rrvsh

Willing to relocate: Yes, preferably to San Francisco, but also open to New York and London. I am a Singapore citizen and eligible for the H-1B1 route for US roles.

Technologies: Python, Rust, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Nix/NixOS, Linux, AWS, GCP, Docker, CI/CD, observability, backend and platform engineering

Résumé/CV: https://rrv.sh/assets/cv.pdf

Email: [email protected]

I'm a backend/platform engineer. I was previously a founding engineer at a B2B startup, where I worked across the backend, frontend, infrastructure, deployment, integrations, and internal workflows. I'm currently doing production reliability and cloud migration work at Autodesk.

I like working on messy problems where I can figure out what needs to exist, build it, and then deal with the boring work required to keep it running. Outside work I spend a lot of time building things with Rust and Nix, mostly around developer tooling, personal infrastructure, and AI agents. Some of that is at https://github.com/rrvsh, and I write about whatever I'm working on at https://rrv.sh.

I'm mostly looking for backend, platform, infrastructure, developer tooling, or high-ownership startup roles.

Comment · 1 month ago

Surely you realize how rare the ability to do this is

Comment · 1 month ago

Yes, I really don't like Astra - 5.6 models seemed to perform at literally the same level with less opaque prose; I guess Astra is great if you're working on insanely hard mathematical problems (or are fooled by its masked sycophancy) but for coding 5.6 seems to have better taste. I hope that they course correct or at least offer models that do better for coding, or even better that this oligopoly ends

Comment · 1 month ago

I found that 6 Sol is dogshit; have you tried o5.5 vs. 5.6 sol? curious to hear if your experience is still the same in that regard

Comment · 1 month ago

It doesn't - try it first

Comment · 1 month ago

Its really not tiny; you can't compare Claude to GPT, they have honestly diverged enough that as the other reply said, 256k GPT is about equal to 1M Claude. The compaction is slightly annoying, and you can turn it up to 1M as you said if you truly need everything in context, but otherwise it's perfectly serviceable

Comment · 1 month ago

Hard agree

I had to switch back to 5.6 Sol after trialling 6 Sol for like 3 days - I was getting insanely annoyed at how misaligned it is. Will try 6.1 but not very high hopes

Comment · 1 month ago

I feel like everyone is focusing on the AI bottleneck hook rather than what the actual article is about. I enjoyed it a lot; my lowkey favourite thing is optimising CI beyond reasonable levels

Comment · 2 months ago

Hire this guy he's cracked

Comment · 2 months ago

Location: Singapore

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, preferably to San Francisco, but also open to New York and London. I am a Singapore citizen and eligible for the H-1B1 route for US roles.

Technologies: Python, Rust, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Nix/NixOS, Linux, AWS, GCP, Docker, CI/CD, observability, backend and platform engineering

Résumé/CV: https://rrv.sh/assets/cv.pdf

Email: [email protected]

I'm mostly looking for backend, platform, infrastructure, developer tooling, or high-ownership startup roles.

Comment · 2 months ago

This is a bit silly, and has the same tinge as lolcow posts about asking "Chat" when "my son in 3rd grade is going to graduate college". There are a million fasting apps that show based on how long its been since your last meal what is happening in your body, say ketosis or autophagy. Off the top of my head for Android there's Easy Fast, Zero, MyFastingApp (OSS); it's public information that doesn't require inference to derive

Comment · 2 months ago

Haven't they been migrating to Azure for a few years? How is it still only 58% done... Microslop needs to lay off the focus on AI features and get it done