Rahul Pandita

Preprint and blogpost coming soon

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.

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...

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...

Weekend XC with my favorite passenger(s). The mini-mes were not impressed

Mine is half-baked, rotting in Overleaf and Google Docs!

What ChatGPT thinks I did this year

For very large values of Sometimes

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100 mph wind gusts

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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.

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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

As agentic and human parallelism explode with exponential increasing in code output via LLMs , I think that’s the next frontier we should be optimizing for in code models.

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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.

fry from futurama is eating a bunch of money . ALT: fry from futurama is eating a bunch of money .

Hehe

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

testing http://ferryman.io

<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

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, …

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...

Some thoughts on LLMs, Autopilot, and VibeCoding rahulpandita.me/blog/2025-10...

plane animation inspired by @wattenberger.com's wattenberger.com/thoughts/fis...

डिग्रियाँ तो तालीम के खर्चें की रसीदें है… Dr. Vikas Divyakirti sir letest shayari YouTube video by K C Meena RPF

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQtX...

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...

There is high likelyhood of the Bidding wars in AI companies to converge on global maxima of Nelson Bighetti (aka Big Head).

awesome work by @kcieslak.io

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.

Like my dad, we will glitch in real-time to adjust our 9-channel knob mindset to a 999-channel remote, but I am confident that we can overcome it. And the sudden "1000-fold expansion of possible coding universe" is only going to increase the demand for programming(pun intended)...