design, technology and everything in between! spent summer at LSE / curr. building / prev @Cadence, @Qualcomm mostly rants / observations

Taiwan
Joined June 2010
Kindness > Honesty > Clarity > Correctness > Efficiency. - Jeff Erickson (Prof. of CS, UIUC) – at Hsinchu City, Taiwan
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i simply cannot understand how people are flaunting the fact that they are spawning out thousands of agents and achieving infinite productivity does that mean that the business is becoming 1000x? is sales going up 1000x?
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my intuition is all these hyper inflated ai companies will see the same fate as the ed-tech companies in india after the funding dries out ======== this cannot keep going on forever like an infinite money glitch
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Sethupathi Balakrishnan retweeted
I stand my ground in saying that GrokBot (or equivalents i tried for all it matters) are just a slop productivity factory made to make you feel busy, while your actual productivity is cratering.
This is f*cking insane. SpaceXAI senior engineer (ex-Cursor): "99% of people open one GrokBot, ask it a question and close the tab I run 50+ GrokBot agents like a company. A Chief of Staff runs my day, 3 PMs hand out the work, 40+ workers ship it overnight, and I just check the results over coffee. That team does the job of 20 engineers" In this 1-hour workshop, SpaceXAI builds that GrokBot team from scratch, step by step GrokBot → Chief of Staff → PMs → 40+ Workers → Autonomous Company At SpaceXAI, 97% of engineers already run a team like this, and the ones who do are getting $750K+ offers. The rest are about to compete with them Worth more than any $5,000 agentic engineering course Bookmark it and watch today Then read how to build your own team of GrokBot agents in the harness engineering guide below ↓
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semiconductor industry will never pay premium for any talent i hate this industry and there are people filled with zero sum mindset
If you are in the semi conductor industry and have seen the end-to-end chip design process or in the gaming industry and shipped AAA games, or any such traditionally underpaid (compared to SW) industries, now is perhaps the most opportune time to leverage those skills and command that premium - the market is ripe for such talent. Everyone wants to accelerate closing the verification loop in many such domains and human expertise is the bottleneck
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this looks very similar to the demo from world labs
Vogue. Shot on 70 iPhone 18 Pro
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Sethupathi Balakrishnan retweeted
corporate culture is so funny. companies want employees who think like owners but compensate them like replaceable resources.
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"your empathy for others must not outweigh the boundaries you hold for yourself"
your empathy for others must not outweigh the boundaries you hold for yourself
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oh hell yeah
btw indian vc ecosystem has become pattern following playbook and thats what hurts it the most the same capital, will chase indian founders at extreme higher valuation for a company that is located in blr post a fundraise after yc or some american vcs while they did have the opportunity to get in lower valuations to summarise, indian vc wants american vcs to underwrite the risk and they are totally comfortable to then participate even if valuations are unreasonable for their fund mandate because at the end they want to be able to say to their lps in case they lose money "well, yc also invested" and that mentality is like that scene of yuvraj singh entry in dhoni movie, you lost the match even before you got into the field if before deploying capital and all the time you're thinking about what would we answer to the lps - dont raise fund - be a better salesman and sell the vision - be outright practical that we only fund bhujiya companies and don't virtue signal and be pretentious
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indian vc’s getting their fair share of belting and i’m loving it mooooore
Why are Indian VCs so afraid to take risk and make money? Someone should go to India and take risk and make money. Our story - corememory.com/p/a-new-india…
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yes, this mindset exists even at the top 1% earners india will always remain to be a low trust society
India is just an ugly country and you understand the problem after you step outside the country. Indians enjoy the potholes, the street dogs, the cow dung and they take pride in terrible civic sense like throwing garbage out of the car window and spitting in open public. We are born in an environment that has normalised mindless and dirty habits.
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no, also happens in jp, dxb, tw
Periodic reminder that this only happens in India cuz they won't spend on upgrading the scanning machines.
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Sethupathi Balakrishnan retweeted
Sometimes in your 20s or 30s you’ll get the opportunity to rebuild your life after a negative & traumatic loop. Heal from what broke you, live in your own space. Reconnect with your discipline and learn to love yourself again. It’s very important that you see that journey through
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yes this is what my fmr dir was flexing he was saying - he was working 16 hours a day and it is not even sth like ib, pe or sth like it was bloody stupid cdns ip business which is worth at max $1b
People will flex 60+ hour work weeks like it’s a badge of honor My bro you’re a slave
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my respect for the primetime tool was already high now, it has gotten even higher ============ it rightfully deserves
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and that's why i love handa!
As much as I love the adulation from strangers on the internet, please don't make such assumptions about me or anyone else based on a few tweets or videos. I am not happier, more content, more sorted, or enjoying life any more or less than any other person you know. You don't know what is going on in someone else's life. The only thing I have, which perhaps you don't, is enough money to meet my needs. It takes care of one specific problem that you might have: disliking your job. That's it. Beyond that, it means nothing.
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Sethupathi Balakrishnan retweeted
Children teach you to see God again through their new little eyes. It is hard to explain how but it is 100% real.
such a precious moment
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Sethupathi Balakrishnan retweeted
“Umarım ölmeden önce yaşarım.”
I hope I live before I die.
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yes, i have experienced this firsthand the code they write and the solutions they come up with - it is truly phenomenal
Because the Chinese actually are technically competent. Indians are not.
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look at that smile fearless!! @neha_aisa
After 12 relentless hours, Neha Bora has been released
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