trap. Lazy engineering is.

#ai #agentcoding #productivity #softwaredevelopment
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Cursor 3 users are getting $2000 bills. Nobody read the pricing page.
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Cursor 3 users are getting $2000 bills. Nobody read the pricing page.

#ai #devtools #cursor #pricing
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