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Aditya Agarwal

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

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The 2 a.m. AI interview is how companies stopped interviewing back
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The 2 a.m. AI interview is how companies stopped interviewing back

#discuss #hiring #career #culture
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Go 1.27 banning generic methods from interfaces is the honest move
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Go 1.27 banning generic methods from interfaces is the honest move

#go #programming #opinion #debate
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Swift 6 turned working code into a compile error and iOS devs are furious
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Swift 6 turned working code into a compile error and iOS devs are furious

#swift #concurrency #mobile #programming
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Seven interview rounds is a confession that your bar is broken
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Seven interview rounds is a confession that your bar is broken

#discuss #hiring #career #opinion
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Postgres as your message queue is a SPOF you'll regret at 3am
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Postgres as your message queue is a SPOF you'll regret at 3am

#postgres #architecture #database #debate
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Polyglot persistence was the mistake. Postgres was always enough.
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Polyglot persistence was the mistake. Postgres was always enough.

#database #postgres #architecture #opinion
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Rust's async story is still an embarrassment for web APIs
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Rust's async story is still an embarrassment for web APIs

#rust #concurrency #webdev #opinion
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The $11k cloud bill was mostly the tools you added to watch the cloud bill
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The $11k cloud bill was mostly the tools you added to watch the cloud bill

#devops #cloud #observability #opinion
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The Bun rewrite proves 'never rewrite from scratch' was always a cope
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The Bun rewrite proves 'never rewrite from scratch' was always a cope

#opinion #rust #ai #programming
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Barrel files are the clean-code habit quietly wrecking your bundle
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Barrel files are the clean-code habit quietly wrecking your bundle

#frontend #webdev #nextjs #performance
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Go 1.26 iterators turned the simplest language into functional spaghetti
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Go 1.26 iterators turned the simplest language into functional spaghetti

#go #programming #opinion #debate
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Virtual threads didn't scale your app. They just moved the crash to your database.
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Virtual threads didn't scale your app. They just moved the crash to your database.

#java #performance #database #concurrency
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The 72-hour dependency cooldown is security theater that breaks your builds
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The 72-hour dependency cooldown is security theater that breaks your builds

#security #devops #supplychain #dependencies
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OpenAI buying Astral means uv now answers to a model company
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OpenAI buying Astral means uv now answers to a model company

#python #opensource #governance #opinion
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Go error handling won and the if err != nil crowd deserves the win
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Go error handling won and the if err != nil crowd deserves the win

#go #programming #opinion #debate
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Agile fatigue isn't about Agile. It's about who holds the stopwatch.
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Agile fatigue isn't about Agile. It's about who holds the stopwatch.

#culture #devlife #opinion #communication
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The AI-native junior can't debug and we're pretending that's fine
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The AI-native junior can't debug and we're pretending that's fine

#career #ai #culture #hiring
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The Hutter Prize measures intelligence better than any OpenAI benchmark
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The Hutter Prize measures intelligence better than any OpenAI benchmark

#discuss #ai #programming #opinion
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Codeberg banning AI code is not a cult. It's a boundary.
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Codeberg banning AI code is not a cult. It's a boundary.

#discuss #opensource #ai #community
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Platform teams became the new gatekeepers we said we hated
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Platform teams became the new gatekeepers we said we hated

#devops #platform #culture #debate
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The slot machine workflow is the real vibe coding problem
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The slot machine workflow is the real vibe coding problem

#discuss #ai #productivity #devlife
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The Staff engineer with 4 years of experience is a hiring problem we made
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The Staff engineer with 4 years of experience is a hiring problem we made

#discuss #career #hiring #culture
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Compliance-grade pentesting is a scan wearing a suit
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Compliance-grade pentesting is a scan wearing a suit

#discuss #security #compliance #culture
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An AI chatbot invented a refund policy and a court made the company pay
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An AI chatbot invented a refund policy and a court made the company pay

#ai #legal #chatbots #opinion
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Devs are adding typos to prove they're not ChatGPT and that's bleak
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Devs are adding typos to prove they're not ChatGPT and that's bleak

#discuss #culture #devlife #communication
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Interviewing off leetcode you already memorized isn't cheating, it's the job

Candidates must fake initial ineptitude
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Interviewing off leetcode you already memorized isn't cheating, it's the job

#discuss #hiring #interview #career
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Design Engineer is the title that quietly ends your career
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Design Engineer is the title that quietly ends your career

#discuss #career #frontend #webdev
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Go's static linking is a security tax nobody warned you about
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Go's static linking is a security tax nobody warned you about

#go #security #packaging #debate
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One bounded context per microservice is how you build a distributed monolith
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One bounded context per microservice is how you build a distributed monolith

#architecture #microservices #softwareengineering #opinion
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Server Actions blur the client-server line and juniors are paying for it
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Server Actions blur the client-server line and juniors are paying for it

#nextjs #frontend #security #webdev
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The keystroke-counting RTO metric is a confession, not a policy
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The keystroke-counting RTO metric is a confession, not a policy

#career #remote #culture #opinion
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SQLite runs more production than the modern data stack wants you to believe
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SQLite runs more production than the modern data stack wants you to believe

#architecture #softwareengineering #opinion #programming
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Vanilla CSS quietly caught up and Tailwind fans haven't noticed.
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Vanilla CSS quietly caught up and Tailwind fans haven't noticed.

#css #webdev #frontend #opinion
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Your NAT gateway is a $30k landmine and nobody warns juniors
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Your NAT gateway is a $30k landmine and nobody warns juniors

#cloud #cost #architecture #devops
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The monolith won. Most teams just haven't admitted it yet.
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The monolith won. Most teams just haven't admitted it yet.

#softwareengineering #architecture #cloud #cost
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The most expensive outages return HTTP 200
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The most expensive outages return HTTP 200

#devops #observability #cloud #cost
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uv is amazing and that's exactly what should scare Python devs
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uv is amazing and that's exactly what should scare Python devs

#discuss #python #opensource #devtools
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On-call is unpaid overtime and we normalized it
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On-call is unpaid overtime and we normalized it

#discuss #career #culture #devops
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We rewrote a Go service in Rust and our velocity tanked for a quarter.
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We rewrote a Go service in Rust and our velocity tanked for a quarter.

#rust #go #migration #startup
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I Threw Playwright and BrowserAct at the Same Cloudflare Wall - Only BrowserAct Made It
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I Threw Playwright and BrowserAct at the Same Cloudflare Wall - Only BrowserAct Made It

#webscraping #automation #ai #playwright
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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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