AI R&D at @cribl_io | Hiring researchers & developers | Purpose built models for observability, telemetry, and security
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I asked Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus 5.5 to predict population density across 13 mile wide squares across the US.
NightLightsBench measures how well models can predict population density and nights lights. Why population? Land/water classification from coordinates is close to saturated for current models. Population is harder: it spans several orders of magnitude and depends on economics and history as well as physical geography. Most models do well on major metros but you'll see that they diverge on mid-sized and small towns. nightlightsbench.vercel.app
When it comes to real tasks that IT and Security practitioners undertake, you can see open weight outperform on both performance AND price.
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Nikhil Mungel retweeted
Your robot arm is probably already supported by LeRobot. You just don't know it yet.
The community has shipped 30+ hardware integrations: xArm, UR5e, Franka, Trossen, AgileX Piper, I2RT YAM, ARX5, ugo Pro, Quest and PICO 4 teleop, GELLO, Haply Inverse3 haptics, ROS 2 bridges.
Most of them are drop-in plugins.
pip install
pass --robot.type=...
and you're recording datasets. No fork, no patching our repo.
huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/…
Nikhil Mungel retweeted
#AI promises total automation for security investigations...
...but the reality is that teams are hitting a wall: investigations remain agonizingly slow.
The failure isn't the AI, it’s the data feeding the machine.
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Nikhil Mungel retweeted
🎆 New year, new #devops enginner! We've got your perfect resolution to help you fully embrace #AI in 2026: Develop the skills required to use AI for solving development and engineering challenges: bit.ly/45rO8yg
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Nikhil Mungel retweeted
Having some AI follow you into your zoom meetings or google meet for taking notes is the digital equivalent of showing up to a meeting with your fly down
Nikhil Mungel retweeted
With $FIG we have another massive "POP" highlighting the gross inefficiency in the modern IPO process. It's very simple. They REFUSE to match supply/demand (that happened today). They brag about the mis-match - "30X oversubscribed." The outcome is expected & fully intentional.
Nikhil Mungel retweeted
Founders:
You hire someone early and think you’re being generous. A decent salary. A chunk of equity. Maybe a little freedom in how they work.
Then a few months in, you start to feel the drift. They’re still here, but their energy’s not. They do the work, but nothing sticks. And then one day they tell you they’re out.
You replay it all in your head. The offer. The excitement. The slack messages. You can’t figure out what changed.
What changed was belief.
They couldn’t see how the pain would turn into payoff. And once that gap opens, it’s hard to close.
You didn’t do anything wrong. Not exactly. You just missed something that’s easy to miss.
You thought giving equity meant you’d created ownership. But without visibility, that equity feels like a story. Without autonomy, it feels like a bet they can’t control. And without a role they can shape, it feels like work that only gets harder.
People don’t need perfect clarity. But they need something they can hold onto. Something that makes the late nights feel like investment, not sacrifice. Something that makes the frustration worth pushing through.
Most early teams don’t fall apart because the work is too hard. They fall apart because no one knows if the work will count.
It’s not about giving more. It’s about making the trade feel real. That if we figure this out, you don’t just keep your job, you change your life.
That only happens when people know what they’re aiming at. When they can trace the value they create to the outcome they’ll share in. When they can shape decisions, not just execute them.
You don’t have to fix it all at once. Just start telling people how they win. Show them what happens if this works. Ask if they believe it. Ask what they’d need to believe it more. Ask if their role is still theirs or if they’re just borrowing it for now.
You’re not alone if you missed this. Everyone learns it eventually. Usually too late.
But if you catch it early, the people who stay will build the company like it’s theirs. Because in every way that matters, it will be.