Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct

copyconstruct.medium.com San Francisco, CA Joined July 2010

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Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

2 days ago

Them: We need a modern Bell Labs. Me: It's called Google, they invented all the AI stuff. Them: ...But Google didn't even profit off of the stuff they invented! Me: ...Tell me what you know about Bell Labs...

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Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct

3 weeks ago

The fact that this site is now 76% b o t s tells me that the old Twitter verification process, which had gatekeepers and was perhaps a touch too restrictive (and sure, it led to stupid clout games of why some Twitter famous personality wasn’t “verified”) worked better than this.

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Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct

4 weeks ago

The @nytimes doesn’t report “news” anymore. Just “juicy collection of narratives” with click-baity headlines, which then unleashes a tsunami of hysteria against all kinds of targets. Mainstream media, with notable exceptions, is 1-2 years “behind” most trends and happenings.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch

2 months ago

But, plot twist: The much-discussed contraction in entry-level tech hiring appears to have *reversed* in recent months. In fact, relative to the pre-generative AI era, recent grads have secured coding jobs at the same rate as they’ve found any job, if not slightly higher.

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Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct

2 months ago

AI agent demos would be better if they did tasks like contest an insurance claim (tedious work) than make a reservation at a restaurant. When I go out to eat, I want to personally explore menus, check out photos etc. It’s part of the fun, and I don’t want AI automating fun.

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Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct

2 months ago

One thing AI models are *really* a godsend for is … scripting with bash. Bash is so terrible in so many ways, yet it’s ubiquitous and often the best tool for many tasks. Having AI models write most of my bash with me just having to do minor edits is such a luxury.

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Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct

2 months ago

As code *generation* becomes solely the purview of AI, code *review*, qualification etc becomes all the more important. I expect people who review code to have *more* subject matter expertise, not less, especially for critical production code involving money or confidentiality.

Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz

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Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct

2 months ago

Personally, I don’t feel the need to join in with everyone saying how tacky Bezos’s wedding was. If you’re vaguely familiar with Indian oligarch weddings, Bezos’s wedding feels like a quiet affair in comparison. 😅 A price tag of “only” 66m is like Walmart wedding territory.

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Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct

2 months ago

As widespread use of AI for “homework” becomes the norm, I wonder if Western countries will adopt the Asian approach of … having your grades entirely be determined by closed book, hand-written tests and exams, where you’re not allowed your phone, or calculators, or computers.

The Verge @verge

3 months ago

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Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct

3 months ago

This might be one anecdote, but what a soul-crushing environment to work in, with no leadership, no engineering mission, no camaraderie between coworkers, no clear ownership … just isolation and disorientation. And to think of all the VCs who said go work for Twitter 2.0 …

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James Cowling @jamesacowling

3 months ago

The #1 rule of scalable systems is to avoid congestion collapse. This is when a system slows down, starts timing out, then gets hammered by retries that also time out, in an infinite loop. I’ve accidentally broken Dropbox and Convex this way. Here's 7 tips how not to:

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Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct

3 months ago

2021 was 4 years ago, which is quite a long period of time, but it just doesn’t *feel* that long ago to me. I vividly remember 2017, 2018, 2019, and even 2020. But 2021 - 2025 has become something of a blur that I can’t really tell apart. 🙁

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Joe Magerramov @_joemag_

3 months ago

Recently, I've been discussing throttling with one of our teams. It's a super deep topic, probably deeper than it gets credit in modern systems, so I decided to write some thoughts on the matter: blog.joemag.dev/2025/06/the-nu…