Kabir Khandpur

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

Implementing 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?

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