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Director of Engineering at Comcast Labs. Former illustrator trying to get back to into art. I make pretty apps. https://arpitonline.com https://grocerytimer.app https://arpitmathur.substack.com/
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Ahhh man. I loved how easy getting a toy project up there was - guess that kind of work moves to the vibe coding platforms 🤷‍♂️ blog.glitch.com/post/changes...

One of my most used apps :( RIP #pocket support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fut...

Day 1 of #GoogleIO is a wrap

Surreal moment: Github Co-pilot committed a bug to our codebase and it was caught a few hours later in a Co-pilot powered code-review. These agents have figured out how software-engineer job security works 😂

Going from hearts to battery the same month they declared they were replacing contractors with AI? Coincidence? 😜🤖 www.theverge.com/news/665315/...

The bad news just keeps coming… phys.org/news/2025-05...

What a week, huh 😅? open.substack.com/pub/arpitmat...

The YCombinator "Request for Startups" post is always interesting to see the kinds of ideas that seem promising now www.ycombinator.com/rfs

Scary to imagine how the India/Pakistan conflict can escalate. Hope things cool down soon. But for now mostly praying that there were no non-terrorist casualties in the latest strikes. Also, fuck terrorists and those who empower them

🤔 technical.ly/civic-news/a...

This week's reads: AI impact on Software, Overly friendly LLMs, Shopify and Duolingo's AI mandates, AI & creativity and some surreal sci-fi interfaces open.substack.com/pub/arpitmat...

TIL that Andreesen Horowitz's Ben Horowitz's dad was the mentor to Stephen Miller www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4OC...

Another newsletter post with a barely successful attempt to not only share links on AI open.substack.com/pub/arpitmat...

👀 designyoutrust.com/2025/04/amaz...

Beautiful 👀 designyoutrust.com/2025/04/stri...

Wow! group.ntt/en/newsrelea...

The reliance on filtering concepts through the sieve of language can result in a loss of information ... “A lot of researchers are curious can you do reasoning purely in latent space?” www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-lang...

Looking forward to this.

Anyone try Notion mail yet? Any good? www.notion.com/product/mail...

My favorite reads from last week. AI news continues to dominate - but also, Dire Wolves! arpitmathur.substack.com/p/recent-rea...

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I tried Redwood a while back. I didn't feel any aha moment but seemed decent. Not sure how the tech has changed since then their vision does resonate with me. Anyone else try it yet? rwsdk.com/personal-sof...

[Bracket City] April 9, 2025 www.theatlantic.com/games/bracke... Rank: 🎖 (Mayor) ❌ Wrong guesses: 7 Total Score: 86.0 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜

👏 www.thewrap.com/laurene-powe...

Some thoughts on my experiences with coding assistants open.substack.com/pub/arpitmat...

Video footage obtained by NBC News shows the moment Rumeysa Ozturk was arrested. Oztur is a Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University with a valid student visa, her lawyer says.

This quote from Yes Prime Minister, a British show from the 80s, perfectly encapsulates the Republican view on climate change (had a long argument with someone I know on this one)

BREAKING: Democrats just secured major victories in two special elections in Pennsylvania. First, Democrats won a seat that gives them control of the state house. Second, Democrats flipped a Trump +15 Senate seat. aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-d...

It takes a village … of idiots www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Saw this quote on the Simpsons recently and now I can’t stop thinking about it every time I read a news headline about the latest Elon actions

Bookmarking this for a few folks from my diaspora who are republicans insisting that only “supporters of terrorism” are being rounded up at universities https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/nyregion/columbia-student-kristi-noem-video.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html

I am very excited for this https://people.com/ted-lasso-returning-for-season-4-with-jason-sudeikis-7507957

The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.

Spotted at my local library

Fund managers have said that Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda has instead unleashed a Make Europe Great Again trade that is reordering global financial markets. www.ft.com/content/2e81...

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Tesla China sells 30,688 cars in Feb, down 51% from Jan In the January-February period, Tesla China sold 93,926 vehicles, including exports, a decrease of 28.74 percent year-on-year. cnev.co/ZEnsGaz 👇

Is the answer to inefficient government organizations private corporations that efficiently pay their executives millions of dollars?

The dirtbag who asked Zelenskyy why he didn’t wear a suit to the WH meeting, Marge’s squeeze Brian Glenn, works for Real America’s Voice, an outfit owned by Robert J. Sigg. Take a look at the Wikipedia take on that shithead. Talk about disrespecting the Oval.

Has anyone tried Google’s Project IDX yet? Any thoughts? idx.dev

This is so relatable

It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation. I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

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Every day I think "Well, I can't possibly be more disgusted by these assholes leading the US can I?"....and every day I am wrong. Fuck them. 🇺🇦

Modern architecture is kinda amazing www.designboom.com/architecture...

My favorite reads for the week: open.substack.com/pub/arpitmat...