Shivam Raghuwanshi

Movies teach us lessons, help us uncover truths about ourselves, act as a window into other time periods and places, and give us empathy. What other medium delivers these gifts in 120 minutes or less? Yes! I am a Cinephile🤞

UPI won India. Why is the RBI expanding the Digital Rupee (e₹)? Because e₹ is 'programmable cash' that works offline without banks. Paper cash gives total anonymity. Programmable money is traceable to the last rupee. Would you swap cash for CBDCs? #Fintech #RBI #CBDC

India is funding 'Sovereign AI' to escape US model reliance, subsidizing 30,000+ GPUs under the ₹10k Cr IndiaAI Mission. The catch: every 'sovereign' model runs on imported Nvidia chips. Can you have sovereign intelligence without sovereign silicon? #AI #Tech #India

FASTag ended cash queues. Now GNSS satellite tolling wants to kill booths: pay per km with zero barrier stops. Seamless for highways. But per-km tolls require real-time satellite tracking of your car. Is frictionless travel worth 24/7 tracking? #Tech #NHAI #Privacy #India

Until now, forgetting to declare a $50 tech ESOP in Schedule FA triggered a ₹10 Lakh Black Money fine. The IT dept just enabled Form 1 (FADS 2026) for one-time relief. Relief for engineers, but why did employee stock grants ever trigger black money laws? #Tax #Tech #India

Every automation builder learns this the hard way: Stop using an AI agent for what an IF filter does in 2ms for $0. Deterministic logic for routing. AI only for ambiguity. The most reliable agent systems are 80% static code and 20% LLM. #AIAgents #Automation

In the West, EVs mean $60k cars. In India, 85% of EV sales are 2 & 3-wheelers. Yet while 2-wheelers make up 78% of charging sessions, cars devour 67% of grid energy. Can our grid handle mass electric cars, or is India forever 2-wheeler first? #EV #CleanTech #India

India built a $10B quick-commerce market on 10-minute delivery. The trade-off? Over 2 lakh local kiranas shut down. Convenience won today. But what happens to consumer prices when neighborhood competition dies and apps double platform fees? #QuickCommerce #Startups #India

Indian IT’s 30-year formula broke: profits are rising, but headcounts are falling. TCS margins hit 25% while headcount fell by 23,000. AI coding and outcome billing mean fewer junior devs needed. Great for margins, but is the entry-level IT dream fading? #Tech #AI #Jobs

Instead of total internet shutdowns, TRAI wants a precision fix: block WhatsApp while keeping UPI & banking online. Pragmatic on paper, but giving telcos rails to target specific encrypted apps is a huge net neutrality trade-off. Triage or control? #Tech #TRAI #Privacy

India’s new E-Commerce Rules take aim at fake discounts: platforms must now display the lowest price from the last 30 days alongside any sale price. No more inflating base prices to slap '70% OFF'. Will festive sales finally become honest? #Ecommerce #Tech #India

Everyone hypes 3nm AI chips, but India's Semicon 2.0 is doubling down on 'boring' 28nm+ legacy silicon, equipment & chemicals. Unsexy? Yes. But 28nm runs 80% of cars, defense & grids. Smart foundation first, or are we subsidizing yesterday's tech? #SemiconIndia #Tech #AI

Free UPI was fun while it lasted. Starting Oct 15, merchant UPI over ₹2k attracts 0.4% MDR. P2P remains free. With cash in circulation at a record ₹42.8T, will shops start offering 'cash discounts' to dodge fees, or is convenience unbeatable? #UPI #Fintech #RBI

Vector search treats data as isolated islands. Fine for simple lookups. But when an agent needs multi-hop reasoning across docs, cosine distance fails. Production RAG doesn't just need embeddings. It needs GraphRAG and relationship graphs. #AIAgents #Engineering

40% of queries in agent workflows are semantically identical. Exact string caching misses them. Semantic caching via vector distance drops latency from 2,000ms to 20ms and cuts token bills in half. Before upgrading models, cache intent. #AIAgents #Engineering

Building custom REST API wrappers for AI agents is dead. Before Model Context Protocol (MCP), connecting tools across models was an M×N nightmare of glue code. MCP standardized the tool layer. Stop writing custom API wrappers. #AIAgents #SoftwareEngineering

Everyone’s flexing neon and synth-pop, meanwhile I’m out here flexing the real ’80s power move: green phosphor screens, a massive 10MB drive, and floppy disks for days. 💾📟 #RetroTech #80sAesthetic #DeskSetup

Testing AI agents with playground prompts isn't QA. It's a vibe check. A single prompt tweak silently breaks 20% of tool-calling edge cases. If your CI/CD doesn't run automated trajectory evals before merging, you're flying blind. #AIAgents #SoftwareEngineering

POV: debugging at 2AM while Walter White watches you cook. 💀 One screen: code. Other screen: “I am the one who knocks.” Peak tech life. 😂💻

Companies spend millions on AI agents, yet only 7% have data ready for them. If your CRM fields are dirty and database schemas are messy, a smarter LLM won't save you. It just fails with higher confidence. The real AI moat isn't intelligence. It's data hygiene.