Syed Sadath

@SwatiRKSaha ye baat

events in bangalore should always be free cuz commute costs as much as any entry fee

@arushi_ressl I think salesforce is primarily used by enterprises and you have a high bar to get them as customer (lot of certifications .. etc )

It's safe to say nobody understands Salesforce better than us. As we've gone from configuring Salesforce to configuring agents on top of Salesforce, we've learnt a lot about where agents tend to fail at CRM workflows. Introducing SalesforceBench. If you want to automate a company, a good place to start is the processes owned by their CRM. As an AI services company for real-economy businesses, we spend a lot of time deploying agents that integrate tightly with systems of record like Salesforce. That's hard because: a) agents NEED to leave the SOR in a clean state but verifiability is tough b) every SOR's implementation is different - agents have to derive an understanding of the customisation at runtime by building a model from metadata c) data is almost always unclean, and agents need to recognise what edge cases look like At the end of the day, everything ties back to Salesforce. (Link to blog in comments).

@Akshtjain once you make it to some stable stage you can continue new job and keep it growing along .. Its all worth it for sure if you built the right thing

I left my 75LPA job in BLR 1 year ago to pursue entrepreneurship. Right now I am kinda broke, but I would still say that it was the best thing I could have done.

@arushi_ressl ah , haven't tried codex yet

@SyedSadathull17 cuase codex >> cc and im not rich enough to waste claude tokens on slop that my free chatgpt plan can handle

i give my toughest thinking battles to claude, execution battles to codex and slop to chatgpt.

@ycombinator good click bait

OpenAI is offering $2M in tokens to every YC company in the spring and summer batches. We extended the summer deadline to May 25 so more founders can get in on it. ycombinator.com/apply

@natashamalpani Place details ?

we’re hosting a small breakfast in bangalore next week for founders building at the frontier of AI, science + deep tech. one rule: bring one friend doing groundbreaking work.

@chet_weets You can still choose to be an engineer without a degree .. and senior engineer title at 23 sounds like fishy.. a good company doesn't do that I guess

A 23 year old girl working as a senior software engineer is earning Rs. 1.60 lacs per month Net in-hand salary. I wonder how much she will earn in her 30s and 40s. The only regret in my life is I am not an engineer 😭

@AlexanderTw33ts haha lol

I launched rentahuman.ai last night and already 130+ people have signed up including an OF model (lmao) and the CEO of an AI startup. If your AI agent wants to rent a person to do an IRL task for them its as simple as one MCP call.

@arushi_ressl Agreed , so they know what users are looking for

all ai startups need to be consulting firms first 😳

If your really excited to know the infra behind the vibe coding agents . Then this is for you linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… #Coding #vibecoding #Cloud #lambda #AgenticAI

@samswoora Not sure , how many more iterations it takes for all people to agree on it

Software engineer as a career is coming to a close. It may be 5 years or it may be 10 but we can all feel it, the end is beginning. May we go out in glory, and joy, and celebration for the end of a wonderful industry. We’ll have a lot of fun in these last few years

@samswoora Time to start farewell preparations

Thanks @cursor_ai , genuinely a great product that helped me as SRE quickly iterate over gigantic backend repos whenever needed when dev teams were busy . Ending this year being dependent on IDE's like you .

@ryancarson cool , how about the other way round

Product Managers and Designers who can code well with an agent are going to be the most valuable people in tech in 2026.

@brankopetric00 not really , you probably have not calculated it yet

AI development will become extremely expensive after VC money is burned.

@kmr_dilip you can't keep extreme small packed teams . You need to maybe increase like 10-15% , so you have the right culture . right culture builds the productivity

I tried building three startups and invested in many others. Here’s honest advice. Keep the team small for as long as possible. A few solid engineers, designers, and people who can tell a story are enough to win. More employees create power games you can’t control. Build products customers genuinely need. Make them a paying hostage. Don’t chase investors. They will chase you if you get the above right. The best investments always work that way. Avoid stupid PR and podcast tours. Build your own distribution and own your narrative.That’s a moat money can’t buy. Conferences are overrated and networking is mostly noise. Buy books for your team and meet their families. They won’t remember team dinners, but they’ll remember being respected. Most startup jargon like burn, CAC, TAM was created by people who’ve never built anything meaningful. Real builders focus on profits. Don’t lose money. Don’t follow investor trend reports. Create your own trend. That’s the real power of entrepreneurship. Don’t waste energy arguing online. Build something so good that others point to it for inspiration.

I hope all that happens in our generation itself

@rohitdotmittal Ur comparing an ideal engineer to some failure founder

startups are not the way to make median money many founders think that they can get rich with startups, but it doesn't happen for most people the median founder is poor here's how: big tech engineer over 10 years years 1-2: $200K TC (entry/mid level) years 3-6: $400K TC (senior, L5/E5) years 7-10: $650K TC (staff, L6/E6) total earnings: ~$4M accumulated wealth with 40% savings rate + 7% returns: $2.5M+ probability of this outcome: ~85% once youre in (lower now given all the layoffs) startup founder over 10 years (if the startup survives for that long, most startups shut down after a few years): - salary: ~$130K/year avg (thats $1.3M total) - it's high for seed stage, low for Series A+ - exit probability distribution: 75% chance: $0 (failure) - 15% chance: acquihire/small exit ($500K) - 8% chance: modest success ($5M) - 2% chance: big win ($50M) expected value: ~$2.3M MEDIAN outcome: $1.3M (just your salary, no exit) the median startup founder makes half what a big tech engineer accumulates meanwhile a staff engineer at meta made $800K in 2021 in 1 year i know of the most medicore talent people barely working 6 hours/day making $500k/year - all in (including stock and bonus) startups make sense if: - youre swinging for extreme outcomes - you have non-financial motivations (mostly) - you really want to build something (can't stop thinking about it) startups do not make sense if: - youre trying to make median money - you want reliable path to retirement - financial security is your primary goal (different than becoming super rich) the expected value might look similar on paper but the variance destroys the comparison. one path has 95% probability of success, the other has 75% probability of zero exit pick accordingly

@itsjoaki Then who are the real software engineers?

why do vibe coders consider themselves software engineers?