Kabir Khandpur

Three levels of noticing·

I see, but I do not observe.

What I'm listening to, mid-2026·

A collection of songs that I've enjoyed this year so far.

SWE-bench Multilingual·

Introducing a new dataset in the SWE-bench family with 300 curated tasks in 9 programming languages to evaluate LLMs on software engineering tasks.

How well can LLMs see?·

Creating a small benchmark to test how well multimodal language models can find specific objects in complex Where's Waldo-style illustrations.

Using the checker idiom to monitor software systems·

Exploring a missing piece of the software observability stack to monitor business logic.

Making Quartz site rebuilds 25x faster·

How I implemented partial builds to reduce the time taken to live reload a static site by >99%.

Notes on Britain's finances·

A look into how the UK government raises and spends money.

Why is Singapore's public transport so good?·

An analysis of Singapore's excellent public transportation system.

Responses·

You're wandering around the party with a drink in hand.

How much does Stevie Wonder sing about the seasons?·

An interactive visualisation of lyrics from Stevie's discography.

Against trivia·

Says on the tin.