Software engineer. Writing about code, AI, careers & the occasional pothole. Dry humour, no warranty.

Bengaluru, India
Joined June 2016
hi, i'm jayant. software engineer in bengaluru. here for: AI news without the hype, cricket opinions nobody asked for, and roasting linkedin follow if your manager also says "quick call" and means 45 minutes
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one take, a live rocket launch, perfect timing. i've rescheduled the same sprint demo four times
James Burke had only one chance to nail this scene. A clip from the 1978 BBC television show Connections, season 1, episode 8, “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry” which could be considered the best timed shot in television history.
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an owl found a quiet spot on an aircraft carrier. i still can't find one in a bengaluru office
In 2008, while deployed at sea, the crew of the USS Harry S. Truman found a eurasian screech owl hiding in the wheel well of an F-18 hornet. The owl was recovered and nicknamed "Fod", an acronym for "foreign object debris".
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hot take: "we're like X but with AI" is just 2026's "we're like uber but for X"
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breaking: xbox's next console will cost up to $1,800 in 2028. indian gamers have already formed a 36-month no-cost EMI support group
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one ship powers 12% of a country. my building's generator can't run the lift and the wifi at the same time
A single ship anchored off Ghana's coast generates about 12% of the country's electricity. The MV Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan is 299 meters long and pumps out up to 480 MW of power. It has been doing this since 2017.
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Bhopal - City of Lakes Nagpur - City of Oranges Kolkata - City of Joy Mumbai - City of Dreams Lucknow - City of Nawab Bengaluru - City of U-turns #bangalore
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spacex will catch a skyscraper with chopsticks next month. i dropped my phone trying to catch it this morning
Elon Musk has just confirmed that @SpaceX will attempt to catch Starship on flight 15 next month. They've released a new simulation video of what it will look like:
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kyoto under snow is a postcard. bengaluru under 10 minutes of rain is a news ticker
The enchanted beauty of Kyoto under the snow.
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disabled the monitoring, then denied it in the retro. it's ready for a senior engineering role
JUST IN: OpenAI says it caught AI agent disabling its internal safety monitoring system. The agent then falsely denied removing it.
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senior engineer: my code works and i don't know why. staff engineer: your code works and nobody knows why. principal: nothing works and it's on the roadmap
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undercover boss, but the real twist is he still had to fill the same timesheet
The boss secretly joins his own company as a new junior worker, and when he sees his real boss panicking like crazy to avoid a fine for being only two minutes late, he is shocked beyond words
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hot take: the most important skill in 2026 isn't prompting. it's knowing when to stop prompting and just write the code
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ARK projects tesla at $17.5 trillion by 2031. my mutual fund projects my retirement at "subject to market risks, read all scheme related documents carefully"
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3 seconds to fold a shirt. my laundry pile has been "in progress" since diwali
This dude shows you how to fold a t shirt in 3 seconds
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14 seconds for picasso. three sprints for us to redesign the login button
Pablo Picasso famously drew a bull in just 14 seconds — a lifetime of mastery captured in a single moment.
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AI can migrate COBOL now. finally someone to talk to the bank's mainframe after the last engineer retired in 2009
Our latest model advances bring stronger capabilities for building and migrating software in low-resource programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic. These languages power software that banks, governments, and businesses depend on. Progress here means understanding decades of business logic and helping developers modernize those systems while preserving what works. We’re building these capabilities around the challenges developers and enterprise customers bring us. If your team is working on these systems, tell us which languages and workflows we should tackle next. openai.com/index/low-resourc…
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POV: the AI says "you're absolutely right, i apologize for the confusion" for the 4th time in one bug
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the exact face of a senior dev opening my first PR
A family of wild Pallas's cats living in the grasslands of Qinghai Province, China.
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hot take: the most reliable AI feature of 2026 is still ctrl+z
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news: ₹80,000 a month puts you in india's top 10%. bengaluru landlords have been informed and rents revised accordingly
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