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16 Mar 2021
This essay has been in my head as a draft for the last 5 years. It's about Kannada identity, triggered by a certain phrase I kept seeing in people's reviews of the 'new-age' movies.
I'd love to know if any of it resonates with you.
coda.io/@vikasgorur/for-a-ka…
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13 Dec 2025
Most Indians are convinced that the poorest person they know is their watchman on domestic worker, and are blissfully oblivious to 1/3rd of India earning less than 3k a month.
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5 Nov 2025
💯 you should not be building dashboards that turn business data into actionable insights before you're 30
4 Nov 2025
Dear “15-18 yo founder”s sending me DMs, don’t.
Go and hug your parents, fall in love, eat chocolate cereal for breakfast, read poetry. Nobody will give you back these years.
And sure, do your homework and learn math and code if that feels fun. But stop building SaaS and hustling.
Even if career is what you are optimizing for, this is not the way. You need deep education that will withstand automation. You need to sit with linear algebra and probability theory and philosophy and literature. It won’t get you go viral on X but it’ll make you whole.
And mute all the SF performative assholes.
Oooops sorry this last one was a note to self.
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3 Sep 2025
Learning code has me in disbelief at what these nerds have been cooking the last 40 years
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11 Aug 2025
I. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Ask some wise man in India for details.
II. Things happen in the natural world according to rules, not the whims of gods. Hire the Greeks to find them for you.
III. All things in the universe are made of combinations of the same LXXX elements.
I wonder what's the smallest amount of today's knowledge you'd need to give to the Romans back in 27 B.C. in order to spark industrialization/modernity roughly equivalent to our own but two millennia earlier
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11 Aug 2025
IV. Don't trust everything Aristotle says, do a fucking experiment!
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4 Aug 2025
(serious) ML researchers seem to do everything they can to make their papers seem more intimidating
4 Aug 2025
Why is KL Divergence a more commonly used term in the ML literature than the (in my opinion) much more intuitive “relative entropy”?
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20 Jul 2025
maybe time to finally stop reading HN comments. morons out there arguing that IMO problems are not that hard.
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20 Jul 2025
This is what the future looks like. The number of people who program in some form is going to double, triple.
The people who bitterly look down on AI-assisted coding will be left behind as relics of a bygone era.
20 Jul 2025
It is time for us to invite vibe-coders into our programming communities. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/20/t…
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17 Jul 2025
AI coding has led to a phenomenon I call "all vegetables and no candy"
The only thing I need to do is the *hard* parts of programming. This messes with your brain energy levels. Previously, there were always periods of low-energy repetitive work that you could do on autopilot.
16 Jul 2025
i feel intense pang of nostalgia thinking about how i will never have to write an immense amount of repetitive code to eg build a website ever again. there was a quiet bluecollar satisfaction to this type of work, knowing that if you don’t stay up all night smacking keys the thing really just won’t exist
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14 Jul 2025
Every "AI coding doesn't work" post/comment I see is just a thinly-disguised version of
"I am so smart and the problems I solve are unique, while you were partying I studied the blade" etc.
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14 Jul 2025
my regexes made Ken Thompson crash
my beauty could launch a thousand ships
my device drivers made Linus Torvalds panic
hah, I pity you fools!
wasting your treasure at the temple of Claude
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8 Jul 2025
'Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance' talks about "gumption" as the main limiting factor to creative work.
With coding agents you only need gumption to tackle the essential complexity and not for the annoying tedium.
8 Jul 2025
I legit have not had this much fun building software in years
I've always enjoyed it, but the agentic coding has brought a new energy to it. Can't really put my finger on what it is, but I think part of it is that the barrier to entry to some tedious tasks has just lowered.
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3 Jul 2025
Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
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Coding with AI has revealed that most of the thing that makes programming hard isn't writing the code down but getting to a point of conceptual clarity. Previously the only way to get there was by fighting through writing the code, so it got conflated with programming itself.
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24 Jun 2025
Hot take: teaching linear algebra in isolation should be illegal. Determinants, traces, eigenvectors mean nothing without real-world context.
20 years later, I still have to google this s**** every time I encounter it, because whoever taught me this was drier than drywall.
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Vikas retweeted
23 Jun 2025
Bringing my workshops to Bangalore this July! We have poetry, art and journaling lined up! Send it to people and come by! :)
Register here: linktr.ee/ms.alwar
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21 Jun 2025
biology is so weird, you take water and dry cat food and that's all you need to make a basically endless amount of cat. Eyes, claws, fur, skin, organs, blood, all made from water and dry cat food
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