Krishnan Chandra

@distributionat You are implying sexism here, but claiming that you are quitting because of illness and then going to a competitor instead of taking a break is crazy

People are shitting on Lilian Weng so much. I didn’t see the same reaction for Barret Zoph or Andrew Tulloch. Hmm, I wonder why people would be so cruel to Lilian specifically versus those other guys…

@wh0sj4zzy @kennixonette This is true, IDK why that changed

@krishnanc_ @kennixonette Nevertheless low income and education democrats in the 90s were not named Kayleighlynn

i feel like the more interesting story is why did US republicans start naming their children Kongregation and Breighiaigh because ive never really understood that

LFG this is huge

@BeckyRParks @AlecMacGillis @ShawnMcCreesh Yes, but the home prices shooting up only happened post-2000 for the most part; I grew up in the area and Somerville was known as a pretty dangerous area when I was a kid

@AlecMacGillis @ShawnMcCreesh Is Somerville the only one where the population declined but home prices shot up?

As the native of a small northeastern city that has lost more than a quarter of its population, I wouldn't say that I "love" this map. There is nothing to love about coherent, compact cities that have lost this much. But it's certainly interesting to see who is in this category:

a vc told me startups keep raising because talent is expensive so i asked why talent is expensive and he said everyone has to pay $4,000 rent to live near the office so i asked what happens when rents go up again and he said the startups have to raise another round so i said it sounds like he’s feeding his capital to SF landlords and then he started crying

Everyone should've known Platner was a bad idea when Matt Stoller got such a giant fucking hard on for him

Keys to shipping more: - Fewer meetings - More trust in teammates - Listen exclusively to heavy metal / hardcore / metalcore

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen

Our first launch geared specifically to support accountants is live, but how did Stack get built? In this episode of Ramptables, Victor Pires spoke with Mike Liu, Krishnan Chandra, and Graeme Mounsey on what went into building the AI operating system for today's top accounting firms.

Most software is built for accounting teams. Stack is built with them.

The lesson we've learned time and time again while building agentic products: there's no substitute for deeply, deeply understanding the job. Great read from @ryanlstevens12 and team about how they built Ramp Stack. Before the team wrote a single line of harness code, they talked to accountants, drew out the actual workflows, added every decision point, edge case, and judgement call where two smart humans would disagree or do something differently. That set of evals became our benchmark. Agents are unreasonably effective when you give them a verifiable goal. The benchmark comes through understanding the job. Understanding the job comes from watching accountants work. With this foundation, we built and rebuilt our harness. We learned that 2/3rds of skills were actually hurting performance. We identified where we were overfitting on period-specific data points. Our benchmark lets us compound 1% improvements on decisions that would otherwise have been vibes-based. Month end close will never be the same 🚀🚀🚀 builders.ramp.com/post/stack-ben…

Building and launching this product took hundreds of hours of research, co-building with customers, and renting a robot arm.

We launched a thing! Extremely proud of the Stack team for all the hard work to get us here, and for all the improvements yet to come.

breaking: recruiter in your LinkedIn DMs offering half your current salary + 5 days in office

Heartbroken by the shooting today at the Islamic Center of San Diego. There should be no hesitation for anyone to condemn anti-Muslim hate. Praying for all those affected by this tragedy today.

@mathemagic1an @larsencc @madhavjha Indeed, it’s substantially higher

@larsencc @madhavjha (Top end is not 400k + equity)

Seeing SF comp move in real time is wild. A few weeks ago, inbound was 150-250k base. Now no one names a number below 200k. Top end is 400k + equity. Hiring great people just got harder than ever.

Despite the popular narrative: I believe teams will have to become more technical with AI, not less.

Fuck every single one of you in Toronto who remains silent about this. I’ve been running a little low on non-Jewish friends lately, and this is one of the main reasons why.