Jawwad Farid

A drop in the bucket. But it is my drop. Declined first engagement linked to a grant funded by @FCDOGovUK and @sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. Have already removed @KfW_FZ_int and @USAID from our list of approved partners and financiers.

@microMAF Sir ghee, shakar, aur buhat sarai duwain

Hearing lots of good buzz. If Netanyahu or Obama send out a bitchy tweet now, send congratulations to all!

Pakistan welcomes all delegates including journalists from participating nations, traveling in relation to Islamabad Talks 2026. To this end, all airlines are requested to permit boarding to all such individuals without Visa. Immigration authorities in Pakistan will issue them Visa on Arrival.

@KhurramHusain @ZarrarKhuhro Ameen

I just want a just peace to emerge, Iran to come in out of the cold and link up w/ Turkey and Pakistan to allow visa free travel and build rail connect from Lhe/Khi to Tehran/Isfahan to Ankara/Istanbul & citizens of these countries to greet each other warmly wherever they meet.

@peterfrankopan Thank you Peter. You should one day make the trek on the old silk road trails off Gilgit, Hunza, Skardu and Khaplu. If you haven't already. For more color on part III of your series.

Apart from the fact that we seem to have been saved from madness and disaster, it’s a big hats off this evening to #Pakistan.

They really did open strait of hormuz before university road

As always, the real game we are great at has always been memes.

Pakistan. Official motto for 2026. "We are in the news again." All praise to the Almighty, the most Gracious , the most Beneficent, the most Merciful, the Rab of all worlds. Alhamdulilah.

Pakistan at the rest of the world:

Diplomacy is about results, not optics. Real power is silent and effective, not loud and performative. ​Being a 'Vishwaguru' requires more than a narrative—it requires moving the needle in global crises. Pakistan just gave a masterclass in diplomacy by securing a ceasefire when it mattered most. Action over rhetoric, every single time. 🌍🤝 ​Huge congratulations to the people of Pakistan! 🇵🇰 @Razarumi #Pakistan #Diplomacy #GlobalPeace

Extremely proud today to be a member of Pakistan’s Foreign Service. Our diplomatic skills and negotiation abilities were exhibited 55 years ago when Pakistan brought US and China to the same table, and again today. 🇵🇰💚

@Trinhnomics Absolutely the best news for all of us, not just in Asia.

Good morning, I woke up to the best news ever - we got a two-week ceasefire that has lit Asian and risks assets that have been languishing on the closure of the Strait. The Korean won is rallying the hardest, followed by THB and the AUD. For Vietnam, it got another good news - it has been upgraded to emerging market status from frontier in September that will bring about USD6bn passive flows.

With the greatest humility, I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. I warmly welcome the sagacious gesture and extend deepest gratitude to the leadership of both the countries and invite their delegations to Islamabad on Friday, 10th April 2026, to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes. Both parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding and have remained constructively engaged in furthering the cause of peace and stability. We earnestly hope, that the ‘Islamabad Talks’ succeed in achieving sustainable peace and wish to share more good news in coming days! @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @SecRubio @SteveWitkoff @SEPeaceMissions @drpezeshkian @mb_ghalibaf @araghchi

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@staysaasy And you are not even an engineer. Just a manager in recovery.

I didn’t do nuffin

@AliaChughtai Supposedly there is a second round planned around 7 pm. Don't get caught in the rush hour on Sh. Faisal.

@pirroh @garrytan @tbpn Man this was deep. You had me for a long minute. Well played sire, well played.

Garry is joining Replit as our most Distinguished Engineer. Together, we will bring gstack to the next billion software creators. 100k lines of code a day will be the new normal.

@AliaChughtai You mean this?

I just filed my taxes with OpenClaw. Here's how it went. I sold my 90% stake in a business last year for $1.8M cash (installment sale: half in 2025, half in 2026). I also had a single-member LLC, brokerage income from dividends and stocks, HSA distributions, ACA marketplace insurance, 3 real estate properties, prior estimated tax payments, foreign income tax credits, and three kids. Not a simple return. I usually pay a CPA. Last year it cost me $8,000 for personal and business returns, and every question took weeks to get answered (so I didn't ask much). This year I decided to see how far I could get with OpenClaw instead. Here's what actually happened: Phase 1: Research (Monday) I had a pile of documents: the purchase agreement, all LLC operating agreement amendments, old K-1s, prior tax returns going back to 2012, bank statements, balance sheets. I fed everything to OpenClaw and said "read everything in chronological order and figure out my 2025 tax situation." It reconstructed the full entity history: my LLC started in 2019, converted to an S-corp in 2020, became a multi-member LLC (partnership) in 2023, then I sold a small share to an acquirer in 2024, and eventually sold my remaining 90% last year. Having all the prior returns was huge. OpenClaw traced my cost basis through every transition: original capital contributions, income allocations, distributions, entity conversions. It cross-referenced numbers across years, verified how my previous CPA had handled things, and flagged details I never fully understood, like why my ending capital account was negative and what my recourse liabilities represented. It even caught an error. My previous accountant flipped the month with the day for when I sold a small share of my business (5/4 instead of 4/5) which meant I got attributed some income for one month that should have gone to another partner. Didn’t change tax due much, but OpenClaw FTW! By the end of the day, it had prepared a comprehensive summary.md document with all the numbers, forms needed, and open questions. Phase 2: Actually filing (Tuesday) OpenClaw researched TurboTax's current plans and saved me $500 by unburying the $129 TurboTax DIY plan I actually needed. Intuit was trying to sell me a $639 package via a recommendation quiz that said there's no other option for my situation. There was! This was a 4+ hour session where I went screen by screen through TurboTax with OpenClaw guiding every field: - Brokerage 1099: Imported automatically. OpenClaw verified the numbers matched my records. - Schedule C (my solo LLC): I had no bookkeeping done for this, so OpenClaw analyzed all bank transactions and prepared the P&L. I only had to recategorize one transaction because it was a reimbursement for something I had paid for personally. - K-1 partnership income: No actual K-1 yet (the acquirer hasn't filed the entity return), so we estimated my share of the partnership based on bank statements and revenue data. - The installment sale: This was the hardest part. TurboTax kept double counting the gain, reporting it through both the K-1 disposition AND Form 6252. We had to zero out the K-1 sale fields and let the installment sale section handle all the gain reporting. Took several attempts to get right. - Itemized deductions: Mortgage interest, property taxes, local sales taxes, and so on. Uneventful, and OpenClaw correctly predicted the SALT cap limits I'd run into it. TurboTax confirmed those calculations. - Annualized income method: Since the $900K installment came in Q2, using the annualized method on Form 2210 saved ~$3,700 in underpayment penalties. This was quite tedious, and I'm not sure an accountant would have done this for me. I've been told "just pay the penalty" before. - HSA: ~$12K distribution, all qualified medical expenses, $0 taxable. - ACA Premium Tax Credit: 1095-A entered month by month for 11 months of marketplace coverage. I quit the ACA plan in November, in favor of CrowdHealth. No deductions from them unfortunately. At the end, OpenClaw reviewed the final 137 page tax return draft return line by line. Total federal due: $125K, excluding the ~$40K in estimated taxes already paid throughout 2025. — Have you said thank you once, Donald?! What worked well: 1. Document analysis. I threw PDFs and CSVs at it: purchase agreements, K-1s, old returns going back years, bank statements, and it extracted exactly what was needed. Being able to say "look at my 2022 return and tell me what basis my CPA used" and get an answer in seconds was invaluable. Way faster than explaining things to a human. 2. Answering questions in real time. Instead of emailing a CPA and waiting days, I asked "what are recourse vs nonrecourse liabilities?" and got a clear answer in 5 seconds while staring at the TurboTax field. This back-and-forth is what made the whole thing work. Every question I had, answered immediately. 3. Catching optimizations. The annualized income method, investment interest expense from brokerage margin, etc. Small things that add up. 4. Cross-referencing prior years. Having OpenClaw dig through my old returns to verify how things were previously handled gave me real confidence. I could see that the numbers were consistent with what my CPA had done before. What didn't work well: 1. Driving TurboTax directly. I had OpenClaw try to fill in the forms via browser automation. Too slow! TurboTax's multi-step wizards with radio buttons and dynamic forms don't lend themselves well to AI control yet. We switched to me clicking while it dictated what to enter. I'm optimistic this will be improved soon. 2. TurboTax's installment sale handling. This was genuinely tricky. The double counting issue required a creative workaround. A CPA familiar with TurboTax would know the right workflow. OpenClaw had to experiment. 3. No K-1 yet. We estimated the partnership income. When the real K-1 arrives, I'll probably need to amend. This is the same problem I'd have with a CPA though. But if the K-1 preparer was using OpenClaw, maybe I would already have it! What to watch out for: - You need to know your own situation. I'm not completely ignorant about tax prep. I had a reasonable expectation of what the numbers should look like, roughly how much I owed, what the major items were, and so on. I wasn't relying on blind faith. The ability to ask questions and verify things quickly is what built confidence. - Complex form interactions are tricky. The TurboTax installment sale / K-1 double-counting issue could have resulted in extra taxable income if we didn't catch it. Having a sense of what the final number should be matters. - You still need to understand your own finances. The bottom line: Total cost: $129 (TurboTax Premium) vs $8,000 I paid my CPA last year. Also $23.90 in OpenAI GPT 5.4 tokens, including drafting of this post :) Time spent: ~6 hours total across research, prep, and filing. Still faster than dealing with a CPA, and I got much better answers. The biggest difference wasn't the money. It was the speed of answers. Every question I had during filing got answered in seconds. That real-time loop of "what does this field mean?" → clear explanation → enter the number → move on is something no CPA engagement can match. Next year, I'll know the drill. And OpenClaw has memory. That one should be much simpler. Long live the claw! 🦞