There is nothing permanent except change. – Heraclitus
Rahul Pandita
@rahulpandita.bsky.social
In no particular order: developer, researcher, dad, engineer, student-pilot. Tweets are mine & are not endorsed by my employer. #GitHubNext #Copilot #AI
Richer issues are the key to OSS contributions as code slinging becomes trivial. https://ferryman.io/r/gXXVozjd
The New OSS — Samuel Kahessay
The bottleneck in open source is moving from coding to diagnosis. This is what happens when it does.
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Paper accepted at MSR 2026 : "Investigating Autonomous Agent Contributions in the Wild." It was an absolute pleasure working with the extremely talented coauthors Razvan Mihai Popescu, David Gros, Andrei Boţocan, Maliheh Izadi , and Prem Thomas Devanbu.
My experience jerry-rigging a web app to build software on my phone. It's more feasible than you think. rahulpandita.me/blog/2026-01...
Coding on a Phone: What I Learned Building Software on Mobile in the Last Three Weeks
Over the past few weeks—largely out of a sense of FOMO—I’ve been forcing myself to do something I’ve fantasized about for a long time: building software primari...
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Weekend XC with my favorite passenger(s). The mini-mes were not impressed
TIL that adding a screenshot as an input to iterate with Copilot is not that widely known. I've been using it for a while to streamline/debug my UX code.
Lately, I've been experimenting with agentic PR reviews. Here's the prompt I use. I'm curious what you folks use: https://gist.github.com/rahulpandita/ebc337ca7a6c67823cdcca065d04fc4a
Model builders, if you're taking recommendations, I would love to have a coding model that is really good at git rebase, merges, and resolving conflicts.
Karpathy's suggestion of using LLMs as a simulation machine "Who are the best people to answer XYZ and what would they say about it?" is a wonderful self-reflection heuristic. Leverage it to the fullest before the next round of RLHF makes it ineffective for upcoming models. 💡
How the programming evolved from pressing ctrl+C and ctrl+V to clicking Allow
We are at a point were model capability is not a limiting factor human cognition is
<3 Aviation Recap! #ffRecap https://plan.foreflight.com/recap/c6c14ff8-ce09-47a0-be09-3ee96bfedf79 via @ForeFlight
Not everyday you get to perform run-up in your tiny cessna next to a T-6 Texan
My latest post is out! 🔄 Introduce "Semi-automatic Performance Engineering" 🏆 A Grand Challenge for CS 🧩 Why it's hard, heterogeneous ✨ Show GitHub Agentic Workflows "Daily Perf Improver" 🔮 What's Possible, Potential, and Delusional 🧹 Let's tackle technical debt! dsyme.net/2025/10/12/t...
Introducing Semi-automatic Performance Engineering
(This blog post is written in personal tone, but relates to our work at GitHub Next and may be moved to in future. A huge thank you to Peli de Halleux, Joe Zhou, Eddie Aftandilian, Russell Horton, …
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Degrees are merely proof of the money you've spent on a course. Education is knowing how to use what you learned. rahulpandita.me/blog/2025-06...
Rahul Pandita
Rahul Pandita - Software Engineer, Developer, and Researcher
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There is high likelyhood of the Bidding wars in AI companies to converge on global maxima of Nelson Bighetti (aka Big Head).
Leadville (KLXV) North Americas highest elevation (9934’) airport ✅ Mt Elbert Colorado’s tallest peak in the background!!
I'm now a FAA-certified private pilot(ASEL) and can joke that I'm a pilot working on @githubnext.com #Copilot.
Growing up, I always found it both frustrating and amusing to see my dad glitch in real-time when we switched from a 9-channel TV operated by a knob to a 999-channel TV operated by a remote.
Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · last yr.One interesting thing I've learned when talking with GitHub CEO @ashtom.bsky.social last week is how GitHub is hiring *more* early-careers devs (interns / new grads) as before. I asked: why? Given lots of companies are hiring less assuming AI might be at the level of a junior dev (cont'd)
AI won't resolve process issues; it only rapidly reduces the time to failure due to them.
The Prometheus principles to human-centered AI design t.co/xMJzA75GUj
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04087
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"Automatically setting up, building, and testing a developer environment to aid Agentic Software Development." with tamás and davidslater githubnext.com/projects/dis...
GitHub Next | Discovery Agent
GitHub Next Project: Agentic Setup, Build, and Testing of Repositories.
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Devcontainers are the way forward to share the runtime between vibe coding devs and fledgling autonomous agents…
