Ayush Mudgal

@ngriffin_uk @punit_arani That I can totally get behind!

@ayushmudgal94 @punit_arani nah unless they give orgs some time on paying their contracts. 40% off until they get back to four 9s.

“Low bar set by GitHub” GitHub processes more requests per day than most companies do a year

@bnafOg @EdLudlow Great point!

@ayushmudgal94 @EdLudlow Kimi K2.6 is Modified MIT — commercial restrictions that Qwen3/DeepSeek's Apache 2.0 don't have. AWS adds another legal layer. Qwen and DeepSeek are cleaner for commercial hosting; Kimi K2 on AWS depends on Moonshot resolving those license terms first.

Welcome any questions for AWS

@dexterdake Nowadays companies pivot like 3 times in 2 years.

I met a startup who wants to stay in stealth for two years…

@soham_btw It’s too early to get your day ruined.

2017 is 9 years ago?????

@brettcalhounn Entrepreneurship is the great equalizer.

I'm pro-entrepreneurship, and not afraid to say it. It's one of the few legal wealth creation tools available to people without a head start.

@soham_btw Apple is honestly one of the most bureaucratic companies out there. They even put the most inefficient governments to shame.

almost a month ago we applied on apple app store to get lunel online in europe still not approved this is the type of service apple charges 99 usd a year for btw (also the mail for enquiry gets reply after a week)

@SahilBloom Reminds me of my favorite Pars and Rec quote: “Never half-ass two things, always whole-ass one thing.” Legendary.

It took me 35 years to learn this: If you’re half-in, you’re actually all-out. Even 90% in gets you nowhere. There’s something magical in that last little bit. It's where you unlock new levels to the game. Simply because so few have the courage to do it.

@khushiirl Honestly, is this even that surprising? Their impact is significantly higher.

An average Indian guy working at US-based startup earns more than Amazon intern in India, if I’m not wrong

@vaaselene Yea I use it a ton for my day to day. Also experiment with Gemini CLI from time to time as well.

is anyone using Gemini?

@AnjneyMidha Whatever happened, happened for the good. Whatever is happening, is happening for the good. Whatever will happen, will also happen for the good.

everything happens for a reason

@thedevchandra Skills are commodities for talented people. You can never go wrong betting on raw talent and drive.

still insane to me that non technical founders have as much leverage as technical founders in 2026.

Indian companies are fixing this. @SarvamAI built a special tokenizer for Hindi and Indian languages. They trained on tons of real Hindi data. Now Hindi feels as smooth as English in their models; faster, cheaper, and better at understanding local context. India is closing the “Hindi tax” fast! As someone who grew up speaking Hindi, this makes me incredibly excited. For more info, check out: sarvam.ai/blogs/sarvam-1

@TheIshanGoswami Nooo way. Honestly, for both, I’ll believe it when I see it.

we got gta 6 before claude mythos???

@kzitouni1 Facts; selling is a key part of building

hot take: you're not a founder if nobody knows you. build a personal brand.

This is one of the best descriptions of SF I've seen in a while. It’s inspiring and mind-boggling at the same time. It pushes you to new heights, but there are definitely some fundamental things missing from your experience here. Regardless, one of the most insane places I’ve ever lived in. Love it or hate it, there’s nothing like it in the world.

6 months ago, I moved to San Francisco. It’s the best place in the world to build, and one of the worst places to stay human. My unfiltered take: 1. SF is both overhyped and underrated The overhyped part: there are a lot of people with incredible resumes who are deeply unimpressive in real life. They were at the right company, at the right time, in the right market, and got carried by the wave. They made money, got comfortable, and now spend their time “exploring opportunities” over coffee, wasting your time. The underrated part: the top 1% here is insane. But almost impossible to get. Hiring in SF feels like being a guy on a dating app: everyone you want is out of your league, and everyone in your league wants someone out of theirs. The best people have unmatchable packages, endless options, and are optimizing for maximum impact: labs, frontier companies, or startups raising $100M pre-seed rounds. If you raised $10M from Tier 1 investors, you’re not hot shit here. You’re a B-player. It’s humbling. 2. There are fewer mission-driven people than I expected Especially on the application layer. A lot of people are in “secure the bag before it’s too late” mode. And honestly, it gives me the ick. The real religious builders I’ve met are often in labs, hardware, biotech, deeptech, defense — places where the work is hard enough that you can’t fake obsession. 3. The status game favors builders This is what SF does better than anywhere else. It rewards obsession. It rewards weirdness. It rewards people who make building their entire personality. Europe punishes that. SF gives it status. If you’ve felt like an outsider your whole life because you care too much, work too much, think too radically, or refuse to be chill about things that matter, this city will make you feel less insane. 4. The market liquidity is absurd Even if you don’t build a billion-dollar company, if you manage to build a strong product with a great team, someone smart might still acquire you for $ 100M. Yeah I know, it’s not your dream outcome as a founder, but on the days you feel desperate, it helps to keep going. 5. SF does not care about the meaning crisis that’s coming Anyone paying attention here can feel that something massive is happening with AI. But I’m shocked by how little people talk about the meaning crisis coming next. Everyone wants to talk about AI liberating humanity. Almost no one wants to talk about what happens when work — the thing that gives most people identity, structure, dignity, status, and purpose — starts disappearing. The vacuum will not be peaceful. People are underestimating the chaos that comes from humans suddenly having no idea why they matter. And I really feel like no one cares. 6. Personally, I’ve never been more unhappy I moved to SF and entered the matrix. I’ve always been intense. I’ve always worked crazy hours. But here, I lost the last parts of myself that were not about building. I don’t go to events. Most networking events feel like theater for people pretending to be important. The only events worth going to are small, curated dinners with people who are actually alive. I’ve made 0 real friends. I don’t do well with transactionality. I don’t do well with people constantly performing greatness. I don’t do well with rooms where everyone is optimizing and no one is being honest. So yes, SF is lonely, transactional, delusional, addictive, inspiring, boring, extraordinary, and completely insane. But it is still the only place to be right now if you’re a founder trying to build the next wave of humanity. And for now, that’s enough.

@aaroncbailey @Clara_Gold And honestly, it’s the best answer to the upcoming “meaning crisis.”

@Clara_Gold Church solves this! We got a number of great ones. All my best friends are founders I met from church.

Not sure if I 100% agree with this. There’s a lot of nuance here, to be honest. Just because calculators exist doesn’t mean learning arithmetic is useless. I think it’s invaluable for students to learn how to write code without AI-assisted tools. I believe the need for solid software engineers will only grow, and having good fundamentals is what will set you apart.

to: every CS professor still teaching students to build terminal todo apps the world changed. ur students have claude code now. teach architecture and systems so they can guide the vision building is solved. everything else isnt.

@ashebytes People who constantly talk to their customers always eventually produce great results.

all the codex love is well deserved. codex team has been giving it their all & it shows. has been a delight to lock in with it

@AndrewBenson They honestly can’t go wrong with building their own data centers.

Databricks is possibly in the worst possible position for IPO. They would enter the SaaS market segment right now. Best pivot is probably to build out their own datacenters and become a neocloud. Hard to hang on to the valuation this year.