trillion dollar startup idea $$$
ads in the terminal
every time Cursor generates code
every time Claude thinks
every time Codex runs
you stare at a loading screen
for 10-30 seconds
that's premium ad real estate
nobody is monetizing
you're welcome
अजित पवार यांच्या निधनाची बातमी ऐकून खूप दुःख झाले. महाराष्ट्रासाठी काम करणारा एक चांगला नेता आज आपण अचानक गमावला आहे. पवार कुटुंबियांच्या दुःखात मी सहभागी आहे. ईश्वर त्यांच्या आत्म्यास शांती देवो.
भावपूर्ण श्रद्धांजली. ॐ शांती. 🙏🏽
Very sad to learn about the untimely demise of Shri Ajit Pawar ji.
Maharashtra has lost a dedicated leader who worked for the people, across the state. My heartfelt condolences to his family and friends. Om Shanti 🙏🏽
A close friend of mine, let’s call him Ravi.
Started as a fresher at ₹2.4 LPA.
Then it went like this:
1. ₹2.4 → ₹3.1 (same company, 18 months, learned fast but capped)
2. Switch: ₹6.5 (product role, better team, better codebase)
3. Switch: ₹14 (owned one service end to end)
4. Switch: ₹28 (on-call, scale, real incident reps)
5. Switch: ₹45 (staff-level scope, mentored 4 devs)
6. Switch: ₹80 (remote US, base + bonus)
8 years. 5 switches.
Skills compound, but salary mostly jumps when you switch. The Strategy is simple - work hard, create an impact and then use that knowledge to switch!
Look up to @arpit_bhayani sir 🚀
A reminder that great engineering careers are built step by step:
- Started as a Project Trainee at TCS Innovation Lab
- Joined Saba Software as a Software Associate
- Became a Teaching Assistant at IIIT Hyderabad
- Joined Practo as a Software Engineer → grew into Senior Software Engineer
- Worked at Amazon as SDE II
- Spent ~5 years at Unacademy
Technical Architect → Principal Engineer → Senior Engineering Manager → Director of Engineering
- Joined Google as Staff Software Engineer (Dataproc → Memorystore)
- Co-founded https://t.co/sUikxPTnCV (acquired by Mercor)
- Again Staff Software Engineer at Google (GCP Memorystore)
- Finally resigned from Google day before yesterday
From foundations → scale → leadership → reset.
Excited to see what’s next. 👀🔥
Tailwind lays of 75% of their team. the reason is so ironic:
> their css framework became extremely popular w AI coding agents, 75m downloads/mo
> that meant nobody would visit their docs where they promoted paid offerings
> resulting in 40% drop in traffic & 80% revenue loss
The half-life of software and cs engineering knowledge is ~7 years.
That means half of what you learned 7 years ago is already obsolete or has been replaced.
To just keep up and stay relevant, we need to invest roughly ~6 hours every week learning new things.
It is scary because irrelevance is a real risk - and fascinating because we get to learn much.
No other professional domain has a shorter half-life.
tbh, I don't mind :)