So cool! AI is sniffing out age old bugs that we were living with!

"Whatever we think life is, that's what life becomes." Tony Robbins, yesterday. We don't see the world as is. We see it through a lens. We label before we look. Good or bad. Friend or threat. Win or loss. My lens: everything is a fight. A minor bug looks like the sky is falling. A family board game looks like a qualifying lap. Same bug. Same game. The lens did that. Jains have a name for the lens: mohanīya karma. Perception-deluding karma. It puts a color on everything you see. Tony says change the color, and life changes. Jains go one step further: take the lens off. I'm still working on a better color.

Can’t wait for the model to drop. Would love to also see a technical writeup or training code (asking for too much now?)!

Starting a company to become rich or famous is indeed super silly. Being an entrepreneur forces you to be the best version of yourself. For example, if I weren't running a business, I would never write on social media.

AI will distinguish quality from jugad. I am happy.

Tesla is dangerous because it oversells. What the fans believe and want us to perceive doesn't change reality. nypost.com/2026/10/16/us-new…

Last night I watched Schumacher 94. As a boy, he only had access to a karting track because his mum worked there in the canteen. He raced on tyres he pulled out of richer kids trash bins and learned to win on bald rubber. And because of this, in the rain, nobody could ever touch him. James Allen sums him up cleanly: They have this rage to compete... Obviously, its extremely difficult, its extremely dangerous, but thats part of the attraction. The more difficult something is, the greater the satisfaction that they get from it. Nobody is born with that rage. I was 7 when my parents left me at a boarding school in Indore. 16 boys to a dormitory. You learn fast that nobody is coming to save you. That chip on my shoulder got me through a PhD in Germany when I couldnt speak a word of the language. It got me in front of Mercedes with a demo. It built a company of 50 from nothing. In your 20s and 30s, that rage to compete is a superpower. In your 40s - if you havent done enough therapy - that exact same fire makes you exhausting to live and work with. Because when you are conditioned to only feel alive in extreme difficulty, you treat everything like a street fight. At work, you hold people to unrelenting standards because good enough feels like a threat to survival. At home, a quiet weekend feels suspicious - if there isnt a problem to solve, your brain quietly invents one just to feel useful. You end up treating a minor bug like the sky is falling, and a family board game with your 8-year-olds like a qualifying lap. Even when you’ve built the company and earned your seat at the table, your nervous system doesnt get the memo. You’re still driving like you’re on bald tyres in the rain. I learned how to win the hard way. I still have no idea how to do the easy way.

Let me be blunt: the German Mittelstand companies that embrace AI will keep their competitive edge and move forward. The ones that don't will fizzle out and die, no matter how good their engineering is. Don't get me wrong, the Mittelstand has serious expertise, and these companies are excellent at what they do. Decision-making is also quick, because you're speaking directly with the owners, in this case a father and son. But succession planning, staying competitive and holding off global players are real pain points, and that's where we're now helping them with AI.

Cute demo, no doubt. But like @ylecun we always ask: Will it work in the real world or is it designed just to create hype?

I think people are underestimating just how much industrial knowledge Germany is sitting on, and how easily it could lose its competitive advantage over the next decade. Germany has spent generations building some of the most sophisticated industrial companies in the world. Many are family-owned Mittelstand businesses, operating in obscure niches, making products that most people have never heard of, but which entire global supply chains depend on. Their competitive advantage was built over decades. It lives in the accumulated experience of their engineers, the intricacies of their manufacturing processes, and an intimate understanding of problems that competitors may not even know exist. And yet, these companies face an increasingly uncomfortable future. Energy is expensive, regulation is burdensome, skilled workers are difficult to find, and competition from China is intensifying. Meanwhile, technological change threatens to erode advantages that took generations to build. I find it troubling how casually we discuss Germany's industrial decline, as though we are talking about abstract economic statistics rather than businesses that families have spent their lives building. But I also believe AI offers these companies an extraordinary opportunity. Consider the sheer quantity of knowledge accumulated inside a fifty-year-old manufacturing business. Engineering drawings, maintenance records, production data, and decades of experience troubleshooting problems on the factory floor. Much of this knowledge remains fragmented, difficult to access, and dependent on a handful of experienced engineers. Imagine making that accumulated expertise accessible across the organization, allowing engineers to understand complex dependencies and make better decisions in a fraction of the time. This is precisely the kind of problem we're working on at @FastCodeAI. Germany's greatest industrial strength is its accumulated engineering knowledge. Air-gapped secure customized AI offers an opportunity to make that knowledge considerably more valuable. And I believe preserving this advantage should be a national priority.

Young folks who want to succeed, work life balance is a myth. Life Jeff Bezos calls it, it can be work life harmony. Example, check the requirements from Khosla’s job post: •Work in person in Menlo Park every day, generally from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. •Maintain around-the-clock availability, including nights and weekends when needed. •Commit to three years. •Live near Menlo Park or relocate there. Relocation support and visa sponsorship are available.