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But yeah, I don't like beginning to lose or doubt my own writing voice one bit.

I'm trying to counter this by trying to read more fiction, but for every page that I read, I'm probably reading 50 pages or so of LLM output. So I think this is a battle I'm going to lose out on in the long term. And I can probably only delay the inevitable.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 14h

But I do catch myself editing my own words multiples times a day. Because I'm less sure if that sentence structure is truly mine or a side effect of me conversing with LLMs so much.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 14h

I was considering adding a permanent disclaimer to every blog post on my site about it not being AI written. Then I relented. Because I don’t have to explain to strangers on the internet that I wrote it myself. I like writing, and even if it is imperfect at times I’m okay with that.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 29/09/2026

Yes! But also universal execution of that standard is still a few years out: bsky.app/profile/igup...

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 28/09/2026

These days I go and search for what’s available. Work on other permutations based on it because my preferred domains are of course not available. Then I close the tab. Yes I’m not normal.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 27/09/2026

Guy: Sorry (as he tries to sneak past) Me: No you’re not. Guy: looks up, perhaps confused Me: I was here before you Guy: makes a dissapointed face and stops

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 27/09/2026

At the airport, queued up to get on the elevator with bags. Almost no one wants to queue up at all which is surprising. Guy comes in last minute and tries to get past just when I think I can get onto this elevator with my trolley full of bags. I’m proud of myself for what transpired next:

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 27/09/2026

This flight today has wifi. But I intend to not use it. Flights have remained one of the last ways to force you to be off the grid, and this is one feature I’m not too excited about. Let’s see if I can resist the evil machine. ~10.5 hour flight. Here we go.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 27/09/2026

Rule of cables: you’ll need it when you don’t have it. I always fly with a USB A to lightning cable. Off late flights also have the usb c port. Right now I do not have the USB A version. And of course this flight only has USB A. No power outlets either.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 27/09/2026

The songs: 1. Notting Hill - Suki Waterhouse 2. Risk - FKJ, Bas 3. CHIHIRO - Billie Eilish 4. Say Hello - Jack Harlow

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 27/09/2026

Flying SFO-LHR today on Virgin Atlantic and props to them for playing some really groovy tunes while we board. All new ones I haven’t heard before. Thanks to Shazam I now have them in my playlist.

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW from us: India's rapid clean power expansion has kept power sector emissions flat for two years, for the first time in over 50 years, and sharply reduced fossil fuel imports. Oil and gas consumption have also fallen for two years in a row, helping alleviate the Hormuz shock.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 17/09/2026

This could have easily gone so wrong!

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 16/09/2026

My most used model is Opus 5, Medium for planning and dispatch with Sonnet 5 for execution.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 16/09/2026

Is this a side effect of perhaps me inherently expecting faster turnaround time now that I’m so used to the speed? The more complicated the work, the worse the output gets. So I can’t really go hands free yet.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 16/09/2026

Increasingly feels like that some things just take a lot longer with AI now. I find myself fighting the machine and trying to get it do do what I want. And it takes so many round trips that it tires me out. And my work at $DAYJOB is critical infrastructure layer so just “trust it” doesn’t cut it.

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Hacker News Top 100 Bot (Unofficial) @hn100.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tell the speakers that you liked their talks Discussion

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 10/09/2026

I like Amtrak. Except for the delays. Also it feels too slow compared to European trains. But also it’s a huge country!

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 10/09/2026

My partner is going to defend her PhD dissertation in computational biology tomorrow! I’m so proud of her!

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 06/09/2026

But then you’d get away with having to buy a separate phone for work and personal stuff. So that won’t happen ever.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 03/09/2026

I generally add a quick PSA note on the team channel on Slack if I’m expecting intermittent connectivity loss. Doesn’t hurt over communicating in a remote team.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 02/09/2026

This whole thread is one of best I’ve read that captures the nuance very well in the whole AI vs no AI debate.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 02/09/2026

What if our ears were like our eyes, and only had three (types of) receptors? Interestingly speech is still more or less intelligible, but not much else to me this shows how much more discriminating of frequencies our hearing is than our vision. Of course our vision has much more spatial resolution

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 02/09/2026

“Write a horror story in two sentences or less”

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 02/09/2026

My partner’s university in the US shut down their internal servers (slurm) for 7 days at a time for “maintenance”. Twice over the summer break. That sort of stuff would never be acceptable in a corporate setting and heads would roll if you even proposed this idea.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 02/09/2026

I’ve been learning off late how hard it is to change an entire org’s shipping culture. I used to think it was easier. You need a lot of buy in from all levels at the same time.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 02/09/2026

Is the ChatGPT app becoming its own package manager now.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 02/09/2026

If anything this means you can now buy some new domains. Umm I mean you can have some new dreams. 🫡😅

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026

I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

my car is throwing an engine trouble code, and I can just directly plug an intelligence into it and it will talk to the car computer and just figure it out the present is unbelievably cyberpunk

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 30/08/2026

Question to all the writers who still write themeselves and not use AI: Are you adding a big disclaimer on the top of your posts about not using AI for the writing? I'm conflicted and can't seem to make up my mind. How is everyone going about this?

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 30/08/2026

Find of the day: github.com/rfonseca/xkc... How this is not more popular? I love it. Now I am going to find an excuse to put some graphs in my writing just so I can use this!

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GitHub - rfonseca/xkcd-gnuplot: How to plot xkcd-style functions with gnuplot!

How to plot xkcd-style functions with gnuplot! Contribute to rfonseca/xkcd-gnuplot development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 29/08/2026

I recently moved to team top sheet. I think it depends on time of the year for me. Colder months 100% the top sheet feels better.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I had this conversation with a young man a few weeks ago. I told him that a lot of straight men don’t like women. They fall in love with them, they like having sex with them, but do they LIKE them? Not at all. They hate everything feminine. They see it as weak and silly.

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My painting SEA CAVES

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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

6”x6” Oil on cradled wood panel

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 27/08/2026

My latest interactive explainer all about the technology behind record players is done! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 27/08/2026

The responses here on the why are quite intriguing.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 27/08/2026

Neither. It means 9th September.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/08/2026

Hummingbirds.

A four panel comic. In panel 1, a rufous hummingbird flies down toward a large hummingbird feeder with as many as 6 holes on top. He thinks "The humans put up a new feeder!" In panel 2, he lands on the feeder and gazes down at it. He thinks "It's huge. Many of us could feed here at once." In panel 3, we see a close up view of the hummingbird, and he's thinking "This could end the ancient rivalries. Usher in an era of peace. Interesting." In panel 4, an Anna's hummingbird hovers over the feeder and says "Hey, can I have some necta-" and the rufous hummingbird says "No."

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 24/08/2026

So I was not the only one struggling with this non-sense. Thanks to Reddit, there's indeed a way to disable this (and they made it the default behaviour?!) Settings -> Advanced settings -> Uncheck `Shorten external ilnks` Thank you reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Slack/comm...

A screenshot of Slack app's settings menu. The advanced option is selected and the shorten external links checkbox is unchecked and highlighted in a red rectangle. Other settings also displayed but not directly relevant to this.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 24/08/2026

I've noticed a small uptick in the frequency of errors in downloading external dependencies in GitHub CI in the last few weeks. And they all seem to be pointing towards some kind of a connection reset. I hope someone at GitHub is seeing the same in their internal dashboards.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 24/08/2026

If you’re responsible for the commit being shipped, you’re the author (and any other humans as co-author). If an agent is fully responsible for it then the agent is the author. And you’re the reviewer. I think creating this distinct signal on who is the author for this change is really important.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 24/08/2026

Early on I believed we should be adding LLMs as co-authors to commits we make. My stance on this has now flipped. I think LLMs as co-authors makes us shirk responsibility for our changes. You wouldn’t have added Google or Stackoverflow as co-author previously. So you shouldn’t do it now.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 23/08/2026

In the AI vs no AI discourse I see a lot of nuance that’s missing. For a lot of things you can actually not read the code so much or care about it and you’ll be absolutely fine. But there’s a whole bunch of use cases where you should really know how it all actually works or else you’ll pay for it

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 21/08/2026

Yeah I’m beginning to get this feeling myself. When I don’t use AI at all I retain things better.

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Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in · 21/08/2026

Forgot to add alt text. Alt text: A GIF of a user pasting a URL in Slack and trying to edit it. The user cannot edit it anymore as text because Slack now treats the URL as a single object instead of text.

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