iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I wouldn’t be alive if not for the H-1B program

Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I hate to be that guy, but I’ll go out on a limb and say this prediction is complete bullshit. A more realistic take is: LLMs will aid humans at all of these stages, which makes them insanely valuable tools. And that’s why I’m excited about them. But replace is a bit of a grifter take, IMO.

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I’m not sure if y’all have used LLMs in serious software engineering, but we’re not even at milestone 0 robustly. LLMs still completely screw up even when slightly complex technical constraints are well formed, in extremely subtle and frustrating ways.

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

For humans, these are all pretty intermingled, and you need software engineers at all of these stages. I think it’s safe to assume you have to get to milestone 3 to “fully replace all software engineers”

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Milestone 2: an AI translation layer of product requirements from a human to large scale technical requirements. Milestone 3: AI coming up with product requirements altogether.

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Milestone 0: AI can translate very focused technical requirements into software. Milestone 1: AI can translate project-scale technical requirements into software. This means understanding how many large technical components fit together.

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

There’s a lot of chatter of “AI solving software by the end of 2025”, which IMO is way off the mark. I useful to break things down into milestones 🧵

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

the day-night edge is so surprisingly sharp

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We just released the Databricks synthetic evals SDK! 🎉 We’ve found that synthesizing evals is a great way to hill climb your AI system before you’re able to get labels from domain experts. We’ve also recently release a new diff UI that lets you both qualitatively and quantitatively view results!

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

You would be a master VJ, one day i’ll make an llm to convert your animations to touch designer

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

oh yeah it is, I just never think to use gemini directly I guess!

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This query sold me on Perplexity Trying to understand if PCM will block sunlight for plants for a friends greenhouse. He wanted a fully natural way of keeping it warm in the winter. The answer was deep in academic papers that aren’t normally summarized by other search engines.

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My cleaner shrimp molted its exoskeleton, under a microscope there’s a tiny world of little agents. 80x and 1200x magnifications

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Something about the blue color on this app makes it feel so much friendlier than X. Not to mention I now get overtly racist anti-indian memes now over there…

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Agents are just normal programs with unstructured data flowing through them, and LLMs doing some of the transformations

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

My twitter notifications are mostly spam / bots that have bios trying to convince me to click a link to go on a date with them. Let’s try to make this app work.

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

@mmitchell.bsky.social has convinced me to use this app again :)

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

Bluesky slowly is becoming more than just a few people posting! Also — is this “skeet” a joke or real? I can’t say that without laughing.

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 29/04/2023

Wait… is that what they call it here? That is absolutely hilarious.

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

🌸lilacs are blooming🌸

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

Yeah it does! It’s so cute. And it contributes to a central database to track bird migration patterns. ~~For science~~

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

This is the coolest AI project I know of. Bird Buddy is a bird feeder + camera that classifies birds 🕊️

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 26/04/2023

Bluesky nailed the “omg I want an invite” even though features are identical. I don’t like when someone yells “8$” and makes me feel bad about it. Carrots not sticks!

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 25/04/2023

My profile photo is a microscopic image of pond water at 40x magnification and colors inverted. No AI in sight!

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