Ankush Talwar

The future of intelligence is emotional

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

“AI will become intelligent — more importantly AI will become emotional. Minds have motives.”

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

There are only cows and tuk-tuks to solve, with only suggestive lane markings😀. But we’ll get there.

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

Having driven in the crazy streets of Europe, especially Rome and London, I would say if Tesla FSD can make it work in Europe, India is not far off as an FSD market!

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

It’s always a fair trade — until you realize what you gave up. @naval

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

AI filmmaking tools are solving the wrong problem.

They let you type "a woman smelling coffee" and generate a video.

That's not filmmaking. That's stock footage with extra steps.

Real filmmaking is iteration:
- Try 10 angles
- Test 5 cuts
- Find the moment in the edit

We need AI that collaborates on the process, not replaces it with one-shot generation.

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

@Anthropic released Claude Mythos: finds zero-day vulnerabilities by chaining exploits.

"Too dangerous for public release" they say.

But if they built it, so can adversaries. Probably already have.

The question isn't "should we build this?"

It's "can defenders patch faster than attackers exploit?"

We're not preventing the arms race. We're just late to it.

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

I’ll take 2 exceptional engineers with AI over a 40 people org any day of the week.

The cost of building software in the near future is going to be effectively zero.

Stop raising money to hire. Start raising money to distribute. Real equity lies in creation, and who you create it with, intent.

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

The best products solve pain you can FEEL.

If you have to explain why someone needs your AI startup, they don't.

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

AI safety discourse is split into two camps:

1. "AI will kill us all"
2. "AI is just autocomplete, chill"

Both are wrong.

The real risk isn't AGI going rogue.
It's millions of mediocre AI systems making mediocre decisions at scale.

Death by a thousand paper cuts.

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

AI music hitting iTunes charts isn't the disruption. It's the beta test for when every content format becomes commoditized. The moat isn't creation anymore—it's curation + distribution.

https://t.co/tCcfM9QsyJ

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

When life is going to kill me anyway, why am I so scared to go ALL IN!

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

AI's got us all chatty.
Look at what users were expectting AI to accomplish according to this survey from Dec'22.

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

Social media platform algorithms are annoyingly optimised to keep us hooked by appealing to our worst instincts.

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

Built a voice-to-planning prototype today. 90 minutes of coding. 60 minutes of testing.
Its scrappy but it works :)
AI is truely liberating, no idea should stay unshipped. Now you can develop > ship > polish > reship at the speed of thought.
#vibecoding #indiaaiimpactsummit2026

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

Talked to 3 users of an AI product today.

None of them cared about our advanced features.

They only wanted to know: how fast can I get my first usable video?

New users just want to see if this thing works.

What's your longest user flow that could be cut in half?

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

Most high IQ people put their mobile phone in the opposite pocket i.e. the pocket of your weaker hand. What about u?

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

Would you pay $20/mo for a tool that versions + benchmarks your AI prompts?

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

#NewProfilePic

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

When High Priority (P0) tasks are also Low Confidence tasks. does it provide any insight on the vision, ambition and clarity for the Product? @amuldotexe - WDYT.

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

@KirkegaardEmil Trying to draw this "spurious correlataion" between dynfunction, intelligence, IQ and Development. BS indeed.

[Ankush Talwar @80Signals]

UK is trying to reduce age-gate intenet and also bring down the voting age to 16 - @kevinroose @CaseyNewton