Douglas Vaz

Nobody’s talking about what just happened to Anthropic: Anthropic built the AI that half the US government quietly depends on daily They were deep in a $200M Pentagon deal — one of the biggest AI contracts ever Anthropic drew two hard lines: Claude won’t surveil American citizens, Claude won’t pull a trigger without a human deciding The Pentagon said those lines needed to go. Anthropic said they weren’t moving (respect 🫡) Trump signed an order cutting Claude from every federal agency overnight The Pentagon then slapped them with a “national security risk” designation — the same one they gave Huawei Every classified system running Claude has 6 months to rip it out completely Sam Altman — Anthropic’s biggest competitor — publicly said OpenAI has the same rules and wouldn’t have budged either The US government just punished a company for refusing to let AI kill or spy unsupervised.

@claudeai All those years of refusing to learn excel is about to pay off

Made it to the place that supposedly inspired scenes in Spirited Away. I say supposedly cause the movie still eludes me

Thanks for the smooth check in @yashikapandiyan @airindia

In light of recent events in our industry, we've been flooded with messages and comments around how it's our time to fill the gap and quickly scale 😅 Firstly, thank you for your continued support, love, and belief in @shoffr_in - we'd not be here without it! ❤️ When we started out, I knew we had the 2nd mover's advantage - which is to learn from the mistakes of the first movers. One of the key points therein was unit economics - making the math work. Which then meant choosing the right EV, not going in the charging business, and figuring out the right GTM. It wasn't a grand story, but it allowed us to build a solid core business or "dhanda". And after 2.5 years of running Shoffr, I can say that maintaining quality and balancing supply with demand as we scale matters. For example, it's far more difficult to find quality drivers who will maintain our standards because they are vested in us - and not merely because we're throwing unsustainable money at them. Or if we suddenly add cars and demand doesn't catch-up, we're stressing our cashflows - then it's a downward spiral to offering discounts, slashing fares, and all things that hurt the brand and revenue. Today also we continue to have the 2nd mover's advantage - and in some ways our initial thesis has only solidified. This is a tough, operations heavy space. As we expand, we need to set the right processes in place, balance supply and demand, and maintain healthy financials. If we do this well, empathise with our guests and drivers, and treat all stakeholders fairly - scale is inevitable. We're building Shoffr to be the gold standard of rides. Not the biggest. Not the one in most cities. Not one which raised this much or is valued at X dollars. But as the most loved ride experience there is in India. If you have mobility / fleet experience and resonate with our vision, do reach out - we're hiring in Bangalore across Tech and Operations, including drivers. And to the first movers - thank you for showing us what to do and what to avoid! We wish you well 💙

@chinmay185 @navinpai We've noticed a dip in DEI at in-person events post the pandemic. Agree that there's a conscious effort needed to reverse it, or else I see a huge regression in tech culture

@navinpai Yes, need more women participants for sure. A few did register but didn't show up, probably due to weekday + rains during the event.

For folks who rant about DEI taking away jobs: Tell me what's missing in this image, and why? And do you think it matters?🫠 (Genuinely not a swipe at the organizers since I've met them at multiple events & love the work they do, but if Dev has a problem, Ops has an epidemic) 😿

Hi @OpenAI , you might want to turn off server tokens

@chinmay185 I find the similar issue with programmers who have only worked with relational databases. (But personally I dislike Mongo)

At this point I believe Relational database design is a Achilles heel of GenZ engineers. Mongodb has ruined them all.

Hi @Deliveroo , your app has had a high error rate all weekend. Perhaps a bad deployment on Friday? My sympathies

JUST IN: Boeing offers condolences after a passenger was killed on a Boeing 777 plane, says their “thoughts” are with the passengers and crew. In total 30 people were injured and a 73-year-old British man was killed. The incident happened after the plane fell a whopping 6000 feet. “Suddenly the aircraft starts tilting up and there was shaking so I started bracing for what was happening, and very suddenly there was a very dramatic drop so everyone seated and not wearing seatbelt was launched immediately into the ceiling,” a passenger said. “Some people hit their heads on the baggage cabins overhead and dented it, they hit the places where lights and masks are and broke straight through it.”

BREAKING: Passenger has died and over 30 injured due to severe turbulence on Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 flight from London to Singapore

@QuinnyPig Looking forward to autocompleting everyone’s api keys

Happy Friday - especially to all the on-call devs who had to deal with the GCP outage #qiycz4eo8qffHEFsX7Kp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">status.cloud.google.com/incidents/xVSE…

Jetstar has the nicest flight status page, especially for delays and cancellations, which happens a lot

JUST IN: The ongoing geomagnetic storm has been upgraded to level 5 out of 5, or "extreme," making it the first G5-level storm since 2003. Scientists are warning of potential disruptions to communications over the weekend. GPS, spacecraft and satellite navigation may also be impacted. U.S. utility companies are monitoring the potential threat to the power grid as well according to CNN. The video below was posted by BBC Meteorologist @MetMattTaylor. "This is the astounding view as far south as Switzerland a short while ago… on top of Jungfraujoch," he posted.

Fixed it for you @Apple

Whenever you think you know what the rest of India thinks, remember this.

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@aaroncolaco @glovo @deliveryherocom “It’s a feature not a bug” :P

Wow @glovo. The store adds additional items to my order that I get charged for and you tell me it’s company policy to not do anything about it? This has to be a joke. And it definitely isn’t “fair”. @deliveryherocom #deliveryhero