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@Simon_Ingari Ive done this more than once.

Last week an employee shocked coworkers when he took leave just to complete pending office work peacefully He avoided meetings and constant interruptions, and chose a day off to focus and finish tasks without distractions. He didn’t take leave to rest. He took leave to work. That tells you everything about the workplace.

@iammoviebuff007 No Jayalalitha has done it. Atleast the one I can recollect immediately.

Is this a First time a candidate is contesting in two constituencies..❓

@cricketaakash I honestly feel sarfaraz and urvil should not sit out. MS and Brevis injury opens the door for them. Sarfaraz is good against spin. If they play up,sk,sb 4 5 6 it'll be a good experiment before Brevis returns.

CSK’s luck is quite rotten with Injuries even before the first ball is bowled… If Brevis is unavailable for the first few games, I feel they should make a pivot with their opening plans. Start with Sanju-Ayush and have Rutu at 3. Sarfraz should be in the conversation now too #IPL

@THUSHI_FLY Valalama avaru mahabalipuram beach ku Miami la thana set poduvaru. Unbelievable 😃

Me after knowing Columbus song was shot in mahabalipuram and not U.S.A..

@Kolaarism Epdi pathalum 6 match varude. Inum 2 match dana 😁

ஒருத்தன் முதல் 3 மேட்ச் ஆட மாட்டான் இன்னொருத்தன் மொத்தத்துலயே 3 மேட்ச் தான் ஆடுவான். இவனுங்கள வச்சிட்டு தான் கோதாவுல எறங்க போறோம் ப்ரெண்ட்சு

@prasannalara Ila enaku ena purilana, roar event ku koopda matangalam, vlog ku koopda matangalam ana inside info leak pana matum ash number ah speed dial la vechurupangala 🤷‍♂️

Wish brains are sold in super market but unfortunately not the case.

I agree to the email part. I drafted a plan gave it to AI then it added something I did want to or meant to say. I modified it then finally sent my own version. But the ideal thing to keep everyone happy is mix my version and appropriate parts from AI. It's like composing 2 emails.

My company rolled out AI tools 11 months ago. Since then, every task I do takes longer. I am not allowed to say this out loud. Not because there is a policy. There is no policy. There is something worse than a policy. There is enthusiasm. There is a Slack channel called #ai-wins where people post screenshots of AI outputs with captions like "this just saved me an hour." There is a VP who opens every all-hands with "the companies that adopt fastest win." There is a Director who renamed his team from Operations to Intelligent Operations. There is a peer review question that now asks: "How have you leveraged AI tools to enhance your workflow this quarter?" If the answer is "I haven't, because I was faster before," that is a career decision. So I leverage. Emails. Before the tools, I wrote emails. This took the amount of time it takes to write an email. I did not measure it. Nobody measured it. The email got written and sent and it was fine. Now I write the email. Then I highlight the text and click "Enhance with AI." The AI rewrites my email. It replaces "Can we meet Thursday?" with "I'd love to explore the possibility of finding a mutually convenient time to align on this." I read the rewrite. I delete the rewrite. I send my original email. This takes 4 minutes instead of 2. The 2 extra minutes are the enhancement. I do this 11 times a day. That is 22 minutes I spend each day rejecting improvements to sentences that were already finished. In #ai-wins I posted a screenshot of the rewrite. I did not post the part where I deleted it. 23 people reacted with the rocket emoji. That is adoption. Meetings. We have an AI notetaker in every meeting now. It joins automatically. It records. It transcribes. It summarizes. After each meeting I receive a 3-paragraph summary of the meeting I just attended. I read the summary. This takes 3 minutes. I was in the meeting. I know what happened. I am reading a machine's account of something I experienced firsthand. Sometimes the account is wrong. Last Tuesday it attributed a comment about Q3 revenue to me. My manager made that comment. I spent 4 minutes correcting the transcript. Before the notetaker, I did not spend 7 minutes after each meeting correcting a robot's memory of something I personally witnessed. I attend 11 meetings a week. That is 77 minutes per week supervising a transcription nobody requested. I mentioned this once. My manager said "think about the people who weren't in the meeting." The people who weren't in the meeting do not read the summaries. I checked. The read receipts show single-digit opens. The summaries exist not because they are useful but because they are there. I read them for the same reason. Documents. I write a weekly status update. Before the tools, this took 10 minutes. I typed what happened. I sent it. My manager skimmed it. The system worked. Now I open the AI writing assistant. I give it my bullet points. It produces a draft. The draft says "Significant progress was achieved across multiple workstreams." I did not achieve significant progress across multiple workstreams. I updated a spreadsheet and sent 4 emails. I rewrite the draft to say what actually happened. Then I run my rewrite through the grammar tool. It suggests I change "done" to "completed" and "next week" to "in the forthcoming period." I click Ignore 9 times. Then I send the version I would have written in 10 minutes. The process now takes 30. I have been doing this every week for 11 months. I have added 20 minutes to a task that did not need 20 more minutes. I call this efficiency. I have been calling it efficiency for 11 months. That is what efficiency means now. It means the additional time you spend to arrive at the same outcome through a longer process. Nobody has questioned this definition. I have not offered it for review. I kept a log once. 2 weeks. Every task, timed. Before-AI and after-AI. The after number was larger in every case. Every single one. Not by a little. The range was 40 to 200 percent. I deleted the log. I deleted it because it was a document that said, in plain numbers, that the AI tools make me slower. And a document like that has no place in a company where AI adoption is a strategic priority. I could not send it to my manager. He championed the rollout. I could not post it in #ai-wins. I could not raise it in a meeting because the notetaker would transcribe it and the summary would read "[Name] expressed concerns about AI tool efficacy" and that summary would be the first one anyone actually reads. So I do what everyone does. I use the tools. I spend the extra time. I post in #ai-wins. I write "leveraged AI to streamline weekly reporting" in my review and my manager gives me a 4 out of 5 for innovation. I have innovated nothing. I have added steps to processes that were already finished. I have made simple things longer and labeled the difference with words that used to mean something. Every week in #ai-wins someone posts a screenshot. And 20 people react with the rocket emoji. And nobody posts the part where they deleted the output and did the task themselves. Nobody posts the revert. Nobody posts the before-and-after timer. Nobody will. Because "I was better at my job before the AI tools" is a sentence that cannot be said out loud in any company that has decided AI is the future. Every company has decided AI is the future. So we leverage. Quietly. Adding steps. Calling them optimization. Getting slightly less done, slightly more slowly, with slightly more steps, and reporting it as progress. My yearly review is next month. There is a new section this year. "AI Impact Assessment." It asks me to quantify the hours saved by AI tools per week. I will write a number. The number will be positive. It will not be true. But the AI writing assistant will help me phrase it convincingly. That is the one thing it does well.

@ivanburazin I think the problem with video AI was high cost and difficult to control outcome. I purchased premium version of a leading tool not long ago for creating marketing videos. It couldn't even get the text I wanted. Other limitation was the duration.

OpenAI shutting down Sora is the most predictable outcome of misunderstanding consumer behavior. Everyone grossly overestimates how creative people want to be. 99% of humans simply want to scroll and zone out instead of spending energy conceptualizing, editing, and creating videos. No matter how much the barrier to creation is lowered by a single prompt. It still takes effort and a fair amount of creative thinking. Even Instagram has 2 billion users. But hardly ~10 million (or 0.5%) would be serious creators. So any AI consumer app betting on "with [new_app], everyone becomes a creator!" is being delusional and will go down the same way. After all the word "consumer" exists for a reason. They consume. They don't produce (or even want to lol)

@crikipidea Pinaddi seat la admin ayum kv yayum ukara vechurukalam

Ash x PDogg. Back after a break. For the IPL.

@Shanu_3010 There is a saying , its an age where even if you eat stone it gets digested. He can pump iron once he becomes an adult.

Jitesh Sharma said:🚨🎙️“Vaibhav is not professional. I can tell you that. Everyone is trying to get him to be professional, but I don't think he ever will be, at least not off the field. On the field, maybe. I'm trying my best. I ask him not to have ice cream at night, but he never listens.”

@Tejashyyyyy The auction is a clever way to procure the most important commodity of the game for peanuts. Without it stars will go for the whole auction purse. Idk if its fair or not but that's the idea.

🚨 Shocking statement from Robin Uthappa about IPL auction: We should stop the auction system in cricket. I understand its importance when it first started, you wanted it to grab attention and become a big hit. But in today’s date, you don’t want to sell humans like commodities or have them go under the hammer. If you look at American sports like the NFL and NBA, they have a draft system, which makes things more interesting. Yet we are still sticking to the auction because it’s entertaining. However, there is a limit to entertainment, and it feels like we’re crossing that line. We need to bring that respect back into our society and communities. There is a semblance of respect and we don't sell them as commodities on national television.

This is how it works 1. Content design team redesigns the button, present the mockup get approval from business ( design + meeting when everyone is available) = 3 to 4 hours turn around time 2. Give it to dev, create ticket. 3. Junior dev asks which file to change and sets up meeting with senior dev. 4. Creates build 5. Qa deploys 6. In between SM frantically checks so many times when it will be ready 7. If there are no deployment issues and no further issues are introduced by upstream to reach the point where the button is , test and close it another 1 or 2 hours 8. Create pr with that extensive checklist, hope no other teams junit/other steps fail. One eternity later Accessibility team is not satisfied with it and starts the whole thing again. So yeah thats easily a 16 hour turnaround in real time if everything goes well. If AI is full-scale at enterprise level and it just works as it works for independent vibe coded projects BA and Business can get the whole cycle done over one call in 30 minutes.

One very Important question for developers: In hackathons, we build A–Z fully functional apps/websites in just a couple of days… But in companies, it takes a whole week just to change a button color. Why? 😂

What movie is 10/10, yet hardly anyone has heard of it?

@Mahi_Patel_07 Sanju doesn't pray for a collapse to prove his worth.

🚨 Jitesh Sharma on Sanju Samson's Success 🚨 Question: If Sanju can do it, Jitesh can too, right? Jitesh Sharma: “Absolutely. It’s a huge motivation. As a youngster and a player, you learn nothing is permanent, not form, not runs, not tough phases. Everything passes. It felt like a reset for me, a revival for my next cricketing journey. Sanju bhai is the best example, you never know. Good things happen to good people. I really admire him, not just as a cricketer but as a person. Seeing good things happen to him made me truly happy.” [Vimal Kumar]

@Adidotdev Why is existing knowledge not even an option !!

Developers: Be honest… How do you ACTUALLY fix bugs? • Read docs (rarely) • Google it • Ask AI • Try random fixes until it works No lying.

@dna Bumrah deserves a stake not raise!!

The BCCI is exploring options to compensate Jasprit Bumrah for the Rs 2 crore loss, given his consistent performances across formats. A BCCI source said, "The board is trying to figure out how Bumrah can be compensated. It is understandable that it would be unfair to slash his fees from Rs 7 crore to Rs 5 crore. There are some other players as well who seem to have moved down a grade despite strong performances. There could be a revision in the valuation of the contracts." Read here: dnaindia.com/sports/report-… #BCCI #JaspritBumrah #DNAUpdates

@ihtesham2005 Yep learning and writing an exam are different. I used to read the books like it were a novel to understand when I had time. Then one night before exams just to answer.

A guy in my college never bought a single textbook in 3 years. Same guy who always seemed relaxed before exams while everyone else was panicking. I finally asked him how. He pulled out his laptop and showed me his Claude workflow. I felt stupid for studying the way I had been. He never once asked Claude to summarize a chapter. His first prompt every semester was this: "Here is my course syllabus and these are the past 5 years of exam papers for this course. Tell me what concepts appear most. Tell me what the professor clearly cares about. Tell me what I can safely ignore." He wasn't trying to learn the course. He was trying to learn the exam. The second thing he showed me broke my brain a little. He'd take the topics Claude flagged and ask: "Explain this like I need to answer an exam question, not like I need to understand it deeply. What's the examiner looking for?" I'd been spending 4 hours on chapters he could decode in 20 minutes. The last prompt he ran the night before every paper: "Based on everything we've covered, give me the 5 questions most likely to appear tomorrow. Then answer them the way a top student would." He'd go to sleep at 11pm. I'd be up until 3am with a textbook I barely understood. He didn't have a better memory than me. He just never confused reading with preparing.

Its just fundamental. When you start a new party contesting alone gives what % he holds. Deputy CM even if offered might or might not happen but even 10% vote contesting alone is leverage . Why take exit strategy in first step instead of keeping options open for long run. The evidence with Vijaykant or seeman also shows people back alternatives even if growth is slow. The moment they partner its just another party.

We need to applaud #TVKVijay‌ for holding on to his stand to contest alone despite attractive offers like #DyCM , all necessary support, 60 to 80 seats etc. If he is able to sustain that stand for this election, we will know in May 2026 the kind of people power #ThalapathyVijay enjoys (vote %), which will set the momentum for 2029 and 2031 elections for his next level in TN politics. Lets wait and see what unfolds in next few days👍

They can actually declare 6 impact players if I am not wrong. In matches when the game is in total control and win is up for grabs they'll let Dhoni come and finish it. It maybe only one or two matches but it is a safe bet which ensures tickets also sell. If it works out who knows thell do another 3 years.

@jm_mcgrath I think it has more to do with above 140 its straight impound. Below that its fines. So people ride their luck.

So uh rented a car for some travel within Ontario this weekend and everyone just does 140 on the 401 now? Did I miss a memo?