i write at atharvaraykar.com i work @nilenso.com yes-anding the world.https://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.comhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3mk6ln5vfls2cwent to lobste.rs after a while. I think they are still not fans of AI.23 Apr 2026 17:58 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6ln5vfls2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3miir33xtlc2uanalogies are like wet balloons, they are not very effective at explaining things02 Apr 2026 08:12 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3miir33xtlc2uhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3mes6lu73ec2bMy colleague analysed the system prompts for codex and claude and realised the reason they feel different is because of deliberate product decisions in the prompt! https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2026/02/12/codex-cli-vs-claude-code-on-autonomy/14 Feb 2026 04:27 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mes6lu73ec2bhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3mentpdfd622kI was hoping the OpenResponses API would be a meaningful step forward deal with the LLM API standardisation headaches, but right now the spec is really undercooked. There are lots of inconsistencies/contradictions between the reference schemas and what the specification says! www.openresponses.org https://www.openresponses.org/12 Feb 2026 11:01 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mentpdfd622khttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3melc3qixbk2uIs A2A protocol completely useless? I don't know of anyone building enterprise multi-agent communication. Why design such a thick protocol for a use case that does not yet exist in practice? a2a-protocol.org/latest/ Feels like another SOAP/CORBA etc https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/11 Feb 2026 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3melc3qixbk2uhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3medz6d2y6s2gthoughts on ese. atharvaraykar.com/ese/ https://atharvaraykar.com/ese/08 Feb 2026 13:13 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3medz6d2y6s2ghttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3mdg6et7lr22jthings I have dumped on the internet this month. How the lobsters algorithm works: atharvaraykar.com/lobsters/ 11:59 PM: atharvaraykar.com/reinforce/ https://atharvaraykar.com/lobsters/27 Jan 2026 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdg6et7lr22jhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lzxhpvxmik2xI wrote a post looking into multiple SWE/coding benchmarks. Many of them measure something narrower than what their names suggests. https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09/25/swe-benchmarks/29 Sep 2025 07:16 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzxhpvxmik2xhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lz6jzwkhb22hWrote about units of work being a useful lever for getting good results from AI-assisted coding. https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09/15/ai-unit-of-work/19 Sep 2025 09:21 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz6jzwkhb22hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lymnc4qbzc25I've been poking Srihari, our most experienced engineer @nilenso.com to share his hard-earned knowledge for the benefit of others. Even if you're not an engineering leader like me, this checklist gives a lot of insight into what makes a great engineering org. https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09/05/my-quarterly-system-health-check-in-beyond-the-dashboard/12 Sep 2025 06:32 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lymnc4qbzc25https://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lwgzutct7c2igrateful for my low-quality education where teachers could not correctly explain the basics of anything right it pushed me to cultivate good epistemics and build truth-seeking habits early on it also forced me to never trust authoritative figures, many are very incompetent15 Aug 2025 14:10 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwgzutct7c2ihttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lwds6d2ysk2uWhy Does AI Feel So Different? An enjoyable read from my colleague, Srihari. We've been talking about why this disruption feels different from other recent technological disruptions and he captured a lot of that really well in this post. Link: https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/08/12/why-does-ai-feel-so-different/14 Aug 2025 07:15 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwds6d2ysk2uhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3luzroev4k22eQuestion for the "launch many parallel claude agents to go faster" crowd: Why isn't that the same problem as the Brooks's law all over again?28 Jul 2025 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3luzroev4k22ehttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lurk6ohiuc26despite all the AI hype there's only been two kinds of tools with direct improvements to my life: - chat (like chatgpt, claude ai) - terminal coding agents (like claude code) surprising how nothing better has stuck yet25 Jul 2025 07:39 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lurk6ohiuc26https://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lt4uxc5qq22bSeveral people ask me about how I'm keeping up with all the AI things and finding signal in this noisy landscape. I wrote a guide explaining this. https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/06/23/how-i-keep-up-with-ai-progress/04 Jul 2025 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt4uxc5qq22bhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lrxmctb3nk2nI was seeing @karpathy.bsky.social's Software 3.0 talk, as one should. Surreal to see him recommend my writing to make a point on AI-assisted coding "Is that me on TV??" moment19 Jun 2025 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrxmctb3nk2nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lqjjaf4flc2pQuality, and the cutlets of enthusiasm https://atharvaraykar.com/quality-and-the-cutlets-of-enthusiasm/01 Jun 2025 05:20 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqjjaf4flc2phttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lgntix6cky2gI have revamped my website of essays. it's now more searchable, supports commenting and also doubles as a newsletter. now back to writing again. https://buff.ly/3EbtE2826 Jan 2025 16:22 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgntix6cky2ghttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lg35ynrqcr2gis "cracked" the new codeninja/rockstar?19 Jan 2025 06:09 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg35ynrqcr2ghttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lfyx4v427g2yBuddhist Teacher Geshe Langri Tangpa (circa 1100 AD) 🤝 XXXTentacion (2018)18 Jan 2025 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfyx4v427g2yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lewk2evzhj2nthe reason i write and encourage other people to write is because writing is the most scalable form of persuasion and negotiation it's one of the best coordination mechanisms that humans have04 Jan 2025 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lewk2evzhj2nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lewabn24xl2qmy current pet conspiracy theory is that a lot of your favourite artists are heavily using AI generated sequences in their music, but no one has noticed it yet04 Jan 2025 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lewabn24xl2qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lewaar6jno2qTIL about the Modi (मोडी / 𑘦𑘻𑘚𑘲‎) script, used for Marathi up until the 1940s. In 2025, it looks like AI generated Devanagari.04 Jan 2025 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lewaar6jno2qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lerhvznulk2qThe most meaningful work I've ever done has been with the wonderful tech team who work on the simple.org app. I wrote on the Simple blog about how ideas from systems dynamics can be used to make sense of hard problems like preventing deaths from heart disease. https://www.simple.org/blog/a-systems-thinking-approach-to-saving-lives-from-heart-attacks-and-strokes/02 Jan 2025 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lerhvznulk2qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3lehjukj7bk2di quickly concocted a writer's block unblocker (with @tldraw.com computer) it takes an oblique strategy (from the brian eno et al card deck) and uses it to provide unhinged critique of the essay you are working on to help you break out of a rut link to program: https://computer.tldraw.com/t/4KoB33nFEr8cHRTQLsLpYb29 Dec 2024 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3lehjukj7bk2dhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3leehezc6z22fi picked up india after gandhi by ramachandra guha recently and it is a 10/10 book so far it has renewed my fascination with india context is that which is scarce. this book will catch you all up with some context28 Dec 2024 12:01 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3leehezc6z22fhttps://blacksky.community/profile/atharvaraykar.com/post/3leeggi4nvy2fi figured out how to use twttr without frying my brain https://buff.ly/3DIRL7W28 Dec 2024 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:hadgpxog6eietjqixstnkdts/app.bsky.feed.post/3leeggi4nvy2f