Pramod | Mapping Bharat

Building software by day. Making maps of India & Karnataka from open data by night. Sources on every map. ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲೂ.

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

Not a layoff, it's a buyout - Microsoft opened a voluntary exit offer. ~60k eligible (~27% of staff) in US, Canada, India, UK. Decide by early Dec, out by Dec 31. EM lens: buyouts tend to walk out folks with the most options. Have the retention chat with your best people now.

https://t.co/2ylAfZBn7H

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

@danpdc Same applies to cost, not just quality. Our coding agents burnt through the GitHub Actions budget in week one - no prompt rule was going to stop that. Spending limits, concurrency caps and auto-cancelling superseded runs in CI are the rungs that actually hold.

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

@suraj_sharma14 @mattpocockuk The underrated part: skills are just folders with a SKILL.md, so they live happily in git. I learnt this the hard way - once lost months of bot skills and rules over a lapsed subscription. Now they get backed up to a repo daily. Versioned and portable beats locked into one tool.

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

Practical takeaway for teams: treat AGENTS.md and agent skill files like code. Keep them in a git repo so any new or changed instruction file shows up in a diff and gets reviewed before an agent reads it. And never launch an agent from ~/Downloads - scope it to the project root.

[BleepingComputer @BleepinComputer]

AI coding agents hijacked using AGENTS.md file in Downloads folder
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[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 Ravi Tamta, a BA graduate from Almora, Uttarakhand, has built an electric flying vehicle without engineering degree.

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

Anthropic went from ~2,500 code merges a day in May to 30,000+ a day by September.

Git itself became the bottleneck. So a team of 7 built their own version control system and migrated in 5 months.

When AI agents write the code, the bottleneck moves to everything around it.

[Alex @alexmichael]

Grok Bot 0.77 looks INSANE 🔥

> Calls: your Bot can dial someone, sit on hold, press keys and get transferred while you watch a live transcript

> Messages on Mac: a setup screen under Connect Apps, still switched off

> Tailscale: Grok Bot can join your private tailnet once an admin approves it

> Payments: a screen to connect payment accounts and pick a default, on top of yesterday’s Vault

> Sharing: emails when someone shares a Bot with you, and invites need Premium or Ultra

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

Tiger's Nest, Bhutan.

The trek is steep, the air is thin, and then this view hits you.

Bhutan is beautiful, clean and unhurried. Visit at least once in your life - not for photos, for the peace.

Tip: took me 2-3 hours to climb. Start early, carry water, take it slow.

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

Hard lesson on building with AI agents:

Spent months building bots on Grok Bot - skills, rules, knowledge. Renewed my subscription one day late and all of it was gone.

Your prompts, skills and rules ARE your product. Now I:
- keep every skill and rule in git
- commit daily
- can rebuild on any platform

Own your agent's brain.

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

This is “ಪೂರ್ವ ಜನ್ಮ ಸಂಸ್ಕಾರ “ ..

[Adarsh Hegde @adarshahgd]

Her name is Swarshri Hegde she is 2 years 10 months old. But at this little age only she has made into India Book of Records for reciting,playing 12 taals in Tabala. She is from Honnavara Uttara Kannada Karnataka. Congratulations to little Swarshri 😍👏💐

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

@Anushriya_UX Your website is impressive … good luck

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

@SamVale29 Remote

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

@TVanWelsenes Let’s connect …

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

@mptielemans Good tip, thanks. Going to audit which of ours actually need serial runs. My guess is most of them don't.

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

A year ago, writing code was our bottleneck. We barely touched our GitHub Actions limit.

Now our coding agents push so many changes that we burn the whole month's Actions budget in the first week.

The bottleneck didn't disappear. It moved to CI.

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

Every "AI feature" we build has a shelf life of about 9 months. That's how long it takes frontier models to make it a default.

Build like it's temporary.

[jack @jack]

there is no moat

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

@apbuildlab Let’s connect ..

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

This is amazing …

[Block @blocks]

Meet Dessa, our speech model trained from scratch on human conversation.

Hear it for yourself: https://t.co/FDmoXNPpIh

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

@kankak3455yyy Yes

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

@RoryStandley I am a builder .. let’s connect

[Pramod | Mapping Bharat @PramodMaps]

@mptielemans Yes .. our builds are long running since we have 2k+ test cases . We are now building outside of GitHub actions on a separate build box