Arsalan Bashir
@arsalanbashir
founder @livedocshq • love data, chess, and small ML models
PSA: When your fav app says they will "delete" pictures/files/etc — they likely won't. If you're lucky they might: - set a "deleted_at" field on a database, but not actually delete the thing (aka: soft delete) - just delete a db reference, but not the actual file/etc
Data problems are hard for both LLMs and humans for the same reason: business context Limiting context to just schema and descriptions builds "chat with your data" toys, not serious data products A rule of thumb is: what would you teach a junior engineer to have them solve…
Give me a war, and give me this team: @ehsaan_iqbal @sd0br @sam_uiux Any place, any time
Professional jiu jitsu mats at @Replit HQ in Foster City. Let’s go!
but still, my gravest insult is that you are not fundamentally curious, and for that there is no cure
I am so proud to be surrounded by believers and people with serious ambition in all walks of life. From the Livedocs team to my friends and training partners, the quality of people is at an all time high. This was an area of life that I did not take seriously.…
Every employee must know how to survive a headlock 🤷♂️
“How was your first day interning at @withhup?” 3:30am on the first day:
You: Should we use Snowflake or ClickHouse? Us: Yes. Livedocs now supports both — with compute pushdown for speed and scale!
If you think missionaries mean immunity against mercenaries, you haven't really met good mercenaries
Microsoft claims their new AI framework diagnoses 4x better than doctors. I'm a medical doctor and I actually read the paper. Here's my perspective on why this is both impressive AND misleading ... 🧵
I wish for everyone to experience at least once in their life the peace that exists between tahajjud and fajr I’ve tried meditation, yoga nidra, and pretty much everything under the sun. Nothing comes close
If you failed to plan during the week, you can still cope with style
Cursor with the chat on the right is the only right way to do it. If you have the chat on the left, I have bad news 🤷♂️
Our collective and individual search for meaning is perhaps an underrated evolutionary force Culture, religion, and the "unwritten global social contract" are the result of us trying to find meaning in the face of cosmic indifference Happy friday, and Eid Mubarak to all those…