akash kulgod

Prediction: In less than 90 days, all channels that we thought were safe from spam & automation will be so flooded that they will no longer be usable in any functional sense: iMessage, phone calls, Gmail. And we will have no way to stop it.

(New Essay) VC-Backed Startups are Low Status The traditional VC-backed startup path is becoming low status in the same way investment banking did. An aesthetic collapse across institutions, ideas, and founders paired with the world's tiring of tech has recently accelerated this shift. Some thoughts on the cascade, the generational divide, Anthropic vs. OpenAI, what comes next, and more.

majoring in cognitive science at the undergraduate level was the biggest mistake of my life. my peers are able to create DCF’s and quote obscure French philosophers, whereas all i can do is tell people that Oliver Sacks books are really good. and nowadays there’s a 50:50 chance they say ‘didn’t he make that all up?’. it’s a dire situation to be in. but things could be worse. i have an acquaintance who majored in biochemistry, and these days she lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, teaching severely under-parameterized LLM’s—trained by vibecoders from the House of Saud—about petroleum engineering. these models do not understand the material, and perhaps do not understand anything at all, but she is paid astronomical sums to perform the useless task, so she continues. her only social media presence is facebook, upon which—every single day since 2019–she posts a different, crudely drawn picture of The Babadook