Harsh Nisar: the lack of ability to build provided a natural resistance for government to not build the stupider ideas. Now we need to figure out a way to artificially introduce resistance in these projects

Harsh: they have a project to count the number of apps, and portals etc. the government of india (alone, nit counting state governments and independent bodies) have apps in the 5 digits!!

Kailash Nadh: we have a policy to not institutionalise vibe coded applications

Kailash Nadh: I want to keep all the context of the tech in my head. K don’t use skills, or agent.md, or anything else to keep my conversations ephemeral

Kailash: if code is cheap or largely dead, we can come back to actual problem solving. All that is standing between a person and a solution are developing the actual human skills of talking to people and figuring it out.

Kailash: “react sucks and nobody should use it” amen :)

Tarunima Prabhakar: quotes Djikstras notes on advanced programming written in 1962, which is exactly relevant to our present time

Tarunima: if you are able to reach yourself there will always be a place for you in industry and society

Ambika: Think about resilience and adaptability and not skills and chops with respect to a career

Harsh: increase your surface area for serendipity.

Kailash: we - civilisationally as humans - need to stop bounding technology to mean software.