Ashwin Ramasamy

Are we the last generation of truly talented brain workers? Today’s top engineer becomes 10x better with AI but tomorrow’s top engineer is just AI. The pipe is broken. Meanwhile the real plumber will keep fixing pipes.

Turns out PhDs are not going to be in data centres but MacBooks and personal GPUs. Take off is surreal.

The smartest developer feels robbed because there is no struggle/meaning in making writing code. For the ideas guy, it feels like he has super powers now because the struggle was to realize the vision and now he can.

It took humans several epochs to evolve and 1000s of years to migrate. The new species is evolving every week and it’s living in every phone before even the current US presidential term is over.

@THArrowOfApollo Code. Struggling with automating clay access.

We were Clay's largest user at one point in time, hitting their platform 17.3 million times per week. Last month we replaced them entirely with a $200/mo Claude Code subscription. I can't write code. Neither can James, my VP of Growth who built the replacement. Here's the full story. Clay is a GREAT product and I TRULY think most people should use it. But we hit their ceiling. 50,000 row limit per table. 12.5 million row cap per workspace. Tables that take days to actually delete. Clicking "run all" thousands of times and waiting days for things to clear out. So When you're processing millions of leads, all the above become the bottleneck of your entire business. James had never touched Claude Code before. Three weeks after learning it, he built our entire core system. With Clay, processing 1 million leads took 27 hours. And it would error out often enough that we would always have to plan on hitting the “run all rows” button again on 20+ clay tables. IYKYK but Our new system waterfall enriches 1 million leads in 5 seconds. 272,000 leads PER SECOND. AND On top of the core engine, we vibe coded a Google Maps scraper that pulls leads zip code by zip code across all 32,000 US zip codes. AND An AI lead finder that hits 95% contact match rates where Apollo gives you about 30%. AND Ad library scrapers for Google and LinkedIn. AND An AI campaign analysis system. AND An auto-refill system so clients never run out of leads mid-campaign. One we started building with Claude, we just couldn’t stop Now we have the data ready for clients sending 5 million emails a month within 1 week of signing the contract. I put together the full system blueprint -- every tool, the tech stack, a Clay vs custom comparison, and a 6-step playbook for building your own. Plus a video walkthrough where I show you the live system and how each tool actually works. Retweet or Reply CODE below and I'll DM it to you.

If user interfaces don’t matter and we are going to chat, voice, and CLI, can we please bring back a Blackberry-like keyboard?

I think there is a huge market for nearly free but wonky (unpolished, clunkily-scripted or not enterprise-grade but feature rich) software.

@sanketnadhani @kabandisaikia Hey Sanket; we have fully automated research to outbound, CRM and event leads scanning. Would love to learn and share

Ok setting this up. Planning to keep the group small to about 50 people so everyone can have real conversations. And also keeping it only to people who actually work on GTM/distribution. If you'd like in, please DM me with your GTM background or some recent GTM engineering you did.

@theryanjamesmil @AustinLinney Ryan, we built a full-fledged CRM that you never have to log into (email and slack bots do the job for your team). No SaaS. Custom. One time fee plus we maintain. Happy to demo

@AustinLinney Send me more info. I have some clients who may be interested.

Frustrated with ServiceTitan? Overpaying for 47 features you don’t use? So we rebuilt the service titan platform built customized for your company If you want your own custom ServiceTitan-style platform built for your company shoot me DM My business partner built it

@narayananh Done

@Ashwinizer On the move till 19th. After that.

Me, while the whole of Madras is in queue at Gomathi for watery chutney and even more watery sambar.

@narayananh Always ready

@Ashwinizer Yesterday it was fantastic. Let’s do one dosa hopping thingy soon.

@narayananh Sangeetha dosai (anywhere) is the worst. Sorry. They ferment poorly. Always have a bitter after taste. So then my personal list is Bharathi and NA/Shree Bhavan tying for second spot.

@Ashwinizer For me, dosai means Sangeetha RA Puram only. Feeling little sad about Kalathi, but it is kinda true I guess.

@narayananh Where do I get good dosai. Nithyamritham is ok. Kalathi corner is too unhygienic.

@narayananh Went last two weeks. Their dosai is so much better than most. What went wrong?

The specific kind of stress you feel when you want to vibe code over the weekend but you can’t because you did a lot of it over the week as well and you need to get a life.

Outcome-based pricing was concocted by people who have never built, or sold things. The only outcome model that works is a share of terminal value that comes from shared equity. A customer has no incentive to disclose the value your tool generated for them.

Case for custom software: Rent-seeking systems of records that would toll-gate agent access. Happened in healthcare. Will happen elsewhere.

Steam engine companies did not win as much as railroads, apparel, and steel companies. Abundant steam commoditized mechanical work. Abundant software commoditized digital work.

The “SaaS is dead” argument has two parts - features and assurance/governance. Feature SaaS is dead. Governance will be premium. But who owns it? moative.beehiiv.com/p/nobel-laurea…