curious engineer @devrev, building https://xitter.cf/t.co/yvhZLmJYP2, optimizing stuff and life decisions

Bengaluru, India
Joined June 2019
this is how you vibe code.
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I getting a feeling that OpenAI and Anthropic soon will ditch customers completely, just use their models 100% internally and go all in on frontier science and engineering research Like eg if they actually solve quantum gravity or cure cancer, and own the right to license the solution, can you imagine the ROI behind that? No more listening to users bitching about usage or model nerf or whatever
Dr. Christopher Stubbs is joining our Long-Term Benefit Trust. Chris is an experimental physicist and a former Dean of Science at Harvard University. He has also advised the US government on national security and arms control. Read more: anthropic.com/news/christoph…
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every major company is arriving at roughly the same offering: persistent memory, email/calendar/messages, browser + computer use, background tasks, proactive notifications, voice, app/tool execution, ambient context, & some notion of a personal agent sitting above everything. remarkable levels of convergence with very little differentiation whatsoever.
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we need helium 3
Helium shortage is nonsense. Electrolyze seawater for hydrogen, then run it through a reactor to fuse it into helium. We’ve known how to do this since the 1950s. This is a solved problem.
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Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model. On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested: -> 51-125x faster - > 150-210x cheaper -> Higher IOU than all frontier models SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it. 18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch). The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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"I believe the world is about to witness a tidal wave of technological innovation emerging from India." The world has a very outdated view of what India is, and I think many people are going to be utterly shocked when this wave that you're describing @anandmahindra finally reaches them. "This robot was made in India? Even the actuators?!" "This specialty chemical was discovered and manufactured by an Indian company? And they've got a patent for it too?!" "The electric vehicle I love driving so much was built indigenously in India? Along with the battery cells?!" So much has changed in just ~5 years. It's mind-boggling even for someone like me who has called India home for nine years and has been laser-focused on startups. Young people are entering adulthood with no self-imposed mental limitations. No ceilings. They believe they can do anything, build anything, be anything. I believe they can too.
The Indian startup ecosystem is on steroids. And what excites me most is that this isn’t just about software. It’s about deeptech. Manufacturing technology. Hardcore hardware. Cutting-edge chemical processes. A new generation of Indian entrepreneurs is building the capabilities that could allow us to leapfrog entire stages of technological development. These videos, courtesy @ashleevance & @RuntimeBRT, offer just a glimpse of what’s being cooked up in labs, workshops & factories across India. And right on cue, Rajan Anandan, former head of Google India, & Saurabh Srivastava, one of India’s pioneering entrepreneurs & institution builders, have released a book calling India a ‘Lift-Off Nation.’ An apt description. Because I believe the world is about to witness a tidal wave of technological innovation emerging from India. And it’s being powered by young entrepreneurs who are daring to build things we once assumed could only be built elsewhere. My salute to them. #MondayMotivation
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as my mum say: isske muh m dahi shakar
5 years from now , you will receive $3050 checks every week from below parties — $500 check from NVDA $1000 from OpenAI $800 from Claude $150 from micron $600 from government That’s well over $12000 a month. Work will be optional.
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nikhil retweeted
Well said, Professor John Mearsheimer. "Indians do not need the west to tell them what their interests are."
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hard disagree. there's a system in place whose sole purpose is to address these issues. as citizens, yes, it's our responsibility to raise our voices, contact whoever we can, and push for things to get fixed. but to what extent? we all have jobs, responsibilities, and lives of our own. we can't just put everything aside to do the work of people who are literally responsible for handling these problems. it's the job of higher authorities to identify these issues and ensure they're resolved. and idk if you realise this, but the only reason they're fixing it now is because a foreigner with public visibility has started raising questions. they know addressing it will earn them some good PR. but why does something as basic as this even need to go viral to get fixed? there are official grievance portals, there are social media platforms, and people have been lodging complaints day after day, only to get absolutely nothing in return. if a system only starts functioning when there's public outrage or an opportunity for good PR, then what's even the point of having that system in the first place? makes me wonder who's the real parasite here.
I think what is actually needed is for Indian people to actually give a damn about their cities and fellow citizens. Anybody using the "I pay taxes, I shouldn't have to do anything" excuse should go live in another country. India isn't developed, it's developing, so it needs patriots, not parasites. If this triggers you, it means you're part of the problem. If you're not happy with the footpath (or a pothole, or anything else which is broken), fix it, or call someone to fix it, and don't give up until it's fixed. Be relentless. Be vocal. Be creative. Make it your mission to get that one thing fixed. Look at what Virendra (@Virendra0698) did by just calling the right people and being respectful (but also persistent). He and Arun Pai (@arunpaiblrwalks) along with the help of GBA and some wonderful volunteers turned an unofficial garbage dump into a pristine, beautiful footpath through sheer force of will. xitter.cf/Virendra0698/status/21…
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Destroying civilisation without a war. France is the recent example and India can be next
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It’s still not over for India. We’re still burning through our forex reserves, and unemployment could spike in the age of AI and automation. There are leaders in India who want a regime change and could push for it if things get worse. I just hope they put India first.
Paris burns. Delhi holds. Here's why. Yesterday 550,000 people marched across France. 110,000 in Paris. By nightfall .. tear gas at Republique, fires, shops looted bare, 195 detained in the capital alone. It started as a school protest in late September. Within weeks France had arrested over 6,500 people, mostly minors. A student lost his hand to a police grenade. Then unions, Yellow Vests, farmers and taxi drivers piled in. A complaint about classrooms became a revolt against the state. The government's answer .. A TV address and a promise of a plan by end October. That's what a broke state sounds like. Debt at 119% of GDP. Deficit at 5.4%. Borrowing costs above Italy and Greece. France can't buy peace, and it can't hold the line either. So it gets neither. India faced its own test this year. The Cockroach Janta Party began in May as an Instagram joke. Satire about lazy, unemployed youth. 15 million followers in a week. Fun, until it wasn't. When students had a real problem with the NEET leak, the government dealt with it. The exam was held again. Education Minister resigned, Issue closed. But the CJP didn't close. It needed a new enemy. So it picked the Election Commission. By October, the youth movement was demanding the Chief Election Commissioner's head over a voter roll clean up. The EC's position is simple: the names removed were duplicates, dead voters and fraudulent entries. Every serious democracy cleans its rolls. Read the CJP manifesto and the mask slips. Cancel broadcast licences of media houses it dislikes. Investigate journalists' bank accounts. Arrest the CEC under anti terror law. That's not a student charter. That's a political wish list. And sure enough, the opposition climbed aboard. As the Defence Minister put it, young people are being used as pawns in someone else's power grab. How the state responded. No tear gas at India Gate. No grenades. No burning streets.Designated protest sites. Barricades. Preventive detention for leaders who announced they'd defy the rules. Five days in jail for those who forced their way into a banned site. Then back to normal. Firm. Proportionate. Boring. Exactly what you want. Compare the footage. Paris.. looting, fire, a teenager's hand gone. Delhi: protesters loaded onto buses. The economics behind the calm. Stability isn't luck. It's paid for. When the Hormuz shock pushed crude past $110, India cut excise ₹10 a litre and kept pump prices almost flat. France let diesel run to €2.35. Our fiscal deficit is on a glide path to 4.3%. Central debt is falling toward 50% of GDP. A state with money in the bank can fix a real grievance quickly. That leaves agitators with only manufactured ones. A state that's broke has to say no to everything, and every no becomes a riot. So what were we saved from.. The French spiral. A government too broke to fix things and too weak to keep order, watching kids and unions burn its capital. India fixed what was broken, held firm on what was political, and kept the lights on. Paris should take notes.
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Paris burns. Delhi holds. Here's why. Yesterday 550,000 people marched across France. 110,000 in Paris. By nightfall .. tear gas at Republique, fires, shops looted bare, 195 detained in the capital alone. It started as a school protest in late September. Within weeks France had arrested over 6,500 people, mostly minors. A student lost his hand to a police grenade. Then unions, Yellow Vests, farmers and taxi drivers piled in. A complaint about classrooms became a revolt against the state. The government's answer .. A TV address and a promise of a plan by end October. That's what a broke state sounds like. Debt at 119% of GDP. Deficit at 5.4%. Borrowing costs above Italy and Greece. France can't buy peace, and it can't hold the line either. So it gets neither. India faced its own test this year. The Cockroach Janta Party began in May as an Instagram joke. Satire about lazy, unemployed youth. 15 million followers in a week. Fun, until it wasn't. When students had a real problem with the NEET leak, the government dealt with it. The exam was held again. Education Minister resigned, Issue closed. But the CJP didn't close. It needed a new enemy. So it picked the Election Commission. By October, the youth movement was demanding the Chief Election Commissioner's head over a voter roll clean up. The EC's position is simple: the names removed were duplicates, dead voters and fraudulent entries. Every serious democracy cleans its rolls. Read the CJP manifesto and the mask slips. Cancel broadcast licences of media houses it dislikes. Investigate journalists' bank accounts. Arrest the CEC under anti terror law. That's not a student charter. That's a political wish list. And sure enough, the opposition climbed aboard. As the Defence Minister put it, young people are being used as pawns in someone else's power grab. How the state responded. No tear gas at India Gate. No grenades. No burning streets.Designated protest sites. Barricades. Preventive detention for leaders who announced they'd defy the rules. Five days in jail for those who forced their way into a banned site. Then back to normal. Firm. Proportionate. Boring. Exactly what you want. Compare the footage. Paris.. looting, fire, a teenager's hand gone. Delhi: protesters loaded onto buses. The economics behind the calm. Stability isn't luck. It's paid for. When the Hormuz shock pushed crude past $110, India cut excise ₹10 a litre and kept pump prices almost flat. France let diesel run to €2.35. Our fiscal deficit is on a glide path to 4.3%. Central debt is falling toward 50% of GDP. A state with money in the bank can fix a real grievance quickly. That leaves agitators with only manufactured ones. A state that's broke has to say no to everything, and every no becomes a riot. So what were we saved from.. The French spiral. A government too broke to fix things and too weak to keep order, watching kids and unions burn its capital. India fixed what was broken, held firm on what was political, and kept the lights on. Paris should take notes.
A piece of France’s history, gone in seconds—The 143-year-old bell tower of Limoges Town Hall collapses in flames amid protest violence. Built in 1883. Survived nearly a century and a half. Gone.
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India was better without these cockroaches. We were happy making memes on Nitin Gadkari and Nirmala Sitharaman. We were raising voice for real issues like E20, Tax and Women's Safety. Since this Abhijeet Dipke and his Joker squad all we are seeing is no one knows what is happening, Not even Abhijeet Dipke.
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Do we want to live in a great nation or do we want to make the nation we live in great? There is no correct answer and the answer determines what you do with life.
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A large part of country was no go zone due to Naxals, Kashmiri separatists, bahubalis, tribal militias of Northeast. In Kashmir, they openly mocked & cursed India in tourists’ face & you were helpless. A sizeable section, especially Kashmiri students in all Indian universities used to cheer for Pakistan, just to mess with Indian students. If you object, you could be branded as intolerant gunda.
How was congress rule before BJP came in power in 2014? Asking as a gen z
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I’ve been saying this for long time, FM is doing a shit job.
Why are foreign investors pulling billions out of the Indian stock market even as India’s economy continues to grow? In October 2026, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) have withdrawn over ₹40,000 crore from Indian equities in just a handful of trading sessions, intensifying a sell-off that began months earlier.
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Why are foreign investors pulling billions out of the Indian stock market even as India’s economy continues to grow? In October 2026, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) have withdrawn over ₹40,000 crore from Indian equities in just a handful of trading sessions, intensifying a sell-off that began months earlier.
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Many of their policies point towards long-term growth in India. Personally, I’d prefer to see them continue for another 5 years so these projects can deliver results, mainly in tech. I have no problem with a regime change, as long as the next government shares the same long-term vision for growth. But judging by their current narrative, n leadership that seems unlikely.
I do appreciate them, but I really hate some aspects of the current government as well. I still think they are the better fit out of all options. If a better option does not come, then they are the best, but they do have fallacies, and they do fuck up in several locations.
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kinda true.
AI is literally a scam, the most sophisticated scam ever. They created a machine that mimics the output of intelligence. Then told everyone it was really intelligent — an impossibility, but the illusion was convincing. Based on that deception, they fleeced investors of trillions.
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couldn’t agree more
India doesn’t just need a regime change. It needs a system change. The current system is designed to reward corruption, protect the powerful, and punish honesty. Changing the faces at the top without changing the system will only change who benefits from it.
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