Software delivery is undergoing its most significant transformation since the shift from Waterfall to #Agile. For decades, the #SoftwareDevelopment Life Cycle (SDLC) has been anchored in deterministic, human-led execution—where experienced practitioners translate business intent into code through manual coordination, documentation, and sequential handoffs. That model has reached a point of diminishing returns.
The #Agentic #SoftwareDevelopment Lifecycle (Ag-DLC) represents a structured evolution from this traditional baseline through five progressive maturity levels, culminating in a #selfoptimizing engineering #intelligence platform. This is not merely about adopting #AI #codingassistants. It is about fundamentally redesigning how software is conceived, built, validated, deployed, and evolved.
Check my paper on Ag-DLC: https://t.co/ouSOJ1s3mE
#LoopEngineering is the discipline of designing, orchestrating, and managing the iterative feedback cycles that govern #AI-agent behaviour. At its core, it asks: how does an AI system observe, reason, act, and learn from the results of its actions?
https://t.co/OSEB39Xlbg
DeepSeek is building its own AI chip to ditch both #Nvidia AND Huawei. US sanctions forced the pivot to Huawei — now #DeepSeek wants total silicon independence. The sanction paradox strikes again. 🔥
Source: https://t.co/N8bgs9rg9d
May be non-left media and general people are realising it now. The free refugee program has backfired. It looks like mostly innocent or good hearted people didn’t leave their countries or couldn’t and became collateral damages.
🌳 A 350-year-old Peshwa-era Mango Tree at Botanical Garden, Aundh Road is under threat for an STP project.
Authorities say it will be “transplanted” — but there is no proven technology to safely relocate a tree of this age and scale.
It is destruction of living heritage. 🌿
🌳 A 350-year-old Peshwa-era Mango Tree at Botanical Garden, Aundh Road is under threat for an STP project.
Authorities say it will be “transplanted” — but there is no proven technology to safely relocate a tree of this age and scale.
It is destruction of living heritage. 🌿
Lenskart cannot respect your bindi.
Not because they hate you.
Because they literally cannot afford to.
Let me show you exactly why.
Peyush Bansal tweeted:
"We are proudly built in Bharat, for Indians."
Beautiful line.
Terrible lie.
Start with the factory.
Lenskart's India plant opened in 2023.
Before that, China joint venture.
That JV still runs today.
Frames.
Raw materials.
Supply chain.
All from China.
Indian factory mostly assemble.
Now look at who owns this "Bharatiya" company.
Peyush Bansal: 10.28%
Neha Bansal: 7.74%
Amit Chaudhary: 0.98%
Sumeet Kapahi: 0.96%
All four founders combined: 20%.
The remaining 80%?
SoftBank: Japan.
Temasek: Singapore.
ADIA: Abu Dhabi.
KKR: New York.
Fidelity: Boston.
Now here is what nobody tells you.
Every foreign investor runs ESG compliance.
Before writing a cheque.
ESG = Environmental, Social, Governance.
A scoring system that has nothing to do with Environment.
Built in New York and Amsterdam.
It decides who gets capital.
Inside ESG lives another animal.
Called DEI.
Diversity. Equity. Inclusion.
DEI was designed in America.
Built on American horrors.
Black minorities.
Gender wars.
LGBTQ rights.
Never designed for India.
Does not understand India.
Here is what DEI scores as "positive":
Hijab at work = Positive signal.
Turban at work = Positive signal.
Here is what DEI marks as risk:
Bindi = Majority religion marker.
Tilak = Majority religion.
Kalawa = Majority religion.
In Western DEI logic,
The majority is the oppressor.
Majority does not need protection.
So when Lenskart's HR writes a grooming policy,
They are not writing for you.
They write for their colonial masters.
Because Lenskart is chasing a $10 billion IPO.
Does your bindi sit anywhere in that number?
Their first customer is not you.
Their first customer is SoftBank.
Their first customer is ADIA.
Their first customer is an ESG agency in Amsterdam.
You buy one pair of glasses.
They invest $500 million.
Do the math on who Lenskart listens to.
Now the government.
You think they don't know?
They know everything.
Every ministry understands how foreign capital
erases civilizational identity.
SEBI approved the DRHP.
Not one clause protecting Hindu identity.
Because the government also wants the IPO.
GST. Tax. Economic headline.
Your kalawa / kada is not in that equation.
This is not a Lenskart problem.
This is every unicorn in India.
Swiggy.
Zomato.
Ola.
Meesho.
Zepto.
Check their cap tables.
Check the ESG reports.
Check the grooming policies in their HR folders.
Every company 60-80% owned by foreign capital
is a branch office of Western values.
"Built in Bharat" is a tagline.
"For Indians" is a marketing campaign.
The policy document tells you who they serve.
Your Bindi.
Your Kalawa.
Your Kada.
Your 5,000 years.
Irrelevant to billionaires chasing an IPO.
But minority appeasement?
That scores points in Amsterdam.
And we call ourselves an Independent Nation.