Udayan Walvekar

Unpopular opinion I agree with- learning should not be fun. This blurb from @karpathy summarises it very well.

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GrowthX presents Sarvam Epoch Buildathon 200 builders. 8 hours. ₹3L in cash. Really excited to co-host this with our partners - powered by Lightspeed & supported by Razorpay Apart from the cash prizes, the top 10 teams present their projects at Epoch, in front of VCs, AI Leaders & AI Founders on July 30. ––– About the Buildathon You get 8 hours to build voice, language, document, and multilingual AI products using Sarvam’s AI stack. You can use one product or combine all three. Projects will be judged across four areas: 1/ Technical Depth 2/ Creativity 3/ Impact 4/ Delight ––– Who is this for? 1/ Founders building AI companies 2/ Engineers building models, agents, & products 3/ Product leaders taking AI to large user bases 4/ Researchers & technical generalists 5/ Growth engineers & FDEs ––– How to apply? Click on the link in the thread applications close in 48 hours.

@manthanguptaa 🫂

@udayan_w I figured it out today. It was running with you

They say @manthanguptaa is trying to figure out what makes golden gate memories so good.

@abrilzucchi 💀

“no dating until series M”

@rrkhanna Yess! Jazz night soon :))

Always great catching up with @udayan_w

@brookeleblanc @UseCorgi it's brilliant.

Our cafe is a third space for our community. Been such a wild ride at Corgi so far. Besides being a Cafe club promoter - I do sales, marketing, hiring and ops. Never a dull day. More to come!

@lazyapoorv Congratulations, Apoorv! This is solid stuff.

We raised $5.5M to build an AI hardware interface that knows what you want. The world has changed: we talk to our devices, AI writes our emails, and self-driving cars pick us up. But how we interact with it all, touchscreens and keyboards, was designed for an age of browsing and searching. When we do hundreds of tasks a day, now even more with AI, every unnecessary decision, every step spent navigating instead of acting adds up to real cognitive load. We are building the Hardware Interface, designed for the age of AI. Private Pilot now open. Limited spots. aina.com

Just heard convex being mentioned three times whenever someone asked what's your tech stack. Love it @waynesutton @jamesacowling

@balajis Yes but let's do this in North East or where talent exists but is always neglected by the government. Not delhi, mumbai or BLR.

India is building startup cities.

OMG. This is either going to be great or catastrophic. Love it.

@Teknium I only use yolo mode.

Do you use YOLO mode in your Hermes Agent?

The OnePlus One was probably the best Android phone until the Google Pixel 2 came along. I was among the first 1,000 people to get one, and I still remember how special it felt. I have not felt that kind of magic in an Android phone since. What @getpeid created was a perfect 10/10. The phone broke every pattern: the product specs, insane pricing, invite only launch, cynogen for software, and community. It created the premium budget category.

@GurpriyaSidhu lmao

my hot take is that nusrat fateh ali khan listeners are going to win this decade because not only do they have taste, they also have attention span

this place is like if paper & pie was korean. good only.

@waynesutton @jamesacowling @convex always great meeting you, Wayne! 💙

@udayan_w @jamesacowling @convex Thanks for stopping by!

visited convex to confirm that they don't use feature flags for BE changes. jk @jamesacowling 😆 p.s. just use convex :)

@jamesacowling Interesting. Can you explain why it's better?

If you need to change configs at runtime try to reserve these to just enabling/disabling/limiting APIs, i.e., on service boundaries. If you need to change something inside a service you're much better off restarting the service than reasoning about what happens if a number changes in the middle of a block of code.

Feature flags are great for frontend, usually bad for backend. Only use them when it’s safe to enable/disable them at any time without changing how state is persisted.

@viditchess Should have won tbh.

Didn't make it to top 3 in the hackathon. Pity! But it was real fun building cool stuff :)

@ItzRamanCoder Lots of physio and slow recoovery

@udayan_w what changed at month 9 that finally made it click, or was it just time?

Fitness is therapy. So glad i can run after 9 months