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Aditya Agarwal

Founding engineer | Building software at scale | Products used by 20M+ users

Location Sydney Joined Joined on  Personal website https://adioof.com

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BITS Pilani

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Svelte's runes are just React hooks wearing a Svelte hoodie
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Svelte's runes are just React hooks wearing a Svelte hoodie

#frontend #webdev #javascript #debate
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HTMX is fine until the third stakeholder wants a modal
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HTMX is fine until the third stakeholder wants a modal

#webdev #frontend #opinion #debate
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The Staff IC now out-earns the manager and it's not close
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The Staff IC now out-earns the manager and it's not close

#discuss #career #management #hiring
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Astral endorsing Python Council candidates is corporate capture in slow motion
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Astral endorsing Python Council candidates is corporate capture in slow motion

#discuss #python #opensource #tooling
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AI-generated websites are the Word Art era all over again
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AI-generated websites are the Word Art era all over again

#webdev #frontend #ux #opinion
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Postgres for everything hits a wall the moment dashboards get concurrent
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Postgres for everything hits a wall the moment dashboards get concurrent

#database #performance #architecture #opinion
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Feature flags are the loaded gun modern deploys pretend is safe
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Feature flags are the loaded gun modern deploys pretend is safe

#reliability #devops #programming #opinion
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A little copy-paste is cheaper than the wrong abstraction
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A little copy-paste is cheaper than the wrong abstraction

#programming #opinion #debate #devlife
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text-box-trim is the best CSS feature in years and nobody's using it yet
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text-box-trim is the best CSS feature in years and nobody's using it yet

#css #frontend #webdev #opinion
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Function coloring is real and pretending context propagation isn't infection
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Function coloring is real and pretending context propagation isn't infection

#go #concurrency #programming #debate
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Whiteboard interviews died the day AI could solve them live
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Whiteboard interviews died the day AI could solve them live

#discuss #hiring #career #opinion
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AI labs cutting off Cursor and Windsurf is the platform risk nobody priced in
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AI labs cutting off Cursor and Windsurf is the platform risk nobody priced in

#ai #tooling #architecture #debate
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C++ isn't losing to Rust. The infra it runs is the moat.
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C++ isn't losing to Rust. The infra it runs is the moat.

#cpp #programming #performance #opinion
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The three-state dark mode toggle is the correct answer
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The three-state dark mode toggle is the correct answer

#css #ux #frontend #webdev
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StyleX won CSS-in-JS because AI agents can read it
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StyleX won CSS-in-JS because AI agents can read it

#frontend #css #webdev #tooling
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RTO mandates are just layoffs that skip the severance check
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RTO mandates are just layoffs that skip the severance check

#discuss #career #culture #management
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Shift Left was how ops got fired and devs got the pager
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Shift Left was how ops got fired and devs got the pager

#devops #culture #career #opinion
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Reviewing AI code from juniors is slower than writing it yourself
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Reviewing AI code from juniors is slower than writing it yourself

#discuss #ai #culture #opinion
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Standby pay at $3 an hour is a wage for owning your whole evening
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Standby pay at $3 an hour is a wage for owning your whole evening

#career #culture #devlife #oncall
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Retries didn't make GitHub resilient. They DDoS'd it.
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Retries didn't make GitHub resilient. They DDoS'd it.

#distributedsystems #reliability #architecture #opinion
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Meta reassigned engineers to data labeling and the good ones walked
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Meta reassigned engineers to data labeling and the good ones walked

#career #culture #management #opinion
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GUIs should have been keyboard-first this whole time
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GUIs should have been keyboard-first this whole time

#ux #tooling #devlife #opinion
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Tying bonuses to badge swipes is how you teach people to game you
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Tying bonuses to badge swipes is how you teach people to game you

#discuss #career #culture #devlife
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The 2 a.m. AI interview is how companies stopped interviewing back
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The 2 a.m. AI interview is how companies stopped interviewing back

#discuss #hiring #career #culture
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Go 1.27 banning generic methods from interfaces is the honest move
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Go 1.27 banning generic methods from interfaces is the honest move

#go #programming #opinion #debate
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Swift 6 turned working code into a compile error and iOS devs are furious
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Swift 6 turned working code into a compile error and iOS devs are furious

#swift #concurrency #mobile #programming
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Seven interview rounds is a confession that your bar is broken
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Seven interview rounds is a confession that your bar is broken

#discuss #hiring #career #opinion
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Postgres as your message queue is a SPOF you'll regret at 3am
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Postgres as your message queue is a SPOF you'll regret at 3am

#postgres #architecture #database #debate
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Polyglot persistence was the mistake. Postgres was always enough.
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Polyglot persistence was the mistake. Postgres was always enough.

#database #postgres #architecture #opinion
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Rust's async story is still an embarrassment for web APIs
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Rust's async story is still an embarrassment for web APIs

#rust #concurrency #webdev #opinion
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The $11k cloud bill was mostly the tools you added to watch the cloud bill
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The $11k cloud bill was mostly the tools you added to watch the cloud bill

#devops #cloud #observability #opinion
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The Bun rewrite proves 'never rewrite from scratch' was always a cope
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The Bun rewrite proves 'never rewrite from scratch' was always a cope

#opinion #rust #ai #programming
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Barrel files are the clean-code habit quietly wrecking your bundle
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Barrel files are the clean-code habit quietly wrecking your bundle

#frontend #webdev #nextjs #performance
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Go 1.26 iterators turned the simplest language into functional spaghetti
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Go 1.26 iterators turned the simplest language into functional spaghetti

#go #programming #opinion #debate
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Virtual threads didn't scale your app. They just moved the crash to your database.
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Virtual threads didn't scale your app. They just moved the crash to your database.

#java #performance #database #concurrency
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The 72-hour dependency cooldown is security theater that breaks your builds
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The 72-hour dependency cooldown is security theater that breaks your builds

#security #devops #supplychain #dependencies
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OpenAI buying Astral means uv now answers to a model company
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OpenAI buying Astral means uv now answers to a model company

#python #opensource #governance #opinion
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Go error handling won and the if err != nil crowd deserves the win
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Go error handling won and the if err != nil crowd deserves the win

#go #programming #opinion #debate
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Agile fatigue isn't about Agile. It's about who holds the stopwatch.
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Agile fatigue isn't about Agile. It's about who holds the stopwatch.

#culture #devlife #opinion #communication
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The AI-native junior can't debug and we're pretending that's fine
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The AI-native junior can't debug and we're pretending that's fine

#career #ai #culture #hiring
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The Hutter Prize measures intelligence better than any OpenAI benchmark
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The Hutter Prize measures intelligence better than any OpenAI benchmark

#discuss #ai #programming #opinion
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Codeberg banning AI code is not a cult. It's a boundary.
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Codeberg banning AI code is not a cult. It's a boundary.

#discuss #opensource #ai #community
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Platform teams became the new gatekeepers we said we hated
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Platform teams became the new gatekeepers we said we hated

#devops #platform #culture #debate
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The slot machine workflow is the real vibe coding problem
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The slot machine workflow is the real vibe coding problem

#discuss #ai #productivity #devlife
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The Staff engineer with 4 years of experience is a hiring problem we made
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The Staff engineer with 4 years of experience is a hiring problem we made

#discuss #career #hiring #culture
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Compliance-grade pentesting is a scan wearing a suit
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Compliance-grade pentesting is a scan wearing a suit

#discuss #security #compliance #culture
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An AI chatbot invented a refund policy and a court made the company pay
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An AI chatbot invented a refund policy and a court made the company pay

#ai #legal #chatbots #opinion
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Devs are adding typos to prove they're not ChatGPT and that's bleak
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Devs are adding typos to prove they're not ChatGPT and that's bleak

#discuss #culture #devlife #communication
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Interviewing off leetcode you already memorized isn't cheating, it's the job

Candidates must fake initial ineptitude
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Interviewing off leetcode you already memorized isn't cheating, it's the job

#discuss #hiring #interview #career
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Design Engineer is the title that quietly ends your career
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Design Engineer is the title that quietly ends your career

#discuss #career #frontend #webdev
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Go's static linking is a security tax nobody warned you about
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Go's static linking is a security tax nobody warned you about

#go #security #packaging #debate
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One bounded context per microservice is how you build a distributed monolith
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One bounded context per microservice is how you build a distributed monolith

#architecture #microservices #softwareengineering #opinion
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Server Actions blur the client-server line and juniors are paying for it
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Server Actions blur the client-server line and juniors are paying for it

#nextjs #frontend #security #webdev
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The keystroke-counting RTO metric is a confession, not a policy
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The keystroke-counting RTO metric is a confession, not a policy

#career #remote #culture #opinion
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SQLite runs more production than the modern data stack wants you to believe
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SQLite runs more production than the modern data stack wants you to believe

#architecture #softwareengineering #opinion #programming
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Vanilla CSS quietly caught up and Tailwind fans haven't noticed.
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Vanilla CSS quietly caught up and Tailwind fans haven't noticed.

#css #webdev #frontend #opinion
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Your NAT gateway is a $30k landmine and nobody warns juniors
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Your NAT gateway is a $30k landmine and nobody warns juniors

#cloud #cost #architecture #devops
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The monolith won. Most teams just haven't admitted it yet.
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The monolith won. Most teams just haven't admitted it yet.

#softwareengineering #architecture #cloud #cost
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The most expensive outages return HTTP 200
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The most expensive outages return HTTP 200

#devops #observability #cloud #cost
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uv is amazing and that's exactly what should scare Python devs
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uv is amazing and that's exactly what should scare Python devs

#discuss #python #opensource #devtools
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