making compilers grin, building distributed systems, previous @ihc__official, research @iiit_hyderabad
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Joined July 2021
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tushar retweeted
i’ve said it before l, but learning and working in ocaml was the best thing i ever did as an engineer
Learning functional programming really bought the joy back to me after years and years of professional programming I'd gotten a bit sick and tired.
Using languages like Perl without automated tests without any real safety rails had me phrasled.
F Sharp, unit tests, end to end test and I was happy again.
I could be confident what I was installing in production wouldn't break everything.
Llms have totally changed the industry I don't know if people need to learn functional programming anymore but I'm grateful I did before llms came.
tushar retweeted
There is still no substitute for caring. Every piece of software getting rapidly better is happening because a human cares. And happens to be using AI to move really fast.
tushar retweeted
Thanks for the shoutout🫣 If you’re not following The Consensus, it’s the trending independent publication for software internals, check it out!
Worth a read: @keleesssss writes about bug finding considered harmful?
Also: @Dropbox acquired @TigrisData. And @openrouter is hiring a Software Engineer on the Platform team remotely in the US.
theconsensus.dev/g/2026/11/0…
depends on the size how big is the db has gotten, can u give rough idea of 95% percentile size of these db
tushar retweeted
X now loads posts and profiles 8-13x faster on slow connections, thanks to streaming server-rendered HTML and zero JS before the first post.
The fastest JS is the JS nobody waits for. Congrats @yagiznizipli and team!
The web rewrite is working.
On a slow connection, the old X web took more than 22 seconds to show the first post on a profile. The new X web does it in 2.7 seconds. Here's how we did it, and how we're rolling it out one country at a time.
blog.x.com/en/engineering/re…
tushar retweeted
Video for my @rust_nyc talk, "Code Matters: Reflections on Rust in the LLM Age", is now up:
youtube.com/watch?v=5D7QPOIZ…
tushar retweeted
It's absolutely crazy that Europe feels 10 years behind in AI even though AI itself is only 3 years old.
tushar retweeted
We seriously should not keep saying this. Pretty soon some "formally verified" software is going to have bugs, and people are going to start questioning what value formal verification really has.
tushar retweeted
It cannot be overstated how much your quality of life decreases when it gets dark at 5pm instead of 7pm
tushar retweeted
When it comes to hiring, it’s easier to tame a reckless hustler than it is to instill that dawg in someone
