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avikalp

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About avikalp

Engineer and founder. IIT Kanpur → Microsoft Research → a few startups, most recently Vibinex (code review tooling, open-source). Currently a resident at South Park Commons, exploring what to build next.

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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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, …