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Don Syme @dsyme.bsky.social · 1d

My latest post is out!

🔄 Introduce "Semi-automatic Performance Engineering"

🏆 A Grand Challenge for CS

🧩 Why it's hard, heterogeneous

✨ Show GitHub Agentic Workflows "Daily Perf Improver"

🔮 What's Possible, Potential, and Delusional

🧹 Let's tackle technical debt!

dsyme.net/2025/10/12/t...

Introducing Semi-automatic Performance Engineering

(This blog post is written in personal tone, but relates to our work at GitHub Next and may be moved to in future. A huge thank you to Peli de Halleux, Joe Zhou, Eddie Aftandilian, Russell Horton, …

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · 2d

Some thoughts on LLMs, Autopilot, and VibeCoding rahulpandita.me/blog/2025-10...

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · Aug 12

plane animation inspired by @wattenberger.com's wattenberger.com/thoughts/fis...

LLMs are a tool for thought

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · Aug 12

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQtX...

डिग्रियाँ तो तालीम के खर्चें की रसीदें है… Dr. Vikas Divyakirti sir letest shayari

YouTube video by K C Meena RPF

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · Aug 12

Degrees are merely proof of the money you've spent on a course. Education is knowing how to use what you learned.
rahulpandita.me/blog/2025-06...

Rahul Pandita

Rahul Pandita - Software Engineer, Developer, and Researcher

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · Jul 24

There is high likelyhood of the Bidding wars in AI companies to converge on global maxima of Nelson Bighetti (aka Big Head).

Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · Jul 17

awesome work by @kcieslak.io

Krzysztof Cieslak @kcieslak.io · Jul 16

I've published a project page about small exploration I've done earlier this year around code navigation / visualization of code structure using LLMs.

Feel free to check it out:

githubnext.com/projects/cop...

GitHub Next | Project Copernicus

GitHub Next Project: Exploring LLM-powered navigation for your codebase

githubnext.com

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · Jul 14

Leadville (KLXV) North Americas highest elevation (9934’) airport ✅

Mt Elbert Colorado’s tallest peak in the background!!

Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · Jun 27

Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · Jun 20

I'm now a FAA-certified private pilot(ASEL) and can joke that I'm a pilot working on
@githubnext.com #Copilot.

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · May 27

Like my dad, we will glitch in real-time to adjust our 9-channel knob mindset to a 999-channel remote, but I am confident that we can overcome it. And the sudden "1000-fold expansion of possible coding universe" is only going to increase the demand for programming(pun intended)...

Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · May 27

I believe we are witnessing an analogous phenomenon unfold in real-time. More than ever, we need to be ruthless in questioning the constraints that are symbolic remnants of a bygone era.

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · May 27

It took him a while to unlearn the constraint of 9 channels. The sudden 1000-fold expansion of the universe took some adjustment, but he did it. In contrast, operating a TV remote came relatively naturally to my younger brother and me.

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · May 27

Growing up, I always found it both frustrating and amusing to see my dad glitch in real-time when we switched from a 9-channel TV operated by a knob to a 999-channel TV operated by a remote.

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · May 27

One interesting thing I've learned when talking with GitHub CEO @ashtom.bsky.social last week is how GitHub is hiring *more* early-careers devs (interns / new grads) as before.

I asked: why? Given lots of companies are hiring less assuming AI might be at the level of a junior dev (cont'd)

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · May 20

AI won't resolve process issues; it only rapidly reduces the time to failure due to them.

Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · May 19

missed this!

Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · May 7

4. informative feedback to acknowledge each user action

5. progress indicators to show status, and

6 .completion reports to confirm accomplishment

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · May 7

1. consistent interfaces to allow users to form, express, and revise intent,

2. continuous visual display of the objects and actions of interest,

3. rapid, incremental, and reversible actions

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · May 7

The Prometheus principles to human-centered AI design
t.co/xMJzA75GUj

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04087

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · May 6

"Automatically setting up, building, and testing a developer environment to aid Agentic Software Development." with
tamás and davidslater

githubnext.com/projects/dis...

GitHub Next | Discovery Agent

GitHub Next Project: Agentic Setup, Build, and Testing of Repositories.

githubnext.com

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · Mar 5

Devcontainers are the way forward to share the runtime between vibe coding devs and fledgling autonomous agents…

Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · Jan 15

Most of my #AI demos start as if conditions and while loops

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GitHub Next @githubnext.com · Nov 19

Finding an app 🤝 Making an app
GitHub Spark Raycast Extension

www.raycast.com/github-next/...

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Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita.bsky.social · Nov 12

Wow, macOS for docker. That too LEGAL
github.com/dockur/macos
**Wait a minute**
...So only run this container on hardware sold by Apple, as any other use will be a violation of their terms and conditions

a man wearing a scrub top says you have to look

ALT: a man wearing a scrub top says you have to look

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