Anshul Chennavaram

@sunny_jayaram holy bait

The Berkeley CS graduating class of 2026 just hit the job market. Was chatting with a CS professor last week about placement rates: 879 total graduates. 23 have full-time offers. Twenty-fucking-three. The rest? 127 are doing unpaid "AI apprenticeships" at startups that promise equity. 89 pivoted to product management bootcamps they're paying for with credit cards. 52 are substitute teaching while "building their portfolio." The remaining 103 are driving DoorDash, bartending, or back home with their parents applying to customer support roles that require CS degrees Career services is telling them it's a "market adjustment" and to "stay positive" Same week Berkeley Engineering reported a $43.7 billion endowment increase Two years ago this exact program had a 94% placement rate by graduation. Starting salaries averaged $185k. This year the 23 lucky ones? Average offer is $78k. At companies that didn't exist 18 months ago. Building "AI-native workflows" with teams of 4 people doing what used to take 30. The professors are still teaching advanced algorithms to kids who'll never write a sorting function While recruiters scroll LinkedIn looking for "AI prompt engineers with 5+ years experience" One kid told me his database systems professor just got replaced by a chatbot that grades assignments faster The irony is suffocating

When I was at the Berkeley AI hackathon last year, Delve was one of the companies trying to recruit students. Didn’t know exactly what they did, but still interviewed regardless. During the interview, I asked them what exactly they do and my interviewer said something about SOC 2, compliance, and automating that stuff. I tried getting more details but I didn’t really understand what he was saying, so I brushed it off as not knowing enough about the industry. I find that interview funny in hindsight because wdym the automation is asking customers to dump screenshots into a folder??? Like you could’ve just said that without all the random buzzwords. I guess I’m glad I said I wasn’t interested in compliance at the end of the interview 😭

me when my roommate is getting recruited by a competitor's startup

I feel like the more I learn, the less I really know

everytime i use an ai product, i can immediately tell how good it is based on how gracefully it handles failures.

who do I share this with 😭

@sunny_jayaram /stats on Claude code freaked me out cause I finally understand how Anthropic makes money

Holy shit, I never understood why Claude didn’t let you change models mid-chat (the API is stateless right??) Now I know: the convo was prompt cached *for that specific model* on Anthro servers, so that same request would be way more expensive with a different model

@mihir__arya @3blue1brown this is awesome!

Introducing the first natively-rendered, scroll-driven Manim animations for the web. 🤖 npx skills add rgbmarya/manim-scroll Huge thanks to @3blue1brown for making math visualizations accessible :)

the beauty of college is that you can walk to the restroom, stumble upon your friends randomly auditioning for a choir in a class nearby, try out on a whim despite not knowing it existed two seconds ago nor being in the class, get a part, and suddenly find yourself in a choir class.

@angelinawuuu this ui ⛽️

i made spotify wrapped for goodreads (link in comments)

thank you leapyear 🙏

@kierroth09 @angelinawuuu @vestucla multi-talented fr

hosted a startup cafe with @angelinawuuu @vestucla where student founders could connect while i experimented with being barista to train for unemployment 🍵 love this community 🫶

@angelinawuuu @kylejeong holy cracked

@kylejeong something like that

finally hit the big 500 (ignore the summertime void)

everyone hating on antigravity for being a windsurf wrapper are the same people that have never built anything meaningful in their entire lives. abstractions exist for a reason, it’s what you build on top that matters.

@kylejeong @zolinthecow @sama @peterthiel @kylejeong give me money

@zolinthecow @sama @peterthiel lead this guys seed round

when gpt 5.1 API @sama ?

when i was a kid my dad warned me about caffeine addiction and to never drink coffee and i didn't believe him he was right

@angelinawuuu @vestucla I look so beautiful 🥹

@_a20m_ @vestucla great photo king

trading cards for @vestucla designs --> irl

changing your answer on a quiz last minute against your intuition and being wrong is such a bruh moment