Nikhil Thorat

21 Sept 2025

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

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 🧵

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.

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.

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 🧵

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.

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”

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 🧵

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.

11 Dec 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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11 Dec 2024

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30 Nov 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.

24 Nov 2024

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

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…

19 Nov 2024

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

5 Nov 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.

4 Oct 2023

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

9 May 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.

28 Apr 2023

🌸lilacs are blooming🌸

27 Apr 2023

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

26 Apr 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!