Aadil Bandukwala

10,000 strong! 🫨 What started with @dhimantn, @ameyakarve & me wondering, “Do others geek out on points like we do?”… turned into this beautiful tribe! ❤️ Thank you for tuning in, coming to Flight Mode, and flying with us! 🫡 This isn’t a flex. It’s fam! 🙌🏻

Plumbing 101 for software developers.

@pranaynigotiya Thank you! 😀

Happy Birthday @aadil !! Have a super year with loads of miles and points 🥳🥳

Air India just slashed award rates across 90% of routes. We're breaking it all down LIVE right now: the sweet spots, the credit card strategy, and what got more expensive. Join us! LIVE! x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

This happened on Instagram. Still processing it. Thank you for your love! ❤️ instagram.com/thegreatindian…

@EvryPaisaMatter @dhimantn Sorry couldn't catch up yesterday @EvryPaisaMatter. Had scheduled meetings at work with folks in the Eastern Timezone. Agli baar pakka! 🫡

What an impromptu catchup... Thanks @dhimantn for taking out time and inviting over. Missed meeting @aadil but then there should be something to look forward to next time. 😏

Is ₹78,000/year worth it for one credit card? Tonight we're going LIVE with a 7-year Amex Platinum Charge Card holder who's extracted every rupee of value. Bring your Amex questions — ALL of them. Join us! 👇 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@harshf1 Macbook or Macbook Pro? If Pro, best if you have Magnus Burgundy. Buy from anywhere and make the most of the AEP.

@aadil Hi, Planning to buy MacBook M4, so wanted to know if buying via Vijay Sales, Croma vouchers from SMARTBUY through INF*NIA is the best way to save, or is there a better way to save more?

The job of a developer is changing. Our CRO, Juan Herrera explains how we're helping companies navigate this transition. We have GTM roles open across APAC and AMER regions to help more companies bridge this gap. Link in first reply to apply.

We're LIVE!. 2026 has been brutal for credit card rewards in India. Amex, HDFC, SBI, Scapia all hit in the same window. What happened, what's next, and what to do with your points RIGHT NOW? Join us, bring your questions. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Let AI be AI. Let humans be humans. When we named Chakra, we specifically avoided human names. No "Ada," no "Meredith," no pretending the AI is a person. The AI runs consistent interviews, and you decide who to hire with signals.

@nghura @jassneetsingha @dhimantn Used it a couple of times. Didn't face any issues.

I feel like this new Shopwise platform (Gyfter 2.0) has launched with poorest execution. Just doesn’t work properly. Pages for certain vouchers takes ages to load. Trying to Swiggy Vouchers Anyone else facing similar issues @jassneetsingha @dhimantn @aadil ?

Anthropic hiring strategy: > The team adds a second engineer only when there's a genuinely new domain that needs dedicated thinking. > One human per domain. An army of agents around them. > If someone can't keep up with code reviews, they don't hire. They automate code review. > Engineer distribution is going bimodal: deep system specialists on one end, hyper-generalists (product-engineer-PM-designer hybrids) on the other. > "Software engineering" as a title might disappears and gets replaced by "building" & Coding will be practically solved for everyone within 6 months

@niyatikh @ameyakarve @dhimantn You can! :)

Hdfc Marriott bonvoy gives 15k points so if we have points from amex can we book a night for 30k points using 15k from the Marriott card or it should be within 15k only. @ameyakarve @dhimantn @aadil #ccgeeks

HSBC T1. It keeps getting better. Our favorite feature added 😏! Cherry on the cake. youtube.com/shorts/ve1MRbT…

We finally made @dhimantn review an Indigo credit card 😈 You can imagine how this went youtube.com/shorts/WEWx7oa…

A few days back, we launched Chakra, our AI Interviewer. 67 customers and developers in person. 1,800+ on the livestream. Here's how it went.

Spent the last 3 months in India. Talked to founders, engineers, executives across multiple cities. Daily life here is ahead of the US in ways I didn't expect. 1/ Payments that actually work Everyone pays with UPI. Street food, auto rides, everything. No cards, no Venmo delays, no "does this place take Apple Pay." It just works. Everywhere. 2/ Quick commerce is real I order groceries and they show up in 10 minutes. Actually 10 minutes. Now when I'm back in the US waiting 45 minutes for delivery, it's annoying. 3/ AI adoption without the hand-wringing In the Bay Area, there's much more discussion around doomsday scenarios with AGI. In India, people just use it - students, business owners, filmmakers. The conversation is "how to embrace it" vs "should I be worried." 4/ An AI ecosystem is being built from scratch Companies like Sarvam are building foundational AI for India. Funds like Activate VC are backing AI-native startups early. This isn't India catching up. It's India building its own version of the AI stack. 5/ The ambition shifted Five years ago, the goal was building a successful Indian company. Now it's building a global company headquartered in India. 6/ GCCs are everywhere India used to be viewed as an "offshore" setup. That's completely changed. GCCs (global capability centers) are strong engineering and R&D centers by global companies. Name a global company and they likely have a presence here - Amazon, Salesforce, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. That said, infrastructure has gaps, regulation is complex, but the slope matters more than current state. Very bullish on India and it would do a lot of good for the US to partner much more with India.

We just launched Chakra on @ycombinator's Launch YC! Check us out: ycombinator.com/launches/PQb-c…

Chess GM @viditchess gave @openclaw access to his WhatsApp. It started replying to everyone as him. We talked about where AI agents are headed next. Full conversation dropping soon.