Soumyadeep Mukherjee 🏡

It has been >4 years in the Indian Tech industry for me as a software/hardware engineer and I think I can safely say that skill triumphs degree any day. Being a non-CS graduate came with its set of challenges specially during university but the tech industry simply did not care

Sage is helping us be a bit more sagacious.

Anthropic and their role in war and the whole DoW situation is so painfully misunderstood to me. Almost no stake, no dogs in the race etc, so I prefer not speaking on this topic, but here are still some observations nevertheless becasue I saw some tweets today towards the effect of "Claude was used to target bombing of girls, and Anthropic should take access back from the Govt if they have any shame" or shaming Anthropic employees for working there. I am quite disappointed that no one is seeing other problems in this argument like - for sure they used Windows or Mac to run the software? Are you asking the same of Apple/Microsoft employees? - they are using plenty of other 'commodities' in the way, from electricity to computers to sharpies.... how are people who supply "tools" supposed to be responsible for actions of nation-states who just purchased products/services from them Americans need to understand that if they think their government is not aligned morally to their idea of right and wrong, they have to elect better leaders. The bulwark against 'evildoing' by their own democratically administration cannot be on some 'benevolent dictator CEO' position person like @DarioAmodei You are asking too much, and very wrong things from the private company CEO. His role in the world is not supposed to be "hold the moral compass to governments". And as evident, despite how great a job Anthropic has done in building a great LLM in Claude, competing products like OpenAI or Gemini (or others) are not even all that behind, that it will be completely useless as a replacement for Claude. And the provider of the replacement will not necessarily have the same point of view (@sama for example, clearly believes it is not his company's role to provide moral compass to Govt of USA, this is *NOT* an observation of is morals/ethics, it is an observation on what role he thinks OpenAI should be playing, vis a vis the Govt) In fact there is a monopoly on some different services the govt uses (intel processing) - Palantir, whose CEO clearly has a very different moral compass, who is fairly okay with autonomous weapons, killing of people, mass surveillance. But the accountability of what does the current administration do with Palantir's technology has to be with the democratically elected representatives, and not on Palantir, because those are the people you can vote to replace every 4 years. This is not to say that private companies are not supposed to have certain morals/ethics, nor should you stop expecting that from your employer if you are an employee. But whatever you want your country to be doing/not doing, you need to make sure you elect an administration that does that for you. This 'hole' cannot be filled by just 'happenstance' that the CEOs of some critical infrastructure the govt wants to use will these ethics on to them.

Enterprises are now imo primarily bottlenecked on decision makers who haven't grokked this

it's charming how folks are rediscovering decades old (and validated) ideas in software engineering like conway's law, no silver bullet, the mythical man month, tdd, extreme programming...

keep investing in manufacturing, research, ai infrastructure, energy and more importantly - in yourself and the agent economy you can accelerate

@chheplo @IndiaAiExpo I make sure I post images with such things these days to prove it’s not AI. 😋

@dementorSam @IndiaAiExpo Got anything in Dashverse that removes the photobombing back of someone’s head?

Fun chatting today @IndiaAiExpo Also, more fun on a panel with friends @chheplo

As everyone who knows me has heard from me say millions of times - increase the top of the funnel, bottom of the funnel will fall in place.

I’ve always loved social commentary as an art form and of course spend obscene amount of time on games too. Here’s both together from one of my favourite studios @shapeshifterDgt Lessgoo!!

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@NirantK Tu optimist kabse? 🤣

dwarkesh x amodei podcast shifted the vibes for me from eternal optimist to doomer

@srijanshetty @usefaff Invite please. My 24hr started 2 hours back. 😞

I accidentally booked the wrong flight. Asked @usefaff to call Indigo and ask for a full refund because of the '24 hour' DGCA rule. In 2 hours, Indigo cancelled the ticket and 5 days later I have a full refund :)

Vibe coding is the new product management. Training and tuning models is the new coding.

What did our agents ship yesterday?

I've called this out recently on the ken podcast - if we can't figure out a way to pump in billions every quarter, we are going to shift from being among the largest exporters of human reasoning (we export more knowledge work annually than Saudi Arabia exports oil) to a net importer of tokens. We have maybe 3 years to fix this, or our #1 export is going to start to evaporate. And since IT services trades at P/E of 20+ and generates tens of billions of net profit every quarter, there is no other industry in India that is both under existential threat due to AI as well as has the cash to fight back. The window is closing.

@vaibhaw_vipul How do I see demo?

Big day tomorrow! Manufacturing ♥️ AI

Studio quality AI movies at a fraction of cost and time @dementorSam @sanidhya_n

To the product / founding engineers - Build the right things first, then build it right. Critical to enter Iteration Loop early. I see a lot of designers/engineers over-optimising things which don't really matter. Let market forces shape your code and design.

Hosting an AI founders & researchers dinner this week in Bangalore. 15 seats, invite only, some of India's best in the room. We're opening 2 spots for early stage founders: - At idea stage - Deeply technical - Research background DM why it should be you. Founders only.