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Shantanu Vishwanadha

@thecoderpanda

DevRel @zencoderai | AI Agents

 India
thecoderpanda.com
Joined October 2014
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had a saturday. built a tiny thing that yells at me for shipping on fridays. it's called shipit-gate — a CLI that reads your git tree, asks TypeSafe's Jev model whether it's safe to ship, and exits non-zero when it isn't. no prompts. no JSON parsing. no vibes. just a typed boolean + confidence. hobby project · MIT · Part 1 of a Jev series 📦 npm i -g shipit-gate 🐙 github.com/thecoderpanda/shi… 📝 thecoderpanda.com/blog/shipi…
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Copilots got very good at writing code faster. They're still catastrophically bad at everything that happens around the code.
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Spent three months surveying 400+ engineering teams on where the week actually goes. The number that surprised me: 23% of dev time is lost to context switching between tools. Not building. Just re-loading state.
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Built an open-source smart speaker that runs on a Raspberry Pi. Uses your own API keys. Or the free tier of whichever LLM you want. Nothing leaves your network unless you tell it to.
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The most honest question a CTO ever asked me: "how do I know any of this is actually working?"
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The frontier labs keep announcing bigger context windows. 1M tokens. 2M. 10M on the roadmap. Meanwhile my agents get worse the more I stuff into them.
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Our best security engineer left last summer. Two weeks notice, gracious exit, wonderful person. She took a decade of tribal knowledge with her.
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Got paged at 3am last Tuesday. CI was red on main.
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Ran eight agents at once yesterday. Merged six of them by lunch. Not on some server farm. On my laptop.
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Shipped a feature Friday that would've taken two sprints.
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