Krish

Love working on moonshots. Extremely curious. Often optimistic. Always evolving.

Views are my own.

[Krish @Krish_Munot]

@jack Looks super exciting! This would take several months of interations for @SlackHQ to keep up

[Krish @Krish_Munot]

@zxytim Wow! This is huge! Congratulations on the release

[sid @immasiddx]

Someone made a song called “Claude’s Plan” inspired by Drake’s God’s Plan.

The AI industry has PEAKED here. 😭

[Krish @Krish_Munot]

@MicronCEO Happy 4th 🇺🇸

[Krish @Krish_Munot]

This hits close to home. I spent years helping people recover hacked accounts, secure them, and stay safe online. I was always the go-to person when someone's social media got compromised. Today, Meta's AI-first systems make legitimate account recovery far too difficult

[Deedy @deedydas]

Meta's Trust & Safety teams are an unmitigated disaster.

Read this message sent to me by a Meta employee. Search "Instagram suspension" on X/Reddit. It's full of complaints, even after the major account suspensions 3wks ago.

Their core product is falling apart in pursuit of AI.

[Krish @Krish_Munot]

@championswimmer @kunalb11 At this point you need to add this disclaimer on your bio already - Opinions are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer :)

[Rohit @heyrohitai]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Krish @Krish_Munot]

@nikitabier My deepest condolences to you and your family, Nikita!

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

If you're struggling in life, do this:

> final food 4 hours before sleep
> screens off 60 before bed
> read a book 10 min before sleep
> light in eyes when waking
> exercise daily

Do it for 7 days straight.

It works. I promise.

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.

[Krish @Krish_Munot]

@paulg @WalterBright Especially in an attention sucking economy, this seems far more challenging, so I like your framework

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Something I told 14 yo: Once you've prepared sufficiently for exams, switch your focus to "game management." Get enough sleep, keep calm, watch the time, check your answers to avoid dumb mistakes, etc.

[Krish @Krish_Munot]

@sriramk Congrats @sriramk! Excited about your next journey, thank you for your service 🦅🇺🇸

[Krish @Krish_Munot]

@yacineMTB You can take the horse to the lake but you can't make it drink.

You can get a kid to uni but you can't make him think.

[kache @yacineMTB]

you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding

[Deedy @deedydas]

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen.

Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation).

Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there.

Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI.

As a result,
1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb.
Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more.

2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future).
Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire"

3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed.
Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies.

4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either.
No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money."

I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here.

Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success".

Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

[Krish @Krish_Munot]

@tankots @WisprFlow Porche

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

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[Krish @Krish_Munot]

Strangely enough, the most important people on the planet are journalists and editors.
They are the architects of attention and attention is the real currency of power.

[Krish @Krish_Munot]

@elonmusk Step 1: Get rich
Step 2: Become Philosophical and Discover that money can't buy happiness