art. interfaces. design. engineering. motorcycles. books. cameras. mountains. asmara’s dad. nothing to sell. past: Gojek, Leftshift

Dehradun, India
Joined June 2008
If only people spent as much time trying to make what people want as they do trying to make people want things they make.
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nothing is more humbling than being a designer and realizing the ugly version converts better
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Today we're launching @tryAlanAI so developers can stop babysitting their coding agents. We kept running into the same problem ourselves. Even as agents got better at writing code, we were becoming glorified button-pushers for our own AI: starting every run, feeding them context, unblocking failures, and checking their work. We built Alan to change that.
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"smart overachiever discovers fun"
new load-bearing internet comment just dropped
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This post isn’t design… it’s art
I don’t use Figma anymore. For the past six months I’ve been uploading my consciousness directly into the ether and allowing the work to manifest through minor disturbances in the electromagnetic field. You think you are seeing the aurora borealis that's actually my brain waves. It’s a much more intuitive process. I sit completely still in my office until a founder somewhere develops a sudden inspiration for their brand positioning but in reality it was me clipping them in their brain stem, smiling down on them like one of God's children. People keep asking what tools I’m using. I understand the question. I used to think that way too. But asking me what tools I use is like asking a glass of water what software is wetness. Its a meaningless question. I don’t design anymore. I am the pixels. I am the logo. I am the little bit of space between the 'r' and the 'n' that you better make sure is kerned properly. When you increase the font size I experience physical growth. When you cut a vector point, my consciousness goes into quantum superposition. This is where the industry is going. If you're not on board, you're going to get left behind. My entire design system now lives in the collective unconscious. There’s no documentation. Your team will simply wake up knowing the button radius. If someone uses the wrong shade of blue they’ll hear a high pitched ringing sound until they correct it. Developer handoff has been so smooth since I started working this way. My effigy appears at the foot of the engineer’s bed and I open my mouth. The CSS comes out at a frequency only their fillings can receive. We’ve eliminated all meetings. I no longer send clients presentations. I enter their dreams as a white horse with an already complete interactive brand guidelines. They’re free to leave feedback by speaking into a bowl of room temperature water. I receive it immediately and disagree with it on a cellular level. Transcending this outdated material plane is my standing Tuesday meeting. Some people are uncomfortable with this. A procurement manager recently asked whether I could provide an SVG of the logo and I just told her to close her eyes and remember the first time she felt truly understood. She looked annoyed and just said their print vendor needed an SVG by today. A big adjustment has been personal. My wife asked if I could help bring in the groceries. I explained that I now exist simultaneously across every customer touchpoint. I think there’s a lot of fear right now about what happens when designers stop needing tools. But the people who adapt will be fine. You just have to be willing to let go of a few outdated ideas. Like having a body. Being legally distinguishable from a gradient. Anyway I am open for new branding projects this quarter.
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"We didn’t want to kill AI in the class. Quite the opposite. That’s the world as it is. We want students to use AI to the max, just like in the real world. But AI has changed the world in which entrepreneurs will create new companies. The Lean LaunchPad class needed to change more than the MVP" steveblank.com/2026/09/25/ai…
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Setahun lebih kami dikriminalisasi. Ribuan halaman berkas, ratusan jam sidang, puluhan saksi kami eksaminasi. Lelah? Tentu. 15 bulan tanpa pemasukan, tabungan 15 tahun terkuras. Menyerah? Tentu tidak. Sepanjang sidang, kebenaran terungkap dibantu AI yang Ibam bangun sendiri. AI tersebut bantu tim pengacara kami untuk: 👉🏼 Menganalisis keseluruhan perkara sampai ke akar2nya 👉🏼 Menarik benang merah dari ratusan saksi yang diperiksa 👉🏼 Membandingkan belasan ribu kesaksian tertulis antar saksi 👉🏼 Mendengar dan memahami ratusan jam kesaksian lisan mereka di sidang Dari semua analisis yang dilakukan, AI tersebut mengungkap puluhan temuan, kejanggalan, dan kontradiksi dalam kesaksian dan bukti yang ada. Membongkar sebuah perkara sampai sedetail ini biasanya butuh tim paralegal belasan hingga puluhan orang. Jujur, kami tidak sanggup membayar tim sebesar itu. 💸 Namun, dengan dibantu seluruh hasil analisis AI di atas, tim pengacara kami bisa memaksimalkan pembelaan di sidang tanpa perlu bangun tim yang besar. Hasilnya: vonis yang jauh lebih ringan dibanding tuntutan, pengakuan bahwa Ibam tidak menerima keuntungan apa pun, dan dua dari lima hakim berpendapat Ibam seharusnya dibebaskan. Dalam banyak perkara, vonis seperti itu sudah dianggap keberhasilan. Tapi kami tetap mengajukan banding dan kasasi, karena kami percaya putusan yang adil adalah yang membebaskan Ibam. Setelah menjalani proses hukum setahun lebih, kami juga percaya AI yang dirancang dengan baik bisa menghadirkan keadilan yang lebih adil, serta membantu mereka yang menjadi korban kriminalisasi. Karena itu, beberapa bulan terakhir, selagi menjalani tahanan kota, Ibam menyibukkan diri dengan mengembangkan AI-nya lebih lanjut, hingga menjadi sebuah produk yang bisa menangani perkara lain. Produk ini kini sudah punya pengguna berbayar pertama, mendapat komitmen funding dari beberapa angel investor, dan dipimpin oleh seorang teman baik (@ainunnajib) yang berkenan menjadi founder dari startupnya. Ya, saat memulai ikhtiar ini, kami ngga pernah kebayang bahwa AI yang dibangun di tengah segala keterbatasan, tekanan, dan kebebasan yang dipertaruhkan, kini ternyata menjelma menjadi sebuah startup. Izinkan kami memperkenalkan: @PerkaraAI, AI yang dibangun untuk membantu tim pengacara memberikan pembelaan terbaik. Kami sadar, dalam situasi normal saja bangun startup sangat sulit, apalagi di tengah ketidakpastian hasil dari perkara yang sedang kami jalani. Tapi kami ngga punya pilihan lain. Setahun lebih tanpa penghasilan sudah sangat berat, dan sekarang kami sekeluarga juga terancam dimiskinkan karena dikenakan uang pengganti Rp5 miliar. Padahal, putusan hakim sendiri mengakui Ibam ngga menerima keuntungan apa pun. Seluruh harta kamipun, kalau dijual, ngga akan cukup untuk bayar. Menyerah? Sekali lagi, tentu tidak. Apalagi sekarang kami punya misi baru: sebisa mungkin membantu korban kriminalisasi mendapatkan keadilan terbaik melalui AI yang Ibam bangun. Ini cara kami melawan keadaan dan bangkit dari keterpurukan, sekaligus bantu Indonesia jadi lebih baik. ✊🏼 Sejalan dengan misi membantu korban kriminalisasi, kami juga berharap ada LBH yang berkenan memakai AI kami untuk kasus pro bono mereka. Untuk kasus2 tersebut, kami berkomitmen menggratiskan @PerkaraAI. Saat ini jumlah kasus pro bono yang bisa kami bantu masih terbatas, karena startupnya sendiri masih dalam tahap pre-seed fundraising. Tapi seiring bertambahnya pendanaan serta klien berbayar, kami berharap bisa membantu lebih banyak kasus pro bono. Dalam jangka menengah, kami juga berencana merilis sebagian fitur @PerkaraAI sebagai Community Edition yang open source. Versi ini bisa digunakan penyidik untuk memastikan konstruksi perkara sudah mencerminkan kebenaran sejak tahap penyidikan, sehingga tidak berujung pada kriminalisasi. Selain itu, majelis hakim juga bisa menggunakan versi tersebut untuk mempelajari perkara yang mereka tangani secara lebih mendalam dan menyeluruh, di tengah beban kerja yang tinggi. Untuk sekarang, tim pengacara atau firma hukum yang ingin dibantu AI bisa menghubungi kami melalui akun @PerkaraAI atau situs perkara.ai. Idealnya sebelum persidangan klien dimulai, supaya analisis perkaranya bisa disiapkan begitu berkas BAP diterima. Terkait @PerkaraAI sendiri, Ibam merancang AI tersebut dengan sangat hati-hati dan terstruktur. Sebagian fiturnya bisa ditonton pada video di bawah, dan Ibam terus membangun fitur2 baru berdasarkan masukan penggunanya 👇🏼 Mohon doa dan dukungannya. Kami sangat terbantu kalau post ini bisa dibagikan ke siapapun yang mungkin membutuhkan bantuan AI untuk perkaranya. Kami juga sangat terbuka bagi yang bantu warm intro dengan mereka2 yang bisa mendukung misi kami. Akhir kata, kami berharap @PerkaraAI bisa menjadi hikmah dari kriminalisasi yang kami sekeluarga jalani selama setahun lebih, sekaligus membantu meningkatkan kualitas penegakan hukum di Indonesia. 🙏🏼 Tertanda, Ririe, Founding Legal Ibam, Founding Engineer
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Added a new skill: /teardown It creates a technical illustration of any object and lets you customize individual parts, colors and annotations. You can then export the result as an SVG or PNG. npx skills add jakubkrehel/skills
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Sitar music in front of Safdarjung on an October night.
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the sun knows how to make everything beautiful.
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We got live dosa tracking in Bangalore before GTA 6
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The "design engineer" archetype in intelligence era needs be someone much further-reaching on both ends. Beyond DESIGN, a keener social intuition, a rich visual + tonal vernacular, broadly read, a deep understanding of people. They need to be deeply-feeling themselves, and not Maslow's 'existential zombies.' They need an investigative & suspended disbelief, but also a discernment and sanity to prevent psychosis. Far beyond just buttons + sliders. Much closer to a novelist or anthropologist. Beyond ENGINEER, a deep-seated intuition of machine intelligence: how they traverse latent space, what they can / cannot do well. A scientific approach to prodding this 'grown-not-built' intelligence. Far beyond just CRUD apps. Practically: ability to fine-tune + benchmark models, among other skills, to bridge machine intelligence to the more design/humanistic. FWIW: all this is very good for a field — software design — that has recently (and rightfully) become the butt of jokes, and seen as a very unserious discipline
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unbothered >> happy
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Shuffle is overrated. I hired a spider. 🕷🕸️
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Moving design into code fixed a lot of things, but it broke feedback. In Figma, a client leaves a comment on the exact element. On a live prototype, you get a screenshot in Slack with a circle drawn on it. This might just be the fix: xitter.cf/ridd_design/status/211…
introducing @inflight the missing feedback layer for prototypes ⇢ works with any agent ⇢ supports pinned comments + video ⇢ turns feedback into next steps for Claude
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Taste is cultivated with appetite
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surround yourself with people, teams, and orgs who care. you’ll move mountains and do the best work of your life
Caring is the moat, you should feel visceral pain when things are bad or broken and stop at nothing to fix them
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Hi, we're Threadlocked, a small collective of young researchers and hackers scattered across India and APAC. We're sick of watching an entire generation mistake salary packages and credentials for the pursuit of computer science itself. We're looking for curious hackers and researchers who still dare to take the road less traveled by treating computing as a craft. We grew up in obscure corners of the Internet and learnt from strangers who encouraged our curiosity, shared their knowledge and even helped us access resources we couldn't afford. Somewhere along the way, we found our people. Now that we're in a position to do the same for others, we'd like to return the favor. If any of these feel familiar we’d love to hear from you.
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Need to know what the proprietor of Gunturs Restaurant prompted meta ai to end up with this thumbnail
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Election Commission’s software has made a massive blunder. It’s translating Hindi/Urdu names by treating them as if they were English. For example, the name was Muhammad Iqbal Beg, but the software turned it into “Mohammad Iqbal Bheek Mangte Hain”. Another example: A woman’s name was Phool Kali Devi, and the software changed it to “Murkh Kali Devi” . Absolute chaos, what’s going on?
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Nine more lessons from my 3D book about energy, now covering the whole GCSE energy topic: kinetic, gravitational and elastic energy, heating, power, efficiency, energy resources and conservation of energy. Built with Opus 5.5 and Three.js. The full book ↓
Education doesn’t have to be text and flat diagrams. So I’m building a 3D book about energy that students can play with: 10 lessons to predict, test and prove. Built with Opus 5.5 and Three.js. Try Lesson 1, Energy stores: everyday objects and where their energy is kept ↓
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