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Yashraj Shukla

@whynesspower

quit my job to build fulltime | prev @observeAI (YC’18), @hexoai & 4x other YC startups | Built & launched 6 times last year • Fundraising

Bengaluru, India Katılım Aralık 2021
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Yashraj Shukla@whynesspower·
This is me so far in the journey which started two years ago with one dream to bootstrap a company Top Learning: Speed of execution is your only friend when new data changes your reality every week. Can sense the Sun on the horizon, inflection point is near. God bless the hustle
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Prasanna S@myprasanna·
Launching @vorfluxai : The autopilot for software engineering. I was prev co-founder / CTO of @Rippling ($10B) and #1 coder in India. Vorflux is my high octane Ferrari. Every AI coding tool still makes you fly the plane. That's the copilot model: you stay in the seat, approving every turn. The models quietly got good enough to fly the whole route, but the tools never caught up. So we built the autopilot. @vorfluxai raised a $15M seed by @ycombinator @peakxvpartners @alliancedao @parkerconrad @jake_zeller @balajis @nivi @metakovan @lmrankhan @nikitabase @0xrwu @ayushjaiswal @mattshumer_ @eshamanideep @sreeramkannan @dvcoolster @nusimow @TeddySolomon11 @ashtoncofer @rvivek etc Drop your biggest engineering bottleneck below. I'll reply with how I'd attack it with Vorflux, and hand you $200 in free credits to bang out your backlog. Our full thesis 🧵👇
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Yashraj Shukla@whynesspower·
Stats which made YC give us an interview this time: (on our 3 month old product) >$200k cARR >$20k revenue closed two F500 global, four more in pipeline The 10 min call went like bullet and they loved the idea. Too bad could not show enough US traction Untill next time? 💪
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Yashraj Shukla@whynesspower·
@_Lin_inc there is no logical world where it makes sense. i paid my my dad's >$40K debt when i was 23 years old. just lock in harder
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Lin@_Lin_inc·
Caller: “ I have a net worth of about $3 million and my Dad has asked for $55,000 to pay his debt. What should i do?” Caller: My 80 year old father is asking my husband and me for $55,000 to pay off his credit card and car loan debt. Dave: What’s your financial situation? Carla: We’re retired, debt free, net worth between $2 and $3 million but we’re on a fixed income and would have to dip into retirement accounts to do it. Dave: And your husband’s position? Carla: He’s firmly against it. But my dad is very persuasive and I feel guilty saying no. Dave: Carla, the answer is no. You have no moral, ethical, or biblical obligation to fund your father’s bad financial habits especially when manipulation is part of how he’s asking. Carla: But he’s 80 and he’s my dad. Dave: Being your dad doesn’t give him the right to your retirement. And “no” is a complete sentence. Don’t give him an encyclopedia of reasons, he’ll debate every one. Be brief, be gentle, and be firm. Carla: What can I offer instead? Dave: Gift him Financial Peace University. Give him the tools to help himself. That’s generous without enabling the pattern.
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@nikitabier and it's just making me discover people i follow but need to mute now
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Nikita Bier@nikitabier·
We're rolling out a small tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals (people who you follow back). We noticed this data was missing from the algo and it made your friends appear less in your replies. This resulted in the reply section feeling more like a battleground with people you don't recognize. This should also help clusters form around interests more easily, which many people have asked for.
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Akshat@akshathakurr·
Introducing GTM Engine for Claude Code: It's a collection of workflows that turns Claude Code into an autonomous GTM engineer.
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@SkylerMiao7 "No salary until we achieve AGI" means you guys must have concrete KPIs for a model before you declare it AGI. Sharing them soon?
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Skyler Miao@SkylerMiao7·
A letter from our CEO today: Markets will fluctuate, and external noise will come and go, but our direction remains unchanged. Being at the forefront of this industry, we have a clear understanding of the pace of technological evolution and the long-term value we are building together. Starting today, and until the day we reach AGI, I will no longer receive any compensation from the company. Over the next four years, I will allocate shares equivalent to 4% of the company’s total equity from my personal holdings to reward team members who choose to build this journey with us for the long term and create value together. In addition, I will allocate 1% of my shares to establish a dedicated fund supporting the continued growth of open-source communities and the broader AI ecosystem. I will devote all my time, energy, and resources to this mission. This is my long-term commitment as a founder — to our company, our team, and the future we are building together. We will keep going until we get there. Intelligence with Everyone. IO CEO & Founder, MiniMax
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RyanLee@RyanLeeMiniMax

I’m incredibly excited to share this: MiniMax has just closed a new $2B funding round. 🚀 At the same time, our CEO, IO, shared three long-term commitments with the team: • No salary until we achieve AGI. • Over the next four years, he will dedicate shares equivalent to 4% of the company’s total equity from his personal holdings to reward employees who are building MiniMax for the long term. • Another 1% will be committed to supporting the open-source community. The funding is exciting. But what excites me even more is what it represents: a long-term commitment to AGI, to our people, and to the open-source ecosystem. We’re living through one of the most exciting moments in the history of AI, and we’re just getting started. If you’re passionate about frontier AI, open source, and building the future, we’d love to build with you. Intelligence with Everyone. 🚀

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Yashraj Shukla@whynesspower·
@RayanKrishnan Why is it cheap? It should be free If anyway it's gonna be about acquiring user data
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Rayan Krishnan@RayanKrishnan·
Meta made a “minor” release to Muse Spark, there’s nothing minor about it. Lots to parse here: - This model is so fucking cheap I almost don’t believe it. In practice we see it’s 1/10 the cost of both Fable and GPT 5.5. If you thought OS models would compete away margins, just wait till you see this. It’s somehow cheaper to use MS 1.1 than host your own OS model… - Coding improvements are significant. This was a real shortcoming in 1.0. But 1.1 sees a ~50% improvement in VibeCodeBench and ~10% improvement in SWE Bench. Not quite SOTA, but at this cost/latency it is still incredibly compelling. - Speaking of latency, wow this model is fast. Across our benchmarks, we find it to be 1/4 the latency of Opus 4.8 and 1/2 the latency of GPT 5.5. I would expect Meta to have incredible web infra, but really don’t know what witchcraft they’re pulling to host the model for such fast inference at high rate limits. - There is a public API. This is the first time Meta has released a model through a hosted API. I’m expecting lots of AI natives to hot-swap and rapidly test this model as a replacement. We’ll soon see if it's performant enough for those production uses. - Speaking of AI natives, it’s been a wild week for Harvey’s legal benchmark. Grok 4.5 held the SOTA position for ~24 hours at 12% before MS 1.1 unseated it with a big jump up to ~20%. I suspect many internal evals will see surprising results like this. Glad to collab with @harvey @gabepereyra @nikogrupen @ItsJulioPereyra on this eval. - Intelligence is more jagged than ever, even within individual domains like legal and coding. Every application and user benefits from staying dynamic. There an edge in picking the right model/system for each task.
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Yashraj Shukla@whynesspower·
@erenbali @monogram_ai @grok Do a deep research and come up with top five qualities of founders/startups having raise $40M for seed round or more (founders having pedigree, company having $1M ARR before their first check, etc) and then look up if those qualities existed in the founders of Monogram AI
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Eren Bali@erenbali·
It's time to get out of stealth 👋 Today, we are launching @monogram_ai and announcing our $40m seed round led by DST and Lux Capital. Monogram is the first AI app that was built around a visual interface, from the ground up. We created a technology that generates an entire user interface on the fly, in just a few seconds. Ask anything, and instead of staring at a wall of text, you get an interactive visual response.
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@tanmaigo I thought you guys did something else, the fresh capital is on your new pivot?
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Tanmai Gopal@tanmaigo·
We raised $136M to kill Slack. Introducing PromptQL: The first AI version of Slack. Here’s how it works:
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Prajwal
Prajwal@prajwaly68·
some time ago I met @drxddy,@archiexzzz ,@whynesspower in a meetup and I don't think they remember me. These people taught me to not just survive but to be passionate , solve problems and thrive in life. Thanks for inspiring me
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Harsith@harsith2002·
@anthral_labs has achieved parity with human superforecasters on ForecastBench market questions. This was considered the harder subset of the benchmark with @GoogleDeepMind and @xai models lagging superforecasters (albeit closely)
Forecasting Research Institute@Research_FRI

Does parity on dataset questions mean ForecastBench is “solved”? No. On market questions that require judgment about novel, one-off events, LLMs are still behind. Even on dataset questions, the 64.9% achieved by Google DeepMind is unlikely to be the ceiling of what’s possible. ForecastBench doesn’t stop being useful at human parity. It will continue tracking LLM progress even if they surpass expert human forecasters.

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Yashraj Shukla@whynesspower·
@AnthropicAI all 10/10 times i tried to use fable today, it was routed to opus 4.8, even including stuff like how can i form better habits — flagged as restricted "biology work"
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Anthropic@AnthropicAI·
Claude Fable 5 will be available again globally tomorrow. After a series of productive conversations with the US government, we're redeploying the model with a new set of classifiers to target and block more cybersecurity tasks. In the near term, some routine tasks like coding and debugging will fall back to Opus 4.8. We’ll continue to refine these classifiers over the coming weeks to reduce false positives and better distinguish genuine misuse from legitimate requests. We’ve also begun drafting a consensus framework—with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and other Glasswing partners—for assessing the severity of AI jailbreaks and how AI developers should respond to them. We invite other industry partners and model providers to join us in this effort. Finally, we’re scaling up our collaboration with the US government on model testing and safeguards. This will include pre-release access to models and safeguards for evaluation, information sharing on jailbreaks and misuse, and dedicated resources for joint research. Thank you to our users for your patience, and to our partners across the government, industry, and the research community who worked alongside us to make Fable 5 available again. Read our full blog: anthropic.com/news/redeployi…
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Jenny Fielding@jefielding·
Heard about a venture fund where one of the General Partners stopped investing completely to focus on building internal AI tools. Strong belief that the way VCs source, diligence and support founders will be upended. Seems a tad extreme but I also like it.
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David Senra@davidsenra·
AI is going to shift humanity’s focus from Survival Mode to Creative Mode. Cognition CEO @ScottWu46: “ We've been spending all this time living in Survival Mode as a species. Now we're going to be living in Creative Mode.”  ”Minecraft Survival Mode is where you're growing food, you're making sure you're safe from the monsters at night.” “Creative Mode is—everything's up to you. You have all the resources at your disposal. If you want something to happen, it'll happen. The only question for you is: what do you want to make happen?”
David Senra@davidsenra

My conversation with @ScottWu46, founder and CEO of @Cognition, the company behind Devin, the first AI software engineer. 0:00 Scott Wu's Obsession With Winning 2:06 Competitive Programming, Games And Finding His People 4:24 Family, Go, And The Roots Of Scott's Competitiveness 8:35 Why Losing Hurts More Than Winning Feels Good 9:38 What Winning With Devin Looks Like 12:55 Devin Today: The AI Software Engineer 13:52 Software As The Human-Computer Interface 18:45 Why AI Progress Is Hard To Intuit 20:39 Thinking About AI From First Principles 22:57 What Happens When Agents Can Work For Months 30:18 The Original Thesis Behind Cognition 31:12 Launching Devin And Handling Criticism 37:17 Finding Product-Market Fit In The Enterprise 42:41 How Cognition Deploys Devin Inside Large Companies 48:34 Measuring ROI Instead Of Token Spend 50:01 Why Cognition Wants To Be Model-Neutral 52:18 Why Focus Lets Startups Beat Giants 57:14 Independence, Acquisitions, And Building A Generational Company 1:00:27 Why Money Is Not The Goal 1:03:42 One Life: Going For It All Includes paid partnerships.

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Samian@ApplyWiseAi·
@whynesspower trillion params for food delivery feels unhinged lol. what are they actually feeding it
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Yashraj Shukla@whynesspower·
So even the Uber Eats/Instacart of China is releasing a **TRILLION parameter multi model with mixture of experts? 😬
Meituan LongCat@Meituan_LongCat

Introducing LongCat-2.0 🐱 1.6T parameters · MoE with ~48B active · 1M context The full model behind Owl Alpha on @OpenRouter — now available. Built for agentic coding from the ground up: ◆ LongCat Sparse Attention (LSA) — scales efficiently for 1M-context tokens ◆ Zero-Compute Experts — dynamic activation 33B–56B per token, zero wasted compute ◆ MOPD — three specialized expert groups (Agent / Reasoning / Interaction), gate-routed per task How it stacks up: → Terminal-Bench 2.1: 70.8 → SWE-bench Pro: 59.5 (GPT-5.5: 58.6) → SWE-bench Multilingual: 77.3 → FORTE: 73.2 · RWSearch: 78.8 · BrowseComp: 79.9 📖 Tech Blog: longcat.chat/blog/longcat-2… Try it across different scenarios 🧵👇

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Yashraj Shukla@whynesspower·
Reasons to Learn Mandarin (2026) > Papers on ChinaXiv come a week before arXiv > AGI timelines recalibrate every week on Zhihu threads and WeChat groups + some public memos > You can evaluate the 19-year-old from a Chinese lab to know whether to hire him or fear him > "I can speak fluent Mandarin"; a flex of your IQ > The jailbreaks/prompt-injection tricks circulate in Mandarin before the English red teams have a name for them > Qualifies you for "Look at my quant" compliments > Read DeepSeek's 60-page Chinese-only README file & Qwen release notes before the translation thread farms 4k likes > Access the RedNote and Bilibili leak alpha that structurally cannot survive translation into English > You finally understand what 你好 is
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Yashraj Shukla@whynesspower·
@quxiaoyin Would love to see this statement age: “it's unlikely that everyone will pay 100x for Fable when it's 8 points higher than GLM 5.2 and both are solid”
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Xiaoyin Qu@quxiaoyin·
GLM 5.2/Kimi 2.7 marks new chapter in AI: the model itself is no longer the moat. It's good enough for most knowledge work tasks, so ROI starts to matter. When models were dumb half a year ago, we needed the most expensive frontier model to do average tasks, but now many models are smart enough for most things. That's why you see people start talking about token economics and Chinese open source models. Yes, frontier labs will stay frontier, but it's unlikely that everyone will pay 100x for Fable when it's 8 points higher than GLM 5.2 and both are solid. Frontier labs are fighting a uphill battle: they must stay frontier to justify its premium, which they can only stay frontier for 2-3 months(or even sooner). Meanwhile Chinese labs will distill and offer the same frontier level for free. That's why I think we are going to see Codex/Claude focusing more on applications.
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Madhav Chanchani@madhavchanchani·
PocketFM CEO says that current micro drama business model doesn't work as retention is hard. He says category is only scaling due to "aggressive user acquisition budgets, dark patterns and auto-renewal mechanics." "If your business only works because cancelling is intentionally difficult, you don't have product-market fit, you are a marketing arbitrage platform." PocketFM shut down its micro-drama unit, but CEO says it is coming up with something "very disruptive."
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Yashraj Shukla@whynesspower·
@rohanpaul_ai @CLODOAI @vikchuppala @CLODOAI would love to see benchmarks here, if any. I feel almost every neo startup is building some form of this tool internally, evals on exactly how much better you guys are would make me reach my pockets instantly
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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai·
This is really cool. AI is now coming for the most broken search problem on the internet: finding the right person. @CLODOAI is moving the intelligence back to the search query: Describe the person in plain English, search across 1.2 billion indexed profiles, qualify the match, enrich the contact, and surface a way to reach them. People discovery is finding the right humans for whatever you're working on. But most current people search tools sell you access to a snapshot. A frozen moment in time with a CSV at the end of it. Clodo searches the live web, reads the signals, qualifies the fit, and tells you why this specific person, right now. @sixtensor @vikchuppala 👏
Sid Rajaram@sixtensor

Introducing CLODO, trusted by @mercor_ai, @usnews, @UseCorgi, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and more. Describe exactly who you’re looking for, and find them every single time. 1.2B profiles. We find, enrich, and reach out to them for you. It’s that easy. Backed by @YCombinator, @CRV, @daltonc and @paultoo at @Standard_Cap, @louisberyl at Four Cities Capital, @theo, and more incredible angels. Book a demo today: clodo.ai/demo

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@myprasanna @vorfluxai @Rippling @ycombinator @peakxvpartners @alliancedao @parkerconrad @jake_zeller