Ajeet Grewal

@pitdesi One of the things I like about IIT entrance exams was that it’s based on global ranking of students on an objective score. This is obviously not perfect, but it avoids this inversion.

It is harder for Asians to get into top colleges than other races, but it is much harder for South Asians than East Asians.

This is absolutely awful from Giga. If you work there, have a similar experience and are looking for something better, DM me.

@anothercohen Meaning-less

I've never seen so many words that mean absolutely nothing

@rnoweber Congrats!

Excited to share that I’ve stepped into the role of leading all of engineering at Block.xyz. It’s an incredible opportunity to shape what comes next. We’ve got ambitious goals, and I couldn’t be more energized to build and move fast.

@levie What are problems you see, that you wish someone was building a solution to?

More has changed about how I think about work just in the last year than the past 20 years combined. As we’ve been going AI-first at Box, here are a few examples of what I run into. * Bias toward prototypes over a theory or pitch. My general expectation is that we should be seeing working examples of what’s possible or what we’re building far more than just talking about it or just jumping on a white board. * Most projects are “going bigger”. In a world where you can design more, build more, and produce more content, there’s almost no scenario where you end up thinking small in a project. This is happening in marketing, product, sales, and more. Counterintuitively (to some), by AI allowing us to go bigger, we have actually hired in new roles we wouldn’t have justified before. * The lines between classically defined roles are likely going to blur more and more. A designer can now be thinking more like a PM. A product marketer can do much more of the surrounding marketing functions and more. It’s sort of a race to see which roles bleed into others, and then what new types of roles emerge out of that in the process. * I expect way more research to be done for almost any topic. I find myself asking “have we checked how the top 20 software companies are doing X?” in a ton of meetings. The expectation is that we should know vastly more about *everything*. This doesn’t change judgment and intuition, just adds more insight in the process. * I will send off tasks to AI before I bug someone else on something relatively straightforward. If I need a piece of information in the business I can ask Box AI. If I need to research a topic, I can send off a deep research task to an agent. If I want to see a mock myself I can have AI design a quick example. The aggregate result of all of this is just the expectation that everything should move faster and output should go up. We’ve effectively expanded the capabilities of the company overnight. It will be wild to see what this looks like in 5 years from now.

@ashishgoel Congrats to the team! Great job representing 🇺🇸!

All five US participants (including Agastya Goel) won a gold at the International Physics Olympiad. Congratulations to the team and the coaches! aapt.org/aboutaapt/U-S-…

@nikitabier I wonder if simclusters will find these communities automatically!

Share your favorite niche community on X. It can be big -or- small & obscure. And who is the main character of that niche?

With Gemini CLI, and more recently the execution in AI from @Google has been just so amazing. It reminds me of a younger @Meta which would quickly copy and improve features launched by competition.

@pankaj @gilad @yupp_ai Congrats Pankaj, Gilad and team!

1/24 I’m thrilled to share what my co-founder @gilad and I’ve been cooking up over the past year. Check out @yupp_ai – a fun and easy way for anyone to discover, compare and get the best answers across the latest AIs, all for free! Yes, even the most powerful pro models.

@ash_bans Yes, some horror stories where providers speak the tags themselves.

@ajeet I am assuming you have looked into SSML tags?

We often need to tweak emotions in voice agents. For example, I might need the voice to sound more empathetic or more excited, etc. if you have a system that can do this, I would love a demo!

@Austen cc: @ash_bans who is doing a startup in this space.

My kids go to this school. All the academics are done by AI apps + motivational coaches, rest of the day is “life skills.” Checked their data this morning. They’re learning way faster than they were in public school. Six-year-old pacing to end the year two grades ahead.

@code Next edit function does not work well with the vi extension.

Big updates in the latest @code release: ✨ Extend agent mode (now available in VS Code Stable!) with MCP tools ✨ A unified chat experience ✨ Use your own API key to access more language models ...and so much more aka.ms/VSCodeRelease Let’s dive in 🧵

@chris_j_paxton Congrats! Looks amazing!

So I recently joined Agility robotics to help lead AI efforts, and I wanted to share this as one of the first things I worked on: - whole body control, running sim-to-real RL, all day for like 4 days straight at GTC - manipulating previously unseen objects - we bought them monday and put them on a shelf

🎉We’ve been acquired! Excited to build the best voice agents in the world with @btaylor @claybavor and the @SierraPlatform team!

@GergelyOrosz 🙋🏽‍♂️I did this 2 years ago, haven’t looked back yet.

I've not really heard stories about engineering managers switching back to being an IC thanks to a new technology they got really excited about. I am heading this with GenAI, though. Talked with several people who did just this. They all got revitalized!

@charliermarsh I have introduced it to my co and been a very happy user. Great work and keep it up!

uv is on the front page of HN again ("Switching from Pyenv to Uv"). These are the top five comments. The vibes are just incredible right now.

That’s one way to solve build errors 😂

@chris_j_paxton Exciting times!

Two humanoid robotics companies, Figure and 1x, are doing in-home pilots this year

So good to see Ads team killing it at X!