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avikalp
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About avikalp
Interested in developer tools, physical AI, distributed systems, and team-culture building.
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The AI applications that I build have a core loop that does most of the work, and then most of the other components are designed to make sure that the output is actually correct an…
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Comment #48082265
I have always felt that my orchestration is supposed to increase the reliability because that is what the pipeline is doing. Checking the work of the main agent and giving feedback…
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Comment #43226147
This is only true for "development branch" CRs/pull requests. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Every small change in the feature that you are building might make com…
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Comment #43226139
I agree with you 100%. In the maker-checker process, if we are imagining a future where AI will be writing/editing most of the code, the AI-code-review tools will need to integrate…
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Comment #43226092
What you are saying is true, and this is the feedback I hear every time I talk to a small team of developers (generally fewer than 15 developers). At this stage, you don't need "an…
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Comment #43226056
I have had a similar discussion with a fellow On-Deck Founder, and here is where we reached: - More than being "good enough", it is about taking responsibility. - A human can make …
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Comment #43225969
I'm sorry, I didn't mean it to be an ad. I have been interviewing engineering leaders for months, and my startup idea is born out of it. I don't have the product ready yet - it is …
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Comment #42566737
This is an open-source project. Link to the source code: https://github.com/avikalpg/typing-analyst
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Show HN: Typing Analyst – Constantly shows typing speed and accuracy on macOS
Hey everyone! As a New Year holiday project, I built out a MacOS tool that constantly measures typing speed and accuracy in the background and displays it on the status bar. I alwa…
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Comment #42323906
Wow, this is a very well-written article. I have experienced a lot of this in my own experience as a software developer. This makes me wonder, the concept of pair programming has b…
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Comment #42323699
I have heard the same as well. These days, I am thinking about how AI code gen can be affecting this. When AI is writing code, you can't assume yourself to be the pair programmer, …